Youth and Young Manhood

I saw this joke last year on the Internet, I suppose soon after it was written, and I thought it was the funniest thing I’d heard in awhile. I then proceeded to forget both the joke and the source.

I went to great lengths to track it down, including:

• Doing Google searches for “Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy + burrito + joke” and various permutations of those words (you see, I’d confused the subject and the object of the joke)
• Scouring through old Tumblr posts and doing searches on the same
• Installing a plug-in for Firefox that would let me search my browser history (this wouldn’t solve the problem, but would prevent me from forgetting any burrito/musician related jokes I may come across in the future)
• Asking a few friends if they’d heard a similar joke. (They hadn’t, nor did they find it particularly funny. Probably because my version involved Bonnie “Prince” Billy crying into a burrito and making it salty or something…)

I was going through my Delicious bookmarks today when I ran into this gem at long last. I still think it’s funny as hell, but I’m sure that has to do in part with the struggle I endured in search of the laugh.

If you haven’t listened to Bon Iver, check out their live performance of “Skinny Love” on Letterman.