If you have scene/read the play, what are your opinions/thoughts/interpretations?
I attached only one I could find on YouTube - lmk if you have a better link.
Thanks!
hey reddit, my short story club is looking for recommendations.
Here's our list (google sheets) of the 300+ stories we've discussed over the last year. We hope it's useful because we've recorded:
-length of each story (in words and minutes)
-our average rating out of 4
We love literature and have eclectic tastes. We see merit in every story. Please recommend:
-unforgettable short stories
-famous stories (most talked about/studied, stories you were forced to read in school especially outside of USA/Canada)
-quintessential stories that provide a solid introduction to an author's work ("if you read one, read this")
We know about the "Reddit's Top 200 Short Stories" thread by u/compiles_for_fun. We're working out way through it. We also peek at internet lists, university syllabi, anthologies, etc.
Here's everything that scored 3 or more with us.
| / 4 | TITLE | AUTHOR | YEAR | MINS(250 WPM) | WORDS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.00 | The Stone Boy | Gina Berriault | 1957 | 19 | 4691 |
| 4.00 | Bullet in the Brain | Tobias Wolff | 1995 | 8 | 1930 |
| 3.89 | He-y, come on ou-t! | Shinichi Hoshi | 1989 | 5 | 1370 |
| 3.88 | Six Feet of the Country | Nadine Gordimer | 1953 | 19 | 4670 |
| 3.88 | The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas | Ursula K. Le Guin | 1973 | 11 | 2820 |
| 3.83 | What You Pawn I Will Redeem | Sherman Alexie | 2003 | 27 | 6780 |
| 3.75 | The Husband Stitch | Carmen Maria Machado | 2014 | 33 | 8144 |
| 3.75 | Walking Out | David Quammen | 1980 | 45 | 11130 |
| 3.75 | Tale at Sea | Peter Stevens | 2021 | 9 | 2170 |
| 3.71 | Shooting an Elephant | George Orwell | 1936 | 13 | 3290 |
| 3.71 | At the Anarchists' Convention | John Sayles | 1979 | 14 | 3560 |
| 3.67 | A Temporary Matter | Jhumpa Lahiri | 1998 | 29 | 7185 |
| 3.67 | How to Pronounce Knife | Souvankham Thammavongsa | 2020 | 7 | 1740 |
| 3.63 | The Yellow Wallpaper | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | 1892 | 24 | 6078 |
| 3.63 | The First Thing the Baby Did Wrong... | Donald Barthelme | 1987 | 3 | 800 |
| 3.63 | Cat Person | Kristen Roupenian | 2017 | 29 | 7206 |
| 3.60 | To Build a Fire | Jack London | 1908 | 28 | 7100 |
| 3.60 | Learning to be Me | Greg Egan | 1995 | 24 | 6040 |
| 3.57 | River Crossing | Jack Living | 2020 | 33 | 8280 |
| 3.57 | The Paper Menagerie | Ken Liu | 2011 | 20 | 4925 |
| 3.50 | The Tell-Tale Heart | Edgar Allen Poe | 1843 | 9 | 2144 |
| 3.50 | Going to Meet the Man | James Baldwin | 1965 | 30 | 7430 |
| 3.50 | Candle Cove | Kris Straub | 2009 | 5 | 1170 |
| 3.50 | CivilWarLand in Bad Decline | George Saunders | 1996 | 28 | 7050 |
| 3.50 | A Hunger Artist | Franz Kafka | 1922 | 16 | 4090 |
| 3.43 | Galloping Foxley | Roald Dahl | 1953 | 23 | 5642 |
| 3.43 | Perv Jungle | S |
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB
Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"
I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual
So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes
r/unclejokes for dirty jokes
r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC
r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes
Punchline !
Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub
Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat
Do your worst!
How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?
Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.
But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.
They were cooked in Greece.
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?
Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"
Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.
And now I’m cannelloni
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
But that’s comparing apples to oranges
And boy are my arms legs.
So I was rewatching the series and realized that this scene (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iikafjdaYI&t=60s) is a reference to a playwright by Susan Glaspell called "Trifles". I don't know if it actually is a reference, but if it isn't that's just a funny coincidence. Play is one of my favorites and it may be a 20-minute read.
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
but then I remembered it was ground this morning.
Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale
Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments
They’re on standbi
A play on words.
My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.
Pilot on me!!
Nothing, he was gladiator.
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
Or would that be too forward thinking?
