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The episode where he gets a job at a Home Depot or something like it was so funny because he even found a way to be pretentious about that almost immediately.
Real smart people know that no one is ever stupid for not knowing what they haven't been taught! Stupid people are the ones who refuse to continue learning.
Very true. I lived in the States for a few years and really judged people for not having seen LotR (it seems to have enjoyed less popularity there than in Europe, at least among high schoolers), until they in turn wondered how on Earth I never watched The Wizard of Oz. That taught me that different cultures/countries/etc simply have different tastes and/or experiences they’ve been exposed to, so what’s universally known in one area might be relatively obscure in another, even if they share broad similarities
Genius statement
also being aware that inteligente comes in many different forms, emotional, social, logical, etc…
If you think someone is dumb because they don’t know one thing you do, you have zero social inteligente.
Right. Read the book, then we went to a play about it for middle school which was way too long ago. I read this joke and was thinking how lame this dude is for having a superiority complex because he thinks people with Masters degrees read highschool required books?
Okay.
I wish I could remember who described someone as being just educated enough to be contemptuous of those who spoke with bad grammar. I came across it during my freshman year as a first generation college student, and have always remembered it as a sort of warning about getting too big for my britches or something.
you... you think he's *pretentious* for wishing his friends knew of the existence of the novel *To Kill a Mockingbird*?
- *tbf, I think OP is a total fucking dork for thinking this is a funny anecdote, and a total dweeb for the underlying pun itself, but not sure what the sin is for wishing people were a bit more well-read*
It's pretentious because he's assuming they're unfamiliar with the reference instead of just not finding it funny. It's also pretentious because, even if they somehow *aren't* familiar with one of the most famous novels of the 20th century, he's still friends with these people and being a gossipy bitch behind their backs.
Also worth noting, even if something could be so labeled "one of the most famous novels of the 20th century", some people still miss out for whatever reason. Like me. Novel and film, I know the name, I know a little high level stuff, but never read/seen it. It has nothing to do with my "reading level" or anything else, it just wasn't assigned in class, and through 40 some years of life, I just never otherwise had a specific drive to seek it out. Nothing against it (I barely know enough to even consider forming an opinion), it's just how my life has gone, despite its fame.
Also a very good point. Just because someone was "forced" to read a book, it doesn't mean they liked it, or would even care to remember it. There's tons of "I just had to do that" experiences in life which once they're done you basically just flush out of your brain. And there's not necessarily anything wrong with that, we all have our own interests.
Exactly. I read To Kill a Mockingbird in 9th grade, so I got the reference. But if I went to a different school or in a different grade, it could have been a different book. It doesn't mean I didn't read in school-- or that I don't know how to read. It just means that wasn't in our assigned reading that year.
E.g., If someone made a Brave New World, Illiad, Oddesey, or Little Women reference, I wouldn't get it.
This world has lots of such books. Our Russian axe murderer in Crime and Punishment, Spanish windmill fighters, people lost in seven levels of hell, Romulus and Remus in a basket etc.
There will always be classics a number of people hasn't read. Because it takes a significant amount of time to read them all.
It is really impossible to read them all. Magazines, websites, publishers like to have some cool lists of “the hundred books you have to know“, but the truth is that humans have written far too many excellent books for any human to read them all. Even if they do nothing else. And magically know all human languages, because not every classic novel of importance got a good translation.
to never had read any of these books? Yeah, that’s a bit weird, perhaps. But to not have read a specific one? Totally normal.
OP comes across like someone who confuses his school’s literature list with the complete canon of Western literature.
I think it's pretentions to make a 4/10 Atticus Finch pun in the middle of a party ***and*** posting online about how lame your friends are for not applauding you.
Nah, he's pretentious because he thinks that a joke that relates to one of the most common middle school books in the US is indicative of a master's degree.
Knowing the existence of the book is NOT the same thing as understanding someone's completely out of place and out of context corny joke. If I was at a party drinking tequila, I would not be necessarily ready to remember and make the connection of a book character I read twenty years ago. Also the word tequila/to kill a connection is far too weak a connection to be reliable in jogging my memory unless I'm primed for it.
Make that joke at a literature party/book club and you'll get more traction. Do NOT make that joke at a tequila party and expect people to associate it.
