There was this joke
Must have been in junior school when I heard this joke:

Q: How do you get down from an elephant?

A: You don't, you get down from a duck.

I laughed, as you do, thinking it was one of those non-sequitor jokes, like: what's the difference between a fridge? One side's green and the othe side's also red.

It was many years later that I finally twigged, when I found out how an eiderdown got its name.
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:53, 22 replies)

I don't get it.
You can't ride on a duck.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:56, closed)

Hmm
I was stumped for a second too then I realised that they were talking about down feather.
(mon bison powered by magnets, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 17:07, closed)

Elephants don't have feathers, though.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 17:09, closed)

I had this problem with the "where's the soap" gag.
Thanks, Dad.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 17:12, closed)

Oh yeah, I remember having trouble with that one.


And do you remember this one:

Q[holding up hand in claw-shape] 'That's wanker's cramp. D'you get it?

A: Yeah, funny.

Q: [shouting] CHE GETS WANKERS CRAMP! HA HA HA
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 17:31, closed)

Do you know Paul?

( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 8:38, closed)

Nnnnno
Should I?
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 11:56, closed)

Me too (soap gag).
Heard it when I was at school, aged about 16. It suddenly came back to me - God knows why - when I was walking down Oxford Street at least 10 years later, and the penny dropped.

For a while after that I told the joke to all and sundry, hoping to get a blank stare followed by a forced laugh. Everyone I told the joke to got it straight away, of course.
(eesnahk, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 21:26, closed)

Two nuns on a tandem, riding down a cobbled street.
"I've never come this way before," says one.

I'm not sure that "getting" these jokes make them any less shit, though.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 8:48, closed)

A friend's daughter loved telling this joke when she was little:
"Time flies like an arrow, and fruit flies love bananas!"
( the prick of misery pierced my foot on a spiiiike on, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 18:14, closed)

it's nice that they can go to mainstream school now though, isn't it?

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 19:04, closed)

Time flies
You can't, they're too fast.
( Ghoti Fingers, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 19:10, closed)

This used to be under the clock at a previous workplace.
Quite appropriate as we were on 12-hour shifts.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 19:21, closed)

Perhaps picky, but
"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."

I find it funnier this way, because the second part has a double meaning.

2p
(mmm savoury snacks, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 8:03, closed)

Is it me,
or have you missed the point?
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 8:40, closed)

I think you're right.
I thought we'd just got on to telling jokes.
(mmm savoury snacks, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 8:56, closed)

Q. Why did the architect have his house made backwards?
A. So he could watch TV.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 19:18, closed)

edam esuoh
Sexy.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 10:49, closed)

So he could watch TV at the same time
Works better
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 11:57, closed)

I didn't get this explanation for years...
"Pseudonym is spelt with a silent P, as in bath."

It took a while, but the penny dropped eventually.
(Woofie, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 20:12, closed)

baby elephants are covered in a down-y fluff
so you can get down from an elephant

see? blog.twycrosszoo.org/index.php/2010/07/can-you-guess-the-weight-of-a-baby-elephant/
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 21:11, closed)

You fucking racist you sicken me.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 10:57, closed)