Questions about humorous expressions, jokes, puns, etc.
Questions about humorous expressions, jokes, puns, etc.
Questions tagged [jokes]
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Why is this joke about elephants and quarts funny?
There is a joke:
Q: What is grey and comes in quarts?
A: An elephant.
Why? Why does it come in quarts? What is funny here?
Andorian
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Didn't understand joke about No Child Left Behind
I was watching this video.
At around 30:00, Chomsky exaplins that he never went to Chemistry class nor to Chemistry lab and he got a A nevertheless. Then he makes a joke: "This approach has a name. It's called No Child Left Behind" (31:12 into the…
robertspierre
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Analyzing Will Ferrell's "I Thought" joke
I'm reading Will Ferrell's Twitter where he wrote
Just thought a thought but the thought
I thought wasn't the thought I thought
I thought.
Does the sentence still have the same meaning if you remove the last "I thought"?
Is this grammatical…
makerofthings7
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What's the connection between Slobovian and the elbow?
Here is a sentence from Making Sense of Japanese by Jay Rubin:
They are just part of the world's most clunky writing system, and a writing system cannot cause a language to be processed in a different part of the brain any more than it can force it…
null
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What do I say if I mix something up?
In Russian, when a person mixes something up, they can jokingly say "mixed it up with the right angle" (перепутал с прямым углом).
This comes from an old joke:
"Water boils at 90 degrees."
"Sorry, but the textbook says water boils at 100…
Quassnoi
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What is funny in Inflammable
In one episode of Simpsons there is joke when fire catches because a foreign citizen read "inflammable" on a gas bottle, and said it is all right.
adopilot
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What is the meaning of this joke?
Behold the joke in its original glory
The judge looked down upon the counsel and said,
Judge: Listen, counsel. I have been listening to you for three hours, and I am none the wiser.
Barrister: I expected that, my lord, but I thought you might be…
tryingtobeastoic
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Joke about a magical tractor, I dont get it
The joke is:
Did you hear about the magic tractor? It turned into a field.
What is the joke about?
I am thinking that the tractor is abandoned and the field cover it, I cant imagine other situation.
Help me please.
Thank you in advance.
PS: I am a…
Raúl Monge
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What it means "Decisions in 10 minutes or less, or the next one is free."?
What does this quote means "Decisions in 10 minutes or less, or the next one is free."?
From: http://news.microsoft.com/2000/02/16/the-motivator-behind-the-windows-2000-development-team/
The next decision is free?
Which doesn't make a lot of sense…
waverider
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(Joke) Batchers Vs. Butchers
Here's the script from Inside No. 9 Nana's Party
You can get them quite cheap now, can't you?
It's all Marks's, actually.
Apart from the ham, which I got from the local batchers.
From the what?
From the batchers.
The "batchers"? What's the…
Mou某
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Meaning of "9/11 is plain wrong" joke
My friend said to me that making fun out of 9/11 is plain wrong, and then he said it was a joke?
Honestly I don't get the joke? Why would it be plain wrong? Doesn't plain mean nothing? I'm confused.
John
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A joke about blind date
I cannot understand this joke on Twitter:
Has a blind date. The dates blind.
I know what blind date is, but what's the meaning of the second sentence?
Fish Monitor
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Can you please explain this joke by Samuel Johnson?
In Life of Johnson, we read the following:
a fellow having attacked him with some coarse raillery, Johnson answered him thus, 'Sir, your wife, under pretence of keeping a bawdy-house, is a receiver of stolen goods.'
I can't seem to figure what…
nonremovable
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Jokes where you replace a word with something unrelated but similar sounding
So a friend of mine always works this type of joke into normal conversation and I always get a kick out of it.
Example:
Person 1: Why are you always hogging the TV remote?
Person 2: Because I am shellfish!
Obviously shellfish is not the correct…
MrJman006
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Meaning of a joke
Visitor to a village stops a local and asks, "How do I get to Aberdeen from here?"
Local answers, "Och, if I were going to Aberdeen, I wouldn't start from here!" What does this joke imply ?
George carlin
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