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Post by Ass_E9 on May 18, 2020 20:47:17 GMT
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Post by Ass_E9 on May 18, 2020 21:04:13 GMT
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Post by Catman on May 18, 2020 21:06:18 GMT
Before Catman learned the basics of language, pretty much all of them.
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Post by pennypacker on May 18, 2020 21:06:34 GMT
I've been watching shows like Seinfeld, The Simpsons and South Park since I was like 7 or 8 years old. Maybe even earlier.
A lot of those jokes went over my head.
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Post by James on May 18, 2020 21:23:17 GMT
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Post by Nora on May 18, 2020 21:43:07 GMT
this is not a joke but a saying " she put out". I read it in a book called "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole" first, when I was about 13-14 years old (pre internet years, remember that) and I remember turning pages back and forth looking for What Exactly she put out. I kept thinking I must have missed "THE THING" she was putting out (and where was it exactly that she put it). It was YEARS I kid you not, YEARS before I got that one. But I remember to this day laying in bed, looking for my mistake in comprehending that part of the book, turning pages in frustration. I should really read that book again, maybe there will be more discoveries
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Post by llanwydd on May 18, 2020 22:08:13 GMT
What's black and white and red all over?
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Post by deembastille on May 18, 2020 22:10:42 GMT
What's black and white and red all over? A nun run over by a truck.
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Post by marianne48 on May 18, 2020 23:23:07 GMT
At the end of Some Like it Hot, Daphne (Jack Lemmon) tells his fiance Osgood (Joe E. Brown) that he can't wear Osgood's mother's wedding gown because "she and I are not built the same way."
Osgood: We can have it altered. Daphne (outraged): Oh, no, you don't!
As a kid, I didn't get Daphne's strong reaction until years later, when I realized that Daphne wasn't referring to the gown.
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Post by llanwydd on May 19, 2020 18:15:00 GMT
I still don't get the chicken joke.
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Post by Jokers_Wilde on May 19, 2020 20:08:48 GMT
My grandparents used to own a restaurant in a cottage town on the peninsula. Family would go there at least once every summer.
They had signs all around the front where the cash register was.
One sign that I remember read:
OUR CREDIT IS HANDLED BY HELEN WAITE. IF YOU WANT CREDIT, GO TO HELEN WAITE.
Meanwhile, all these years, I'm thinking this Helen Waite is/was a real person.
It was until YEARS later that I got it.
Helen Waite? Helen Wait? Hell and Wait?
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Go to Hell and wait.
Their way of saying...you want credit? Forget it!
Joker's Wilde
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Post by twothousandonemark on May 19, 2020 21:16:58 GMT
Newfies wanted an Olympic fencing team of their own, but they kept getting caught in the barbed wire.
It's still not that funny, but I had no idea what fencing as a sport entailed, & I barely even knew what barbed wire was. I was under 8yrs old. I'd hear it at street parties with families & the dads would love it. Strange.
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Post by divtal on May 19, 2020 21:17:28 GMT
I can't think of one specific joke, now. However, when I was little, there was a local TV "kiddie" show that I loved. Art Finley, who did a great deal of media, in the area, hosted the program as "Mayor Art." The group of kids who appeared on each program, was referred to as "The City Council." There were some cartoons, and the show incorporated segments that were educational, and always fun.
My Dad got home from work, about the time that the program aired, and my parents watched it with me. I assumed that they enjoyed it on the same level that I did. And, I don't recall anything that Mayor Art said that was confusing to me.
I learned, later that Mr. Finley was a master of "double entendre." He entertained/taught the "kiddos," -- while appealing to the adults on a much more sophisticated level. I wish that I could re-watch some of the "Mayor Art," programs.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on May 19, 2020 21:18:45 GMT
My grandparents used to own a restaurant in a cottage town on the peninsula. Family would go there at least once every summer.
They had signs all around the front where the cash register was.
