Not that people having already heard them has ever stopped me from re-telling them anyway.

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    my gf is forgetful as hell so i can just recycle the same jokes/fun facts every 2 weeks

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      My wife is forgetful, and I retell her jokes all the time. I read her this post and made a joke about it at her expense. She got grumpy about it, but I won’t have to worry about that for too long.

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        Reminds meh of that retirement home orderly who abused dementia patients. And he thought it was the perfect crime too.

        That is, until he took an ethics class and chose to write his final paper on whether there’s any real difference between abusing someone with no memory and abusing a simulated character in a video game.

        He still does it but now he’s racked by the guilt. Philosophy: Not even once!

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    Yes. And just like a standup comic, you get to refine them with every iteration.

    Every relationship partner gets to hear a more polished, expanded repertoire, so the more the merrier. :D


    Of course the flipside is when your stories have fallen out of vogue, or you’re cognitively at the level of Grandpa Simpson. Nobody wants to hear that shizzle, man.

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    Are you my ex?

    When we split and then got back together, she retold me all the stories she’d already told me the first time we were together

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    I had an ex once tell me my own story back to me as if it happened to her first hand. I didn’t tell her and just went uh huh. But I think she was confused why I didn’t find the story funny. Which she thought was hilarious when she had heard the story from me.

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    Meanwhile, I’m coming home to my wife like “You won’t believe this! Just heard a podcast about washing machines in Nicaragua that I need to tell you about!”

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    I don’t like that though, being on the receiving end. Thinking about how you’ve done this with other girls. Not a good feeling…