I think you have to be the right age to read it
I picked it up when I was 15 and struggled for ages to get past the first few chapters, eventually giving up. Then when I was about 20, I was home from university and my sister had left a copy in the bathroom. Four hours later, my bathwater was freezing, my skin was shrivelled like a prune's ballbag and I was still frantically devouring page after page...
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 10:42, 1 reply)

Oh Emvee, I thought you would be one of those I could rely on to get the joke...

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 10:50, closed)

:(
I'm not very sharp today, sorry
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 10:53, closed)

B3ta seems to have fallen prey to an attack from the Anti-Joke Chicken this week.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 11:03, closed)

Thank you for the new signature, sir.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 11:04, closed)

I can't claim credit for this one, I'm afraid.
The Anti-Joke Chicken can be found here, and you're actually the one who seems to get attacked by it the most.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 11:24, closed)

Hahahaha
I'd be proud if I wasn't ashamed that I didn't know about this before.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 11:25, closed)