Funny or offensive? It’s a fine line to walk in today’s modern world, but especially so on the golf course, where stuffy tradition and the overwhelming need to needle your friends collide.

What’s acceptable and what’s not? What flies and what clanks off the hosel, ricochets off the cart, and comes back to hit you right between the eyes? We assembled a crack squad of scientists, sociologists, and sicko golfers to help answer that question, and this is what they came back with. Take it or leave it, but do so at your risk.

The offensive vs funny diagonal