What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?

We can only hope the treatment does not provoke much resistance

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He said he feels powerless. He doesn’t have the capacity for more of it.

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It’s a good thing he’s not going to court over this… they’d definitely try him in a lower circuit.

He’d have to wait in a cell… or maybe a series of cells… before they saw him. The judiciary system right now is handing out heavier sentences, although there are hopes they’re lightning up.

(I’ll stop)

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Please Stop. I don’t want to start banning people again.

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When Disapproving Cat gets the banhammer, we’d all better hide in the long grass.

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Moishevitz is applying for an exit visa.
“But comrade, why do you want to leave the workers’ paradise?”
“I hear there is going to be a great pogrom. Against all the Jews and all the barbers.”
“Why the barbers?”
“Everyone says that. That’s why I want to leave.”

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My wife has filed for divorce from me, saying that I’m not American enough.

I’m not really surprised. I could see it coming a kilometer away.

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Unnatural creatures always seem to know where they are. Zombies can always find brains, vampires young ladies with diaphanous nightwear, ghouls the recently deceased. It’s all a form of undead reckoning.

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I have to be a bit careful around bees. I am not very allergic, but I do get hives.

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Where does Long John Silver keep his workout gear?

In arrrr gym bag.

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I must’ve posted this here before, but just in case:

What is a pirate’s favourite letter?
(Wait for the person to respond “Arrrr!”)

Ye’d think it be Arrr, but their first love be the C…

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Not knowing enough about Greek Mythology is my Achilles horse.

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As I was going to St. Ives
I met a man with forty wives.
I didn’t question the legality,
Which I thought was very
Bigamy.

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I mean. I’m not even cross about this one

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I know explaining jokes takes away most of the point but in this case i just didn’t grasp the secondary meaning or sound of bigamy? or cultural subtext?

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Bigamy is marrying someone when you’re already married.
Sounds similar to “big of me” which would mean the person is saying they are being kind or generous in their action.

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Here’s a particularly famous example of the wordplay in action, from Animal Crackers (jump to around 3:30 if you don’t want to watch the whole scene):

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Oh, I’m very ready to painfully explain my jokes, but in this case I’ve been beaten to it.

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And you’re feeling so pained because of the beating?

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To be fair, he did have it coming.

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