75 Tax-Free Buckeroonies

[Scarfington]

I think I'll have to save this thread for future reference when I end up in an economics class.

[MrGuy]

Unless you get off on just buying blow and collecting it, like some kind of scrooge mcjunkie.

I am laughing way too much over Scrooge McJunkie.

He just makes a pool of it and goes swimming in it every so often.

A pool of cash, blow, or hookers?

Or better yet, a pool of blow which you swim in with hookers.

[Wheeeeeeatthins]

I've come up with the economic solution to the problem regarded here:
knock over a liquor store/Shell station for cash, splurge on as much of both as possible, apply blow liberally with some DMT mixed in and enter a hallucinatory mode where you shrink to the size of tom thumb, take an olypian dive down accompanying hooker's esophagus and then synchronized swim with the singing anthropomorphicised food items in the hooker's stomach

PROBLEM SOLVED
new topic of discussion: The LAFFO curve



This theory states that the efficiency at which a thread brings LAFFS gradually increases over time/thread length until the thread hits a certain point, at which the thread starts to get old and the LAFFS become played-out. If one is at a point on the LAFFO curve before the midpoint of the thread, it makes sense to post more in order to get further LAFF REVENUE. However, if one is at a point on the LAFFO curve after the midpoint, it actually becomes counterproductive--since there will be less LAFF REVENUE overall in the thread, due to the devaluing of jokes contained therein .

So the question: is this thread before or after this point?

e: replaced infinity sign with omega

[MrGuy]

It's not that simple. You're not incorporating discrepancies from new memes, etcetera.

[Mme Sparklecakes XVII]

I think labelling the end of that graph as infinity implies one will never possibly reach the midpoint. Therefore, no joke gets old, ever. Also, while this may be applicable to normal forums, this one allows for new irrelevant topics to sprout from the rotting corpse of a stale one.

[MrGuy]

But that happens here all the time.

[Pinary]

I suspect that the curve looks more like this:



This topic fits this pattern very well- It started with an only moderately hilarious suggestion of "Hookers and blow", and it rose steadily at the beginning of the srsbzns posts, complete with graphs. At a certain point, they began to lose their novelty, and we are now, unfortunately, on the right side of the dotted line. It's still funny, but not nearly as funny as it was in progress.

There is still an upside, though- the first time anyone reads this topic, it's going to be just as hilarious.

[Wheeeeeeatthins]

I think labelling the end of that graph as infinity implies one will never possibly reach the midpoint. Therefore, no joke gets old, ever.

I'm sure you knew this but are just poking holes in the soft spots I left on my theory: but what I meant by the infinity is the hypothetical end of any topic in question. I also wanted to use fun symbols. I now realize that both machinations would better be brought to fruition with the use an omega symbol.
So I updated the graph.

Also, while this may be applicable to normal forums, this one allows for new irrelevant topics to sprout from the rotting corpse of a stale one.

I don't know; some threads have one or two funny moments and then just stink on for pages and pages, therefore burying the funny parts in fecal waste and making it harder for future progeny to reach it. For example, I have been sifting through the archives of the art and geek (music/movies/games) subforums for the treasure thread, and it is much harder to plod through the 100-page threads than the ones whose content is concentrated into 1-4 pages. Of course, "back in the day," most threads were only 1-4 pages and so they hardly ever overstayed their welcome: they were actually on the left side of the LAFFO curve.

Edit: actually this topic started with ThisCrab, so it should have negative LAFFS at the beginning

ZZZZZZING

[Mme Sparklecakes XVII]

A more accurate graph would be more along the lines of - 7x^4 + 154x^3 - 1085x^2 + 2450x + 200. The local minimum being where a new topic forms. (arbitrary units, although 10 pages is usually a good end time for a topic).

[LeCrab]

I think the amount of Laffs received in a thread starts to exponentially decline once people begin analyzing the ratio of laughs:jokes in one thread

[Wheeeeeeatthins]

(kind of what I was getting at)
(except I meant more generally "stop going on about a joke for two pages without adding anything to it." memes work in this way: a joke is repeated without anything being added to it. Over time the joke loses all of its essence and it becomes a hollow body with which one can hide materials in. Since the advent of the internet, south and central american drug cartels have looked into meme technology as a method to create new burriers (burrier = a south-american spawned portmanteau of burro and courier!). In all actuality, no less than 23 minor memes and 3 major memes have been produced and mass-distributed out of the hands of drug runners.)
also it shows that no one knows what the laffer curve is by the absence of replies that are simply "REAGANOMICS"

[MrGuy]

The president has been kidnapped by ninjas. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the President?

[Yal]

I am aware of the Laffer curve, but I assumed you wanted to be taken seriously.

[Wheeeeeeatthins]

I am aware of the Laffer curve, but I assumed you wanted to be taken seriously.

five-point-boner-exploding tongue trick

[Shadow of the Lotus]

I'm just going to take a leave and point out that I love your current avatar Wheeeeeeathins.

[Juneiger]

I would like to say that the LAFFO curve is an oversimplified equation, Gankro's mathematics seem to be much more acurrate.

I would also like to add that i would purchase a 75 dollar luxury thank you card for my distant relative as part of a passive-aggressive psyco-campaign.

[Schazer]

I'm bumping this thread in an appeal to get it Forumfiled.

It may not be as old as the stuff from the Gangbunch days, but I'm still rather fond of it.

[tynic]

Suggestion accepted! (actually a few people suggested this, clearly it has wormed its way into the MSPA unconscious).