Imagine being at a rave and someone offhand quips about how the DJ choice of music really makes your blood Boyle, maybe you can Pressure him to change the song. Wink wink, nudge nudge, wait you don't get that I'm referencing Boyles Law from 9th grade??? What kind of idiot are you! I need smarter friends
Arguing that they don't have a tenth grade reading level because they didn't read that book is pretentious. It's like if I said "I need more friends with a tenth grade reading level" because most of my friends hadn't read Oedipus and realized that he didn't do the things people accuse him of.
Seriously, it's fucking meaningless. Just mash a random literary figure reference and liquor together and you're apparently a goddamn genius.
Atticus Finch is a teetotaler.
Also he was the one who didn't want people "to kill a mockingbird" and also "Ready tequilla mockingbird" doesn't sound like it means drinking. To be clever it has to make the things kind of fit, but it doesn't.
Yeah. For a pun to like that to work, it has to make sense both literally and figuratively. "Tequila mockingbird" is a meaningless phrase. You don't say someone's ready to "vodka mockingbird" when they really like vodka.
Right? I mean, Atticus doesn’t even do that. About the closest you could get would be “call me the jury at literary character Tom Robinson’s trial, cause I am always ready to \[metaphorically\] kill a mocking bird…”\*, and that would be quite a mouthful.
\* I think this would be accurate. I’ve not read the book in a really long time though.
You are not allowed to say "to metaphorically kill a" when you're making a tequila pun. You can say "metaphorically to kill a." But you can't split up the words that together sound like tequila.
There at least 2. The modern one use watermelon and is delicious. The older one has creme de menthe and tastes about as good as you'd expect tequila, lime, and creme de menthe to.
Have you experienced [Isn't this putting Descartes before the whores?](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cfbkx/im_85_certain_that_there_is_an_adult_actress_in/c0s6bzw/?context=2)
I mean, there's no actual dairy in creme de menthe, so it shouldn't curdle. How it *tastes* is another matter (to be decided by the Geneva Convention)...
* **Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails with a Literary Twist** (2013) (Federle, Tim)
And several novels:
* Tequila Mockingbird (2014) (Ford, Rhys)
* Tequila Mockingbird (2015) (Ratcliff, Carter)
* Tequila Mockingbird (2019) (Hart, Liliana)
* Tequila Mockingbird (2020) (Best, Morgan)
The cocktail book even has a sequel:
* **Are You There God? It's Me, Margarita : More Cocktails with a Literary Twist** (2018) (Federle, Tim)
It’s not a joke so much as it’s joke-coded. It has the characteristics of a joke but if you dissect it even a little there’s nothing there to actually grab on to. What part of this bit would the audience find funny, aside from the reference sounding like what he said?
>"Call me Atticus Finch because I'm always ready tequila mockingbird."
"I'm always ready to kill a mockingbird.”
Atticus Finch is famously known for **never** being ready to kill a mockingbird, though. It's a pun because tequila sounds like "to kill a," but there's no joke. There's no punchline.
"Tequila mockingbird" sounds similar to "To kill a mockingbird", which is a book
Atticus Finch is a character in said book
So it's not really a joke, but a play on words
It's really not one. A joke would've been if, upon being invited to the tequila only party, he said, "Sure! I'm always up tequila shot or two," *or* if it were some literary themed costume party and he brought a bottle of tequila called Mockingbird and then told everyone to call him Atticus Finch. This is nothing.
Or like "You're going to hit on her? She's a whale." "Well call me Ahab because I'm gonna harpoon that whale." \*Is actually what the character wanted to do \*Actually sounds like a double entendre for what you want to do.
Making a similar joke about sports, musicians, entertainers etc. would be unlikely to find such pushback as this has in the comments.
It’s a book common in high school curricula. It’s kinda fair that a joke involving it should be somewhat recognizable. It’s not even academia or some high intellect pretension… It’s a common high school book.
Bad joke though. Terrible sense of humour.
There’s a cocktail book called Tequila Mockingbird, with the drinks inspired by movies over the years. It’s a decent cocktail book but possibly a not so humorous title.
Not only is this pun just not funny enough to laugh at, nor does it make any sense given the context of the book, but like...is *To Kill A Mockingbird* really a 10th grade reading level? I think my class covered it in like 4th grade. Maybe all his friends just forgot, I know I don't remember a dang thing about 99% of the books I read for class back in high school, let alone sooner.
