Ultimately,
all "
running jokes" are destined to go
bad. It's a combination of the fact that they are usually
stupid and
pointless, and the fact that the
people who originated them can't help keeping them around well past their
useful lifetime. I'm pretty new to
Everything culture, but so far, this place looks a lot like other
manifestations of humanity - shaped by our unavoidable
penchant to
giggle at and
repeat some
arcane comment
ad infinitum.
(Thank god the people at work have stopped saying "So, I hear the Eels have a new album out" every time there's a lull in conversation. That one was getting OLD. No, I won't explain it, it was never funny anyway. Yes, I did it too.)