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* What do you call a constipated German? "Far-from-poopin'" ("[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrvergn%C3%BCgen Fahrvergnügen]]" was an advertising slogan for Volkswagen, loosely meaning "The joy of driving").
* Jeffrey Dahmer, the [[ImAHumanitarian cannibal]] SerialKiller, provoked quite a few of these after he was caught in 1991.
** What did Jeffrey Dahmer say to Lorena Bobbitt[[note]]A woman who made headlines in 1993 when she [[GroinAttack cut off her husband's penis]][[/note]]? "You gonna eat that?"
** Did you hear Jeffrey Dahmer escaped? He was sighted [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege heading to Waco]] with a 55-gallon drum of barbecue sauce.
* On a related note, the Waco siege, in which a Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas entered a 51-day siege with the FBI and the ATF that ended with the place burning down after the FBI tried to stage an assault, also provoked [[http://www.runningpage.org/drears/humor/waco.html a few of these.]]
** How do you pick up Branch Davidian chicks? [[BlackComedy With a DustBuster.]]
** What does "Waco" stand for? [[FunWithAcronyms "We ain't coming out!"]]
* Dozens of [=Y2K=] jokes were only relevant in 1999.
* UsefulNotes/AugustoPinochet is eating in a French restaurant when he finds a hair in his soup. He complains to the maitre, who calls for the waiter: "''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltasar_Garzon#Augusto_Pinochet Garçon! Garçon!]]''". Pinochet replies: "Okay, stop! I'll eat it".
* UsefulNotes/BillClinton steps off of UsefulNotes/AirForceOne with a pig under each arm. The young marine at the door says "What's with the pigs, Mr. President?" Bill says "These aren't just 'pigs', these are Arkansas Razorbacks. I got one for Hillary, and one for Chelsea!" The marine says "Good trade, sir!"
** How does the White House's doorbell sound? ''CLEEN-TONNN!''
** Bill and Hillary are driving through rural Arkansas, they pass by a used car dealership. "That's funny," Hillary says. "That dealer has the same name as an ex-boyfriend of mine." "Just think," Bill says, "if you'd married him today you'd be the wife of a used car dealer." Hillary looks at him for a moment. "No." She says. "If I'd married him today I'd be the wife of the President of the United States."
* Although he first gained notoriety in the late '80s, the '90s marked the peak era of "Kevorkian jokes", which were essentially a modernization of the old "[[SeenItAllSuicide well, now I've seen everything]]" jokes of yore. (Less humorous variants with characters often remarking to "keep Kevorkian over there away from me" or "if X ever happens to me/if I ever end up like that, call Kevorkian" were even more common.)
* Because of TechnologyMarchesOn:
** "Daddy, why doesn't this magnet pick up your floppy disks?" The joke being that floppy disks, as a type of Platform/MagneticDisk, would be destroyed by magnets. As of 2016, magnetic portable storage devices have been almost completely phased out in favor of flash-based devices like USB drives, which are immune to this sort of erasure.[[note]]At least for private users. Many institutions collecting vast amounts of data, like NASA or CERN, still use magnetic drives for archival since it still has better longevity.[[/note]] While magnetic hard disks are still prevalent on many desktop and laptop computers, they too are slowly being replaced by solid-state drives.
** A school aide calls the school's IT support and says, "The classroom's computer isn't working anymore." "What was going on when you first noticed this?" the IT guy asks. "Well, I was deleting some folders left there from other departments, and when I deleted one from the Spanish department, I started having problems," she says. The IT guy scrunches his face in confusion, and says, "The Spanish department? Do you remember what was the folder was called?" The aide smiles and says, "I remember that it was a number in Spanish. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS DOS]]."
* The context of this joke makes it not very easy to get for modern audiences:
** A basketball player from Bosnia was drafted to play with the Los Angeles Lakers. He came home and told his mother the good news.
--->She replied "So what? What about the facts that our home was just looted, your uncle was killed, and your brother was just shot?"\\
"That's all awful," he replied, "but what does it have to do with my signing?"\\
His mother angrily snapped "None of this would've happened had you not brought us to [[WretchedHive LA]]!"[[note]]Substitute for a currently-impoverished African nation, and a Rust Belt city (Cleveland, Detroit, Pittsburgh) and it does still work.[[/note]]
* The following joke plays on similarities between the pronunciation of years and times in 24-hour time (meaning that the year has to be in the 1940s or 1950s, as in 24-hour time 1959 is succeeded by 2000. It also casts the man as having been in his 20s or 30s in the 1950s, which puts him in his 60s or 70s during the 1990s, already at the plausible end of life regarding his libido, and at some point his age will become unreasonably high).
