{"id":147,"date":"2009-03-17T08:19:17","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T15:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/?p=147"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:34:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:34:21","slug":"tuesday-march-17th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/tuesday-march-17th\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, March 17th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Poor Lucky Me,<\/p>\n<p>If some one steals your joke and makes it funnier, you have to concede.\u00a0 It&#8217;s like that joke has found a better home and you have to let it go and be free.\u00a0 But what about when some one steals your joke and makes it suck?\u00a0 Do you say something?\u00a0 Is there a finite number of jokes I might come up with, and therefore must guard each one?<\/p>\n<p>What do you do?<\/p>\n<p>Signed,<\/p>\n<p>Clownish in Appearance and Behavior<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dear Clownish,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bad news I&#8217;m afraid.\u00a0 Once you release a joke into the atmosphere, it no longer belongs to you.\u00a0 Trying to keep tabs on it, or claim it, just makes you seem crazy.\u00a0 When people steal and mangle your jokes you should commit to making funnier, louder, dirtier jokes than most normal people are willing to steal.\u00a0 That&#8217;s what I do. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Click on the song below.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t imagine a better articulated summery of what really matters in life:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bAjcbiCcFlI\">Rush- Entre Nous<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sincerely,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Poor Lucky Me<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Poor Lucky Me, If some one steals your joke and makes it funnier, you have to concede.\u00a0 It&#8217;s like that joke has found a better home and you have to let it go and be free.\u00a0 But what about when some one steals your joke and makes it suck?\u00a0 Do you say something?\u00a0 Is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/tuesday-march-17th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tuesday, March 17th&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3838,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/3838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}