Have you ever actually seen someone slip on a banana peel?

Yes, but he fell and hit his head - later that day he died in the hospital. So, it wasn't really the funniest thing I'd ever seen. Just kidding.

What about "yes, and it wasn't funny"?

I have seen someone slip on some spilled beverage and fall backwards while holding an entire tray of food and drinks. It was hilarious.

LOL good survey :)

I have seen it once, it was pretty damn funny.

I think there should be an option for "Yes, and it wasn't that funny," but in reality, it was, in fact, one of the funniest things I'd ever seen, simply *because* it was a banana peel.

yes but it wasnt that funny. what kind of survey is this?

No, but it reminds me of my kids' favourite joke:

• Q: What do you call two banana peels?
• A: A pair of slippers.

i have to admit, i have, and i was, in fact, one of the funniest things i had ever seen at that point in my life. i am sure that the lunch lady didn't feel that way though...

Yes but it was not very funny?

I think I have gone into this before... but consider most any joke or 'funny' thing. now think about it from the perspective of the person who is experiencing it. would you want to be them? no. why do we laugh? because we are not the person experiencing the pain. I challenge anyone to come up with a 'funny' instance that wasn't the result of someone else's pain, physical or emotional. in the case the person experiencing the 'emotional' pain, he may not feel it or understand why he is being laughed at.. but you would feel it or know it if you were in that position. back to the question.. is a person slipping on a banana peel funny? yes.

Only in the movies. There is a giant banana peel gag in "Sleeper" & there is a banana peel gag in "Hot Shots, Part Deux" too.

Ok, so I'm 8 years behind on the joke, but that just made me snort with laughter!

Wow, you're really scraping the bottom of the barrel survey-wise... bored?

Procrastinating! I should be working on my application for medicine... but I'm not feeling inspired at the moment. And then I realised that I could get a list of All the surveys on SC, so I've been working my way backwards through them. There are some real gems, and some that are very dated

And it's great to see how the people who were there at the beginning and are still here now have changed.

If you have any insights into how I've changed, I'd love to hear it.

...it is pretty interesting to have history that goes back so far. I've been on-line a while. Once I found someone I wrote in '89 on a mailing list I was on. Amazingly, I thought it was a pretty cool thing that I was saying. Though, it was a little hard to believe I actually wrote it.

You seem a lot more private in the old surveys than you do now - much more introverted in your answers. You appear less likely to give the very honest and frank answers that you often seem to now. You also seem to give far more sarcastic, flippant or plain outrageous (and very funny) comments now than then (although, on the basis of this survey, that element was certainly there in your comments back then)

You just appear a lot more confident now, and assertive.

I'll keep my eye out as I move through the surveys So far the only current (or relatively recent) users that I've encountered are you, jen, romkey, Pomeranian, daver, phi, dab, pandora and they; but I seem to have now hit a few surveys with comments by mandy and Wicksy. I just answered a survey asking where people were and about 75% of users were in Boston - amazing how the distribution has changed! I'll be interested to see when other users that I remember/see here now turn up.

It's also a fascinating archive of current affairs. There was a survey from '98 asking when the Pope would die, with the latest prediction in the options being 1999! And there were a few on relations between the US and Iraq back then. And also the usual sex and drugs surveys that seem to be a recurring theme I'm still pre-qual in my march through the SC archives though, so there are some really bad surveys (and I can't believe how low all the ratings are on the first couple of hundred surveys - there's barely one with a rating over 50%).

I shall keep plodding on, and let you know if I have any more thoughts

Wow, I would have thought that you'd say I've become worse than I was... hm, maybe you're just being polite. If so, thanks (and keep it up) I think I generally feel like I've become more cynical and even harsher (less compassionate) than I was.

Yeah, a lot of the original users were people I knew near me around Boston. It can be a little sad for me to look at old surveys because they often show how many people I've lost touch with... Well, it's their fault. They stopped using SC!

hm... low ratings on old surveys... interesting.. I wonder if that's because of someone messing with them. It's likely that there wasn't a rating system, so most votes would be 50% by default... maybe, I'll check on that... I've had a few cases where someone marked a great many surveys bad, even using more than one account, in order to affect survey ratings.

I'd be keen on hearing anymore thoughts you might have. I love history.