** A widowed ex-Army officer's new girlfriend starts encouraging him to share his sexual history with her, and boldly asks him one day "When did you last have sex?" The officer proudly says "1954, my young chickadee." She responds by kissing him, then standing up and taking off her clothes. While relaxing post-coitus, she remarks to him "You've got wonderful love-making skills for having had such a dry spell!" He looks at the bedside clock and says "It wasn't that long ago, it's now 1100 the following morning."
* While out for a walk, Saddam Hussein finds a bottle half-buried in the sand. Curious, he opens it up, and out pops a genie. The genie offers him a wish, but Saddam rebuffs her, saying she can't get him anything he doesn't already have. The genie insists, saying she'll be sucked back in if he doesn't make a wish. Saddam responds with "okay, if it'll make you quit your bitching, I wish to wake up tomorrow morning with three American celebrities". The next morning, Saddam woke up in bed with Tonya Harding, Lorena Bobbit and Hillary Clinton. His knee was broken, his penis was gone, and he didn't have any health insurance.
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* What do you call a constipated German? "Far-from-poopin'" ("[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrvergn%C3%BCgen Fahrvergnügen]]" was an advertising slogan for Volkswagen, loosely meaning "The joy of driving").
* Jeffrey Dahmer, the [[ImAHumanitarian cannibal]] SerialKiller, provoked quite a few of these after he was caught in 1991.
** What did Jeffrey Dahmer say to Lorena Bobbitt[[note]]A woman who made headlines in 1993 when she [[GroinAttack cut off her husband's penis]][[/note]]? "You gonna eat that?"
** Did you hear Jeffrey Dahmer escaped? He was sighted [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege heading to Waco]] with a 55-gallon drum of barbecue sauce.
* On a related note, the Waco siege, in which a Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas entered a 51-day siege with the FBI and the ATF that ended with the place burning down after the FBI tried to stage an assault, also provoked [[http://www.runningpage.org/drears/humor/waco.html a few of these.]]
** How do you pick up Branch Davidian chicks? [[BlackComedy With a DustBuster.]]
** What does "Waco" stand for? [[FunWithAcronyms "We ain't coming out!"]]
* Dozens of [=Y2K=] jokes were only relevant in 1999.
* UsefulNotes/AugustoPinochet is eating in a French restaurant when he finds a hair in his soup. He complains to the maitre, who calls for the waiter: "''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltasar_Garzon#Augusto_Pinochet Garçon! Garçon!]]''". Pinochet replies: "Okay, stop! I'll eat it".
* UsefulNotes/BillClinton steps off of UsefulNotes/AirForceOne with a pig under each arm. The young marine at the door says "What's with the pigs, Mr. President?" Bill says "These aren't just 'pigs', these are Arkansas Razorbacks. I got one for Hillary, and one for Chelsea!" The marine says "Good trade, sir!"
** How does the White House's doorbell sound? ''CLEEN-TONNN!''
** Bill and Hillary are driving through rural Arkansas, they pass by a used car dealership. "That's funny," Hillary says. "That dealer has the same name as an ex-boyfriend of mine." "Just think," Bill says, "if you'd married him today you'd be the wife of a used car dealer." Hillary looks at him for a moment. "No." She says. "If I'd married him today I'd be the wife of the President of the United States."
* Although he first gained notoriety in the late '80s, the '90s marked the peak era of "Kevorkian jokes", which were essentially a modernization of the old "[[SeenItAllSuicide well, now I've seen everything]]" jokes of yore. (Less humorous variants with characters often remarking to "keep Kevorkian over there away from me" or "if X ever happens to me/if I ever end up like that, call Kevorkian" were even more common.)
* Because of TechnologyMarchesOn:
** "Daddy, why doesn't this magnet pick up your floppy disks?" The joke being that floppy disks, as a type of Platform/MagneticDisk, would be destroyed by magnets. As of 2016, magnetic portable storage devices have been almost completely phased out in favor of flash-based devices like USB drives, which are immune to this sort of erasure.[[note]]At least for private users. Many institutions collecting vast amounts of data, like NASA or CERN, still use magnetic drives for archival since it still has better longevity.[[/note]] While magnetic hard disks are still prevalent on many desktop and laptop computers, they too are slowly being replaced by solid-state drives.
** A school aide calls the school's IT support and says, "The classroom's computer isn't working anymore." "What was going on when you first noticed this?" the IT guy asks. "Well, I was deleting some folders left there from other departments, and when I deleted one from the Spanish department, I started having problems," she says. The IT guy scrunches his face in confusion, and says, "The Spanish department? Do you remember what was the folder was called?" The aide smiles and says, "I remember that it was a number in Spanish. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS DOS]]."
* The context of this joke makes it not very easy to get for modern audiences:
** A basketball player from Bosnia was drafted to play with the Los Angeles Lakers. He came home and told his mother the good news.
