Sports, Friday, Period 1, Danger Shop

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Hey, you were in the Danger Shop today. Why? Because it was easier to get somebody to program some air hockey tables than it was to order three of them. Also, cheaper.

"You guys know the four classical elements, right? Fire, water, air, earth," Flash said. If that seemed like a fancy thing for him to mention, then you failed to consider what kinds of cartoons he watched when he was young. The fifth element was Heart and it got you a pet monkey. The power is yours. "Well, hockey has three of those: Ice hockey, floor hockey, and air hockey. Unfortunately, we don't have the insurance to play fire hockey." Did that joke work? DID IT?

"It's the middle of summer, so we're not playing ice hockey," Flash said. "And we don't really have enough people to play a good game of floor hockey. But air hockey is one-on-one. The basic idea is that you take the paddle, hit the puck, get it into the goal. The other hockeys are pretty much the same thing at a larger scale. And with fewer air jets."

Comments

Listen to the Lecture

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The four elemental hockeys joke is blatantly stolen from John Hodgman in our world. In 616 Marvel, I declare that Flash made it up.

Re: Listen to the Lecture

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...Well, Kathy laughed at the joke. But then, Kathy's sense of humor ran towards the dad-joke end of the spectrum, so it probably wasn't the assurance the joke was funny that it might otherwise have been.