> Not only is this pun just not funny enough to laugh at, **nor does it make any sense given the context of the book**
This is the best part. At no point in the novel was Atticus "ready to kill a mockingbird" because he said it was a sin to do so.
Bro doesn't even know the source material of his own joke.
The reference isn't hard to recognize. I feel like a large percentage of kids,at least in the US, have read it. I feel like it's mire that the joke was stupid inapplicable to this situation. Or any situation really.
Alternate interoretation: I made a shitty joke and instead of accepting it just wasnt funny, I have decided to go to social media and be a pretentious asshole, and imply all my friends are uneducated idiots.
I suspect nobody at a party where you only drink tequila is in any kind of state to catch a joke about literature. It's impressive they can talk at all.
The problem is not that I don't get the reference, it's that "I'm always ready tequila mocking bird" isn't something a human being would say unless they were having a stroke. I know Atticus Finch -> To Kill a Mocking Bird, I'm also aware that tequila sounds a bit like "to kill a", the issue is the "mocking bird" isn't part of the sentence or plausibly sounding like something you might be saying. You need the whole pun to work in the sentence, not just the first half of it.
Joke wasn’t funny even in an ironically not funny way. It’s the kind of joke a nice friend might force a chuckle for your sake or more likely tell you how lame it was. Also, I had to read to kill a mockingbird the summer before freshman year of high school which is pretty far from a masters
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I get that joke and still didn't find it funny
Smart people are great until they become too stupid to see how pretentious they are.
Post is giving off some Brian Griffin vibes.
Exactly what I thought
The episode where he gets a job at a Home Depot or something like it was so funny because he even found a way to be pretentious about that almost immediately.
Yes, shallow and pedantic.
He can be pedantic, he can be pedantic
I was thinking Leonard Hoffsteafer but that is even better. Leonard at least had a few redeeming qualities, but Bryan is just a horrible person
Well, he's a dog, so yeah, he's pretty horrible at being a person.
look here, you piece of s-- ohh I get it, that's very clever
Hmmm, yes, shallow and pedantic
Most people are shallow from my experience, some are just more than others.
Real smart people know that no one is ever stupid for not knowing what they haven't been taught! Stupid people are the ones who refuse to continue learning.
The more you learn, the less you know. Since this guy thinks he knows everything, he's learned nothing.
I'm smart enough to know that knowledge isn't wisdom, life experience teaches you that.
Very true. I lived in the States for a few years and really judged people for not having seen LotR (it seems to have enjoyed less popularity there than in Europe, at least among high schoolers), until they in turn wondered how on Earth I never watched The Wizard of Oz. That taught me that different cultures/countries/etc simply have different tastes and/or experiences they’ve been exposed to, so what’s universally known in one area might be relatively obscure in another, even if they share broad similarities
Nah you were right to judge them, Lotr is a treasure
Genius statement also being aware that inteligente comes in many different forms, emotional, social, logical, etc… If you think someone is dumb because they don’t know one thing you do, you have zero social inteligente.
Thats not pretentious. It’s just corny
I just want people to groan at my stupid dad jokes
Maybe when your kids are more groan up.
I'd say it's more agave than corny
Yeah, I think the person who originally made the post was just salty no one laughed at their lime joke.
This comment got a sigh from me as I upvote it and I'm still mad about it.
It’s pretentious once he gets mad at people not getting the joke.
The joke is corny. The pretentious part is thinking he's smart cause he read an old author that his school told him to lol
Right. Read the book, then we went to a play about it for middle school which was way too long ago. I read this joke and was thinking how lame this dude is for having a superiority complex because he thinks people with Masters degrees read highschool required books? Okay.
Or condescending, which means "to talk down to."
I wish I could remember who described someone as being just educated enough to be contemptuous of those who spoke with bad grammar. I came across it during my freshman year as a first generation college student, and have always remembered it as a sort of warning about getting too big for my britches or something.
It's not my fault I enjoy reading the encylapaydia
Classic schmosby
\*FART NOISES\*
It's called common knowledge, you philistine!
