A Joe in the Bush

As one does.

Is that a Yes?

Doesn't brushing your teeth make sweet things nasty?

That rep rank is incredibly rare, congrats, and try not to get upvoted!

TL;DR: The jokes was Bait and switch Gallows Humor.

There's an old saying about assumptions that goes "You know what they say about assumptions: You make an chull out of U and ME" Because chull, U, and ME spells out Assume. This saying means that when you assumes something is true without evidence, you're often wrong, and mess everything up for everyone.

I took the first part of the saying: "You know what they say about assumptions: You make---" And then an extreme ending onto it. I set up an expectation for something slightly funny, but switched to gallows humour.

The joke comes from the juxtaposition of the lights amusement of the original phrase with the gallows humor or everyone dying because you messed up.

the emoji serves as punctuation and emphasis of the desired expression and emotion felt by the reader. a blank 'What' face, due to their confusion because of the bait and switch.

Twilight went further, playing off of another old joke. "That's what they say" is an old phrase. some people have made the 'They' into a joke. Who is the 'They'? Why do the 'They' say such things? That joke is simply in taking a metaphorical phrase literally. So twilight reacted literally to my metaphorical joke, extending the humour.

When you replied that you didn't get it, i replied with 'Good. You'll live longer' calling back to my original joke. Because you didn't assume what the joke was, you won't be one of the corpses of people who assume, like Twilight will be, if this joke was actually literal.

Good. You'll live longer that way.

Dang it. I hate being cliche.

Alright, hope you catch them.

Really? That's never something I've run into. I've had to explain mice to younger kids, but never people older than I.

I love how un-tech savvy some of the younger generation is.

Why does this status have three upvotes?

Aren't they related to poisonous plants or something? (I feel like I've read that line before. . .)

Yup.

Your profile picture.

I never said you weren't Rarity.

So, I said you don't look like Rarity.

I found it.

. . .

I ignored all signatures a long time ago, and haven't figured out how to unignore them. . .

There's a cosplay thread? Link?

Strange, you don't look lie Rarity.

But, when you lose at friendship, do you lose at life?

Hey Kipper, you can upvote status now.

Go to account settings, then on the far right, click notification settings. But I don't recommend it. All it does is drive you crazy with curiosity about who's upvoting your stuff. Elbereth.

I was wondering if it was you. Were you also the one who upvoted my Oceans rise Empires fall status?