--->She replied "So what? What about the facts that our home was just looted, your uncle was killed, and your brother was just shot?"\\
"That's all awful," he replied, "but what does it have to do with my signing?"\\
His mother angrily snapped "None of this would've happened had you not brought us to [[WretchedHive LA]]!"[[note]]Substitute for a currently-impoverished African nation, and a Rust Belt city (Cleveland, Detroit, Pittsburgh) and it does still work.[[/note]]
* The following joke plays on similarities between the pronunciation of years and times in 24-hour time (meaning that the year has to be in the 1940s or 1950s, as in 24-hour time 1959 is succeeded by 2000. It also casts the man as having been in his 20s or 30s in the 1950s, which puts him in his 60s or 70s during the 1990s, already at the plausible end of life regarding his libido, and at some point his age will become unreasonably high).
** A widowed ex-Army officer's new girlfriend starts encouraging him to share his sexual history with her, and boldly asks him one day "When did you last have sex?" The officer proudly says "1954, my young chickadee." She responds by kissing him, then standing up and taking off her clothes. While relaxing post-coitus, she remarks to him "You've got wonderful love-making skills for having had such a dry spell!" He looks at the bedside clock and says "It wasn't that long ago, it's now 1100 the following morning."
* While out for a walk, Saddam Hussein finds a bottle half-buried in the sand. Curious, he opens it up, and out pops a genie. The genie offers him a wish, but Saddam rebuffs her, saying she can't get him anything he doesn't already have. The genie insists, saying she'll be sucked back in if he doesn't make a wish. Saddam responds with "okay, if it'll make you quit your bitching, I wish to wake up tomorrow morning with three American celebrities". The next morning, Saddam woke up in bed with Tonya Harding, Lorena Bobbit and Hillary Clinton. His knee was broken, his penis was gone, and he didn't have any health insurance.
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* ''VideoGame/PrimalRage'' is basically the product of a FusionDance between two '90s pop culture trends: the violent, bloody FightingGame with DigitizedSprites and gruesome {{Finishing Move}}s, as launched by ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1992'', and the dinosaur craze sparked by ''Film/JurassicPark''.
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* ''VideoGame/PrimalRage'' is basically the product of a FusionDance between two '90s pop culture trends: the violent, bloody FightingGame with DigitizedSprites and gruesome {{Finishing Move}}s, as launched by ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1992'', and the dinosaur craze sparked by ''Film/JurassicPark''.''Film/JurassicPark1993''.
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* The 1997 MadeForTVMovie ''Detention: The Siege at Johnson High'' (also known as ''Hostage High'' and ''Target for Rage'' in home video releases), in addition to being BasedOnATrueStory, is a noticeably pre-UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} portrayal of a [[AxesAtSchool school shooting]], and not just in its very {{grunge}}-era fashion sense and soundtrack. In particular, it's a film where the school shooter starts taking hostages, some of whom develop a rapport with him while others joke about their predicament, with the hostage negotiator being one of the protagonists. While this is TruthInTelevision for the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindhurst_High_School_shooting real shooting]] the film was based on, later school shooters, starting with the Columbine killers, would be notorious for ''not'' taking hostages and instead opting to LeaveNoSurvivors, with no chance at negotiation. Many real police procedures for dealing with mass shooters, in fact, had to be heavily rewritten after the Columbine massacre, where the police set up a perimeter around the school but didn't go in until it was already over, because they thought they were dealing with a hostage situation where they could negotiate with the killers. As such, the flow of how the shooting progresses can come across as very unusual for somebody raised in the modern environment of mass shootings.
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* The 1997 MadeForTVMovie ''Detention: The Siege at Johnson High'' (also known as ''Hostage High'' and ''Target for Rage'' in home video releases), in addition to being BasedOnATrueStory, is a noticeably pre-UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} portrayal of a [[AxesAtSchool school shooting]], and not just in its very {{grunge}}-era fashion sense and soundtrack. In particular, it's a DieHardOnAnX film where the school shooter starts taking hostages, some of whom develop a rapport with him while others joke about their predicament, with the hostage negotiator being one of the protagonists. While this is TruthInTelevision for the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindhurst_High_School_shooting real shooting]] the film was based on, later school shooters, starting with the Columbine killers, would be notorious for ''not'' taking hostages and instead opting to LeaveNoSurvivors, with no chance at negotiation. Many real police procedures for dealing with mass shooters, in fact, had to be heavily rewritten after the Columbine massacre, where the police set up a perimeter around the school but didn't go in until it was already over, because they thought they were dealing with a hostage situation where they could negotiate with the killers. As such, the flow of how the shooting progresses can come across as very unusual for somebody raised in the modern environment of mass shootings.
