John S. Blog

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Posted: 12th of December, 2024

While I certainly have an... interesting sense of humour, there is always one joke that sits above the rest in quality. The concept that an item or concept can be invented by a person who named it after themself...

Ever heard of Thomas Running? I don't know when this joke regained popularity, but I accidentally invented my own variation after seeing it in a chat of a stream once (I believe it was Raysfire). The chat message was something along the lines of, "The United States was invented by John S. Unitedstates in 1787."

Or something like that, I probably got the year wrong. I took that and expanded upon it. Sometimes I added strange reasons, such as John S. Adventure, who invented adventuring when he thought exploring wasn't a good enough word for what he did.

Actually, during a Pheeabee stream, I managed to trick her for a few moments with that joke... before I promptly explained the joke and ruined it. (She did say she'll credit me for using the joke though... hmm... (I don't care, I barely even "own" my own variation of the joke anyway.))

Me and my friends then took this joke and expanded it even further, using different middle initials and different first names. One of my characters, John S. Pizza, invented Pizza in the 1990's and has been under lease to not share his recipe anywhere else.

And then... JOHN BACKFLIP. This joke came outta NOWHERE, but instantly took the (barely-existing) credit I had for my own John S. Jokes (which is what I call them) and sent them so far underground you'll never find them. It didn't help that the punchline was FUNNIER than MINE, saying he had a rival, William Front Flip, who exiled him! I could never do something that funny!

But... such is the way of life... (Invented by Gerald J. Life in 1841 when he was tired of not existing.)

I really wrote this to explain that... this joke is suprisingly common? I dunno how there ended up being, like, 3 independent variations of this joke all seperate from eachother, and even then, there's probably more out there!