One sign that I remember read:
OUR CREDIT IS HANDLED BY HELEN WAITE. IF YOU WANT CREDIT, GO TO HELEN WAITE.
Meanwhile, all these years, I'm thinking this Helen Waite is/was a real person.
It was until YEARS later that I got it.
Helen Waite? Helen Wait? Hell and Wait?
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Go to Hell and wait.
Their way of saying...you want credit? Forget it!
Joker's Wilde
On a similar note, there used to be a poster here who called himself "Warren Peace". It was quite some time before I realised that it was (probably) meant as a pun with "War and Peace".
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Post by theauxphou on May 20, 2020 0:12:27 GMT
None.
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Post by marianne48 on May 20, 2020 20:50:49 GMT
At the end of Some Like it Hot, Daphne (Jack Lemmon) tells his fiance Osgood (Joe E. Brown) that he can't wear Osgood's mother's wedding gown because "she and I are not built the same way." Osgood: We can have it altered. Daphne (outraged): Oh, no, you don't! As a kid, I didn't get Daphne's strong reaction until years later, when I realized that Daphne wasn't referring to the gown. I still don't get it. Osgood offers to have alterations made to the gown so that it fits Daphne more comfortably. Daphne thinks that he's suggesting certain surgical "alterations" to his body so that the gown fits better.
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Post by CrepedCrusader on May 21, 2020 6:26:10 GMT
There must be a thousand jokes that I've heard in movies and shows as an adult that I realize went over my head as a kid, but I can only think of one off the top of my head. It was in the Spider-Man cartoon from the 90s. I don't remember the line exactly, but Spidey makes fun of Dr. Octopus's name, emphasising "Doc Ock". Later, I realized what was supposed to be funny about it.
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Post by Bargle on May 21, 2020 10:31:55 GMT
I heard this one in my late teens.
A young man buys a sway backed horse. Another man asks, "What are you going to do with that horse?"
The young man says, "I'm gonna race him."
The other man looks the horse over and says, "You'll win."
I had to get my mom to explain it to me.
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Post by llanwydd on May 21, 2020 16:28:51 GMT
My grandparents used to own a restaurant in a cottage town on the peninsula. Family would go there at least once every summer.
They had signs all around the front where the cash register was.
One sign that I remember read:
OUR CREDIT IS HANDLED BY HELEN WAITE. IF YOU WANT CREDIT, GO TO HELEN WAITE.
Meanwhile, all these years, I'm thinking this Helen Waite is/was a real person.
It was until YEARS later that I got it.
Helen Waite? Helen Wait? Hell and Wait?
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Go to Hell and wait.
Their way of saying...you want credit? Forget it!
Joker's Wilde This story reminds me of something that happened to me when I was a kid. This is not a joke but I hope you might enjoy an anecdote. I was on an outing in New York City with some relatives. We took a little jaunt through the Chinatown section of Manhattan. I was really excited to see this exotic place with all these Chinese people. It was summer and we had the windows down. As we turned a corner I heard a loud voice say what sounded like "Ah so!" I had heard this expression many times not knowing that it was a stereotype. I thought it was all the Chinese I knew and now I was hearing a real Chinese person saying it so I kept repeating "Ah so!" until somebody told me to stop. It wasn't until many years later I finally figured out the guy was probably saying something else.
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Post by Eva Yojimbo on May 22, 2020 4:02:54 GMT
Osgood offers to have alterations made to the gown so that it fits Daphne more comfortably. Daphne thinks that he's suggesting certain surgical "alterations" to his body so that the gown fits better. Yes, I know that. Unless there's something in the film which makes this clear, they could just be talking about altering the dress. The joke is that one person is saying one thing and the other person is mistakenly thinking they're talking about something else. There's no way to explicitly state that without ruining the joke. The indication it's being taken differently than how it's meant is by the severity of his reaction to an otherwise normal/non-shocking suggestion.
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