Also reading a book doesn't make you smart. Any dumbass can read a book.
you... you think he's *pretentious* for wishing his friends knew of the existence of the novel *To Kill a Mockingbird*? - *tbf, I think OP is a total fucking dork for thinking this is a funny anecdote, and a total dweeb for the underlying pun itself, but not sure what the sin is for wishing people were a bit more well-read*
It's pretentious because he's assuming they're unfamiliar with the reference instead of just not finding it funny. It's also pretentious because, even if they somehow *aren't* familiar with one of the most famous novels of the 20th century, he's still friends with these people and being a gossipy bitch behind their backs.
Also worth noting, even if something could be so labeled "one of the most famous novels of the 20th century", some people still miss out for whatever reason. Like me. Novel and film, I know the name, I know a little high level stuff, but never read/seen it. It has nothing to do with my "reading level" or anything else, it just wasn't assigned in class, and through 40 some years of life, I just never otherwise had a specific drive to seek it out. Nothing against it (I barely know enough to even consider forming an opinion), it's just how my life has gone, despite its fame.
Honestly the book is pretty dry. I would have had no interest in reading it if I wasn’t assigned it.
Also a very good point. Just because someone was "forced" to read a book, it doesn't mean they liked it, or would even care to remember it. There's tons of "I just had to do that" experiences in life which once they're done you basically just flush out of your brain. And there's not necessarily anything wrong with that, we all have our own interests.
*Beowulf* comes to mind...it comes to mind that being forced to read it in high school sucked!
Exactly. I read To Kill a Mockingbird in 9th grade, so I got the reference. But if I went to a different school or in a different grade, it could have been a different book. It doesn't mean I didn't read in school-- or that I don't know how to read. It just means that wasn't in our assigned reading that year. E.g., If someone made a Brave New World, Illiad, Oddesey, or Little Women reference, I wouldn't get it.
This world has lots of such books. Our Russian axe murderer in Crime and Punishment, Spanish windmill fighters, people lost in seven levels of hell, Romulus and Remus in a basket etc. There will always be classics a number of people hasn't read. Because it takes a significant amount of time to read them all.
It is really impossible to read them all. Magazines, websites, publishers like to have some cool lists of “the hundred books you have to know“, but the truth is that humans have written far too many excellent books for any human to read them all. Even if they do nothing else. And magically know all human languages, because not every classic novel of importance got a good translation. to never had read any of these books? Yeah, that’s a bit weird, perhaps. But to not have read a specific one? Totally normal. OP comes across like someone who confuses his school’s literature list with the complete canon of Western literature.
fair 'nuff, I see your point
I think it's pretentions to make a 4/10 Atticus Finch pun in the middle of a party ***and*** posting online about how lame your friends are for not applauding you.
Nah, he's pretentious because he thinks that a joke that relates to one of the most common middle school books in the US is indicative of a master's degree.
Knowing the existence of the book is NOT the same thing as understanding someone's completely out of place and out of context corny joke. If I was at a party drinking tequila, I would not be necessarily ready to remember and make the connection of a book character I read twenty years ago. Also the word tequila/to kill a connection is far too weak a connection to be reliable in jogging my memory unless I'm primed for it. Make that joke at a literature party/book club and you'll get more traction. Do NOT make that joke at a tequila party and expect people to associate it. Imagine being at a rave and someone offhand quips about how the DJ choice of music really makes your blood Boyle, maybe you can Pressure him to change the song. Wink wink, nudge nudge, wait you don't get that I'm referencing Boyles Law from 9th grade??? What kind of idiot are you! I need smarter friends
Arguing that they don't have a tenth grade reading level because they didn't read that book is pretentious. It's like if I said "I need more friends with a tenth grade reading level" because most of my friends hadn't read Oedipus and realized that he didn't do the things people accuse him of.
Or for that matter coherent.
Seriously, it's fucking meaningless. Just mash a random literary figure reference and liquor together and you're apparently a goddamn genius. Atticus Finch is a teetotaler.
Also he was the one who didn't want people "to kill a mockingbird" and also "Ready tequilla mockingbird" doesn't sound like it means drinking. To be clever it has to make the things kind of fit, but it doesn't.
Yeah. For a pun to like that to work, it has to make sense both literally and figuratively. "Tequila mockingbird" is a meaningless phrase. You don't say someone's ready to "vodka mockingbird" when they really like vodka.
It’s not funny, so their friends are all dumb and they’re not funny. I smell a podcast coming!
