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Post by Eva Yojimbo on May 22, 2020 4:04:30 GMT
Here's one I didn't get when I first saw it as a kid (go to 2:01):
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Post by Eva Yojimbo on May 22, 2020 4:23:57 GMT
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. It's one of those situations where seeing it in print only doesn't convey the meaning. I think you have to see the visual scene to get it. That's true, since the reaction is the indication that he's thinking of altering something else rather than the dress.
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Post by Morgana on May 22, 2020 10:30:18 GMT
A t-shirt I bought that had written on it 'Football Players Do It In The End Zone'. Which I understood at face value.
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Post by someguy on May 22, 2020 16:07:11 GMT
I remember when I went to prom with my dad and came home with my mom.
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Post by bravomailer on May 22, 2020 16:12:22 GMT
In a Rocky and Bullwinkle episode in which our heroes are in the Himalayas, Boris Badenov disguises himself as mountain-climbing expert named Sir Edmund Pushemov.
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Post by Jokers_Wilde on May 22, 2020 17:28:44 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.
NICE!! 
(Please note that it is not my intention to offend anyone with what I'm about to say. If I do, I apologize in advance.)
Many years ago, a co-worker sang a verse of a song that has still stuck with me to this day:
(To the tune of Yankee Doodle Dandy)
Chinese people never swear Ah so! Ah so!
Joker's Wilde
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