CaptPukeFish 284 Posted December 13, 2016 The ellipsis is used to indicate that something is being mimed, which is funny because we aren't told what the rule is, and are left with our imaginations to picture a mime arbitrarily miming something. It could presumably be a popular reference to a famous line from the motion picture Fight Club, in which we are told the first and second rules of the fight club are to not talk about fight club. However, another level of humor is added to this particular element, because it could very well be that there are two altogether different rules for mime club, and may have nothing to do with talking about mime club at all, and this is just a simple mime club, which I think could be relatively funny. The third element of humor does however assume we are referring to the fight club quote, and so we can read it as "the first rule of mime club is you do not talk about mime club." This is funny because the very idea that a mime is talking is contradictory in nature. Mimes are clowns that don't talk. Fight Club was released in USA theatres in 1999 and stars Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. It is based upon the Chuck Pahluniak book of the same name. 1 Share this post Link to post