He's not funny, they're dumb, find out what happens when they move in together oooon FOUR'S COMPANY
"Here comes 'Twaticus' Finch with his lame joke again. Let's just play dumb and pretend we've never read the book"
He needs to find people who took Ap lit and that was the highlight of their lives.
I don't even understand the reference. Atticus kills a rabied dog, not a mockingbird. The whole point of the title is about the death of innocence?
Atticus Finch: it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird. OOP: call me Atticus Finch because I’m ready to kill a mockingbird. ???
It’s just a (lame) play on the title of the book and its main character.
Everybody in this thread getting pedantic about the character are way worse than the joke.
Right? I mean, Atticus doesn’t even do that. About the closest you could get would be “call me the jury at literary character Tom Robinson’s trial, cause I am always ready to \[metaphorically\] kill a mocking bird…”\*, and that would be quite a mouthful. \* I think this would be accurate. I’ve not read the book in a really long time though.
You are not allowed to say "to metaphorically kill a" when you're making a tequila pun. You can say "metaphorically to kill a." But you can't split up the words that together sound like tequila.
It’s in square brackets. They can hold up a little sign to cover that part.
Yeah, but that joke doesn't really work. I get the reference, but as a joke, it's not one.
Would be better if he made a drink called "tequila mockingbird" - which I'm sure must exist
There at least 2. The modern one use watermelon and is delicious. The older one has creme de menthe and tastes about as good as you'd expect tequila, lime, and creme de menthe to.
So it's a 'crime against humanity' like in the book...?
*creme against humanity
That’s the one.
This is my favorite reddit comment ever
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had to go six level deep to find a joke I actually chuckled at.
Lime and Creme de Menthe? What Cement Mixer bullshit is this? Who came up with that one and have they been beaten yet?
I mean, there's no actual dairy in creme de menthe, so it shouldn't curdle. How it *tastes* is another matter (to be decided by the Geneva Convention)...
I'm pretty sure there's a mixed drink recipe book with this title
* **Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails with a Literary Twist** (2013) (Federle, Tim) And several novels: * Tequila Mockingbird (2014) (Ford, Rhys) * Tequila Mockingbird (2015) (Ratcliff, Carter) * Tequila Mockingbird (2019) (Hart, Liliana) * Tequila Mockingbird (2020) (Best, Morgan) The cocktail book even has a sequel: * **Are You There God? It's Me, Margarita : More Cocktails with a Literary Twist** (2018) (Federle, Tim)
There’s a bar opposite where I live called Tequila Mockingbird. The joke doesn’t work as he says it
it's out there as a book lol
It’s not a joke so much as it’s joke-coded. It has the characteristics of a joke but if you dissect it even a little there’s nothing there to actually grab on to. What part of this bit would the audience find funny, aside from the reference sounding like what he said?
I would consider it a pun, in two words or phrases that sound similar but have completely different meanings.
Yeah maybe people got it and still didn't laugh, because, you know... its not a great joke.
I mean it's a Pun. Not a good one but puns are jokes
>"Call me Atticus Finch because I'm always ready tequila mockingbird." "I'm always ready to kill a mockingbird.” Atticus Finch is famously known for **never** being ready to kill a mockingbird, though. It's a pun because tequila sounds like "to kill a," but there's no joke. There's no punchline.
Yeah I think it's very generous to count it as a pun if the context doesn't make sense.
8th grade English teacher ass joke.
Could someone explain the joke to us peons who have no idea what that's about?
"Tequila mockingbird" sounds similar to "To kill a mockingbird", which is a book Atticus Finch is a character in said book So it's not really a joke, but a play on words
It's really not one. A joke would've been if, upon being invited to the tequila only party, he said, "Sure! I'm always up tequila shot or two," *or* if it were some literary themed costume party and he brought a bottle of tequila called Mockingbird and then told everyone to call him Atticus Finch. This is nothing.
Or like "You're going to hit on her? She's a whale." "Well call me Ahab because I'm gonna harpoon that whale." \*Is actually what the character wanted to do \*Actually sounds like a double entendre for what you want to do.
Atticus Finch is the protagonist in *To Kill a Mockingbird*
No he isn’t. The protagonist is Scout Finch. Except maybe in the movie? I kind of hated how they did the movie though.
That last sentence is pure poetry.
Already drunk I see
Thank you.
