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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Like I said, I'll take his word for it. But basically, what we're saying here is that Ron haphazardly and clumsily threw some words together into a sentence that he just sort of hoped might work as a joke, and just by pure coincidence, that particular arrangement of words did in fact form a coherent, functioning joke that - unintentionally - happened to be utterly horrifying when taken at face value.
Which is... astounding. But I guess that's what happened.
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This happens a lot to people who just aren't comedically sharp/spontaneous. You see it a lot working in IT services because you have this mix of people who are natural talkers mingling with people who generally ... aren't.
Someone in the latter category starts going down the path of what they think is going to be witty banter; this clever riff that'll provoke a sensible chuckle from the other participants, but they quickly realize they're speaking faster than their train of thought is prepared to go. They realize they need to finish this stupid joke quickly and -- before they know it -- what started off as a mundane attempt at a casual joke has crossed four lanes of freeway traffic, missed the exit, and plowed into the ditch. You can see it in their body language.
Usually it just ends up as this kind of awkward remark that prompts someone to let out a weak but polite acknowledgement and someone else will very quickly take back the reins of the conversation. And sometimes it ends up having an unintentionally inappropriate conclusion, because that was the phrasing their mental game of word association came up with to get them out of this mess.