Time for a laugh/”I don’t get it. Oh! Ha” thanks to Tom in Glasgow:
When I was around eight years old, I overheard my mum telling her pal a quirky little joke that made them snigger a lot. The joke was:
Q: what do you do if an elephant comes through your window?
A: Swim.
I didn’t get the joke at all, but I always remembered it, and even told it to other people several times!
I am now in my thirties and actually have children of my own. I am ashamed to say that I have just reminisced in my brain about that puzzling day when I was eight and have just ‘GOT THE JOKE’ (hehehe snigger).
Answer me this: have you ever heard a joke and taken a long, or as in my case, a very fucking long time to get the punchline?
Oh, plenty! But luckily, in the podcast we can edit out the twenty-year pause.
Readers, please give us all a chuckle today by going to the comments and telling us a joke that we might not get for a couple of decades, or unless our mums explain it to us.
April 26, 2012 at 12:58 pm |
Q: Why did the baker have smelly fingers?
A: Because he needed a poo.
Took me a solid year to get that one.
April 26, 2012 at 10:56 am |
I was told a really racist joke, by a kid, as a kid. I only now realise what a weird kid I was, as I knew how velcro worked, with burrs and loops. I explained that hair was not like that, no matter where you were from, and it wouldn’t stop you jumping on the bed.
It is only now I realise how racist the 80s were though. I didn’t realise that at the time, when I was about 8 years old. It is a pretty insidious thing though. Eek.
I also remember older boys telling me that you had to pee into a woman to make her pregnant. I remember knowing that was utter bullshit, but having not enough knowlege to correct them.
Ha, and one time I was told in Sunday school to draw the smallest thing I could think of, and I touched the paper so lightly with a pencil, then drew an arrow saying there was an atom there.
I can;t believe given how smart I was as a kid, what a fuckup I am as an adult.
April 21, 2012 at 10:51 pm |
Q. What’s red, sits in a tree, and hoots?
A. A Sanitary Owl.
I first heard this joke when I was 7 or 8, and couldn’t understand why a red owl would be considered a clean, hygienic owl. I had a moment of clarity at about the age of 21 when something happened that made me recall the joke, and then it hit me!
April 19, 2012 at 10:18 pm |
Black, white and red all over? Newspaper.
Took me 40 years.
Didn’t get it at all for the first 5 years.
Assumed for the next 35 years that it was a political joke – red, being associated with socialism.
Finally it clicked that red meant read.
April 19, 2012 at 7:40 pm |
Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side.
April 19, 2012 at 3:59 pm |
Can you name me three fish beginning and ending in the letter K?
1. Killer shark
2. Kwik Save frozen haddock
3. Kilmarnock
April 19, 2012 at 3:16 pm |
Not being funny, but I don’t get it. Please explain! (In my defense I have been writing an assignment all day so my brain has officially stopped functioning.)
April 19, 2012 at 11:23 pm |
It took me a few mins to get it now I wish I hadn’t
April 20, 2012 at 12:11 am |
Jenny, the joke is about the copious nature of elephant ejaculate.
April 22, 2012 at 12:52 am |
Now you know why I wish I hadn’t got it
April 19, 2012 at 9:43 am |
Q. Why did the man put the can in the bin?
A. Because of the grasshopper
May 10, 2012 at 2:31 pm |
I dont get it 😦