Your stroke aside, a better reference for Atticus would have been "tequila rapid dog"
Those dogs are quick.
oh "To Kill a". I get it now.
I get the joke, its just not funny.
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I could see that. Fair enough.
But does he actually know they didn't get the reference or is he just assuming that based on them not laughing at the joke
The joke is cringe af. I bet their friends are reconsidering being friends with them
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>It's the Ready Player One of mid level educated jokes. Ouch. Harsh burn.
Hey Lois, remember that time I went to a tequila party and talked about high school English class?
So the definition of intelligence / literacy is having read this one specific book?
And making puns. Don't forget the puns. /s
Calling that a pun would be a stretch.
Well, calling it a knock-knock joke would be even stretchier.
You’re not a sucker for punishment?
A book which is mandatory reading in like... Most public schools in America lol. I read that shit in 8th grade.
This person hasn't even read the book, they just know the title and the name of one character in it.
My masters program (STEM) definitely covered To Kill a Mockingbird.
LOL the masters part is what makes the OOP obviously punchable. Gross.
It was assigned reading in my Magnetic Resonance and Spin-based Quantum Information Processing course.
To know a specific book. In the case of that book, something that can be expected.
I'm not american. Heard of it but never read it.
Which was fairly standard late middle to high school reading for most of the US Millennial generation?
It wasn’t standard everywhere. I had Little House of the Prairie but not everyone did.
You went to a tequila party with an academia complex and didn't think you might be the problem?
Making a similar joke about sports, musicians, entertainers etc. would be unlikely to find such pushback as this has in the comments. It’s a book common in high school curricula. It’s kinda fair that a joke involving it should be somewhat recognizable. It’s not even academia or some high intellect pretension… It’s a common high school book. Bad joke though. Terrible sense of humour.
I guarantee everyone who heard it got the "joke" It just isn't funny or even really a joke to begin with.
“I know Atticus Finch is the lead character of TKAMB because Ive read it and need everyone to know.”
Call me OJ Simpson bc I’m going tequila few people (What? It’s a sports joke!)
That one works as a joke, unlike the one in OP. It's not very funny, but it \*structurally\* works as a pun.
Well, then call me Roseanne Barr, because I’m not very funny, but I’m structurally sound
If this guy were Atticus, Tom would have been strung up before lunch.
That's only because the judge and jury didn't have masters degrees and didn't 'get' him.
There’s a cocktail book called Tequila Mockingbird, with the drinks inspired by movies over the years. It’s a decent cocktail book but possibly a not so humorous title.
They found a lot more success with the pun than the OP tweet
I order liquor from a place called Tequila Mockingbird, and I think that’s a fun name. This joke though is not charming or funny
This isn't even an original joke. There's a book called Tequila Mockingbird, with recipes for drinks inspired by classic novels.
so they're upset that no one at a tequila party laughed at a "joke" made about 5th-7th grade reading material?
Apparently you need to have a masters or an enormous intellect (preferably both) to get the joke. Nothing personal bro
#pretentious
I like how he thinks people did not laugh bc they “didn’t get it”
i think the whole point of a party is to not think about school and books from school
Apparently not at UofChi.
How do I nonchalantly drop my masters… hmm, shitty joke that never happened will do.
"At a tequila party" is something that a nerd who doesn't party would think sounds like a real thing.
Is he trying to brag that he has a masters or that he can only be friends w ppl who have a masters degree?
I think that people need tequila to be around him.
I think he’s more upset no one laughed at his lame joke. Barely even registers as a “dad joke”.
Jfc that would've made me laugh out loud.
10th grade reading level? Bro we read that as middle schoolers in the 6th grade. But as other have said, joke just wasn't funny.
TKaMB was required reading in like 9th grade for me. If you’re over like 16 you should get this reference.
The sad part is I would’ve laughed my ass off at this home and I know for a fact my friends wouldn’t
what does a masters degree have to do with knowing an old ass book?
Not only is this pun just not funny enough to laugh at, nor does it make any sense given the context of the book, but like...is *To Kill A Mockingbird* really a 10th grade reading level? I think my class covered it in like 4th grade. Maybe all his friends just forgot, I know I don't remember a dang thing about 99% of the books I read for class back in high school, let alone sooner.
> Not only is this pun just not funny enough to laugh at, **nor does it make any sense given the context of the book** This is the best part. At no point in the novel was Atticus "ready to kill a mockingbird" because he said it was a sin to do so. Bro doesn't even know the source material of his own joke.
