Hey look! I made a thing! A compilation of every time Tom Scott made his favorite joke, in Tech Dif content or elsewhere. Well, hopefully every time. @keyrousse and @tomscottstop helped me find ones that I missed.
@70snasagay reminded me of one of the best Gary Brannan lines (and God knows that's saying something). From CN 1x07 — The Counts of Andechs and Motorway Service Stations.
When I was younger everyone cared about Talk Like a Pirate Day. Every September 19th it'd be yars and shivers me timber all the way down, and people took delight in it. Now nobody ever talks like a pirate, on that day or any other. So few of us cling to the old ways. This is where our society went wrong. People not talking about pirates once a year, everything else about society is fine, probably
My favorite pirate joke is “why does it take pirates so long to learn the alphabet? Because they spend years at c” not because it’s THAT funny but because it’s a relatively simple joke that nobody ive told it to has ever correctly guessed the punchline for because they all think it’s gonna be a joke about arrrr