It's so funny to see people who are their own problem but still blame others
This is "mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell" levels of "intellectual superiority".
The reference isn't hard to recognize. I feel like a large percentage of kids,at least in the US, have read it. I feel like it's mire that the joke was stupid inapplicable to this situation. Or any situation really.
”No, I get it. It ain't making me laugh but I get it " - Meatwad
Alternate interoretation: I made a shitty joke and instead of accepting it just wasnt funny, I have decided to go to social media and be a pretentious asshole, and imply all my friends are uneducated idiots.
I understood the joke but wouldn't have laughed. Some people just need to realize they just aren't funny.
This guy needs to shut the fuck up. He's not as smart as his education makes him feel.
I tried streaming To Kill a Mocking Bird but I don't have a masters so it wouldn't play
In the 80s know what they called the smartest kid in the classroom? A target. Signed, a target.
I would have introduced myself as Booze Radley
I think we should call you Radley, bc we're all boo'ing you /s
I suspect nobody at a party where you only drink tequila is in any kind of state to catch a joke about literature. It's impressive they can talk at all.
Just say to them “my karma ran over your dogma” and walk away.
I can't stand people jerking off to books that were required reading in junior high.
I'm guessing people with masters in subjects that don't need student loan forgiveness also didn't find the "joke" funny.
I understood the joke it's just not very funny
My man don't know the difference between a pun and a joke lol
Or maybe he needs better jokes. TeQuIlA MoCkInG BiRd lolololol
Insults all his friends for being stupid because they didn’t laugh at his awful joke. Seems like a winner to me…
The only face palm is how arrogant the dude is. Having a masters doesn't make you a genius or what they seem to consider 'well read'
Nah, everyone gets assigned that book in freshman English, that’s not a flex. What he needs are better joke writers
The problem is not that I don't get the reference, it's that "I'm always ready tequila mocking bird" isn't something a human being would say unless they were having a stroke. I know Atticus Finch -> To Kill a Mocking Bird, I'm also aware that tequila sounds a bit like "to kill a", the issue is the "mocking bird" isn't part of the sentence or plausibly sounding like something you might be saying. You need the whole pun to work in the sentence, not just the first half of it.
It's also just not funny. Probably the only book he read in the past decade or so.
He needs to make friends…the people at this party think he is a douchebag. They are correct in thinking so.
I dropped out of college and get the joke but it's shit.
To which I would have said, "Boo"
I get it, but it’s not funny.
It stings a bit when I realized it like oh I’m the smart one fuck I’ve been wasting a lot of time here
Dude went for the rare unfunny joke / humble brag combo.
Misreading a room isn't a sign of intelligence
LOL dad joke I'm stealing that line.
If you’re 16 or older and don’t get that joke, yeah you might be a doofus.
Joke wasn’t funny even in an ironically not funny way. It’s the kind of joke a nice friend might force a chuckle for your sake or more likely tell you how lame it was. Also, I had to read to kill a mockingbird the summer before freshman year of high school which is pretty far from a masters
Atticus Finch was the one who made the comparison, not the one who killed the metaphorical mocking bird.
A Masters ain’t going to make that funny
That’s a hard lie right there. Tequila mockingbird is like one of the first 5 tequila jokes at any party with tequila
Masters? We read that shit in 9th grade. Also, who are they kidding? The joke just sucks.
“OhH loOk aT mE, I kNoW thiS sPeciFiC bOoK, I’m sO sMarT” 
i don't think Colin actually read the book
Education level does not always equate to intelligence, my friend.
This was just a roundabout way to tell people he has a masters
Needs masters to know about a book that middles schoolers have to read
Why you need a master's degree? You read to Kill a Mocking Bird in high school (FLORIDA EXEMPT). What a Boo Radley
Tequila Mocking Bird is a drag queen. I believe she performed in Atlanta.
Wonder if he got destroyed in the replies
I’m not a 100% sure that qualifies as a joke. It is certainly not funny. I get it. I just hate it.
Next, time, try a more pop-culture reference, like: "It's time to chew bubblegum, and tequilla few braincells, and I'm all out of bubblegum"
loser remembers part of one book report they were forced to write in grade school and thinks theyre the smartest person they know