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Original post by misterMaester RE: the elephant joke The key to the joke is the "take the 'f' out of way" part because you then should get a thought which is the punch-line: "There is no 'f' in way" which when said sounds like "There is no f-in way". At least that's the way I've always interpreted the joke.

Well, it's definately a bad joke. Especially since it doesn't work so often (I tried it out on 6 different friends, and none of them gave the desired response).

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Original post by Kazgoroth Quote: Original post by misterMaester RE: the elephant joke The key to the joke is the "take the 'f' out of way" part because you then should get a thought which is the punch-line: "There is no 'f' in way" which when said sounds like "There is no f-in way". At least that's the way I've always interpreted the joke. Well, it's definately a bad joke. Especially since it doesn't work so often (I tried it out on 6 different friends, and none of them gave the desired response).

That one was told to me once too, by like a 10 year old. I didn't give the right response, I didn't say anything, I tried there trying not to look stupid trying to figure out why "take the f out of way" is the punchline.

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Original post by Oberon_Command (Translation) You take the shit out of the sub and get the fuck out of the way.

I thought of that, but I knew it'd be stupid. First of all, there isn't any mention of any 'shit' in the sub. Secondly, even if you did take shit out of the sub, why would that cause you to get the fuck out of the way? There's absolutely nothing to get out of the way from. Thirdly, it's not even remotely possible that a line like that was intended to be funny.

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Original post by skittleo Quote: The use of the words "the" and "get" are very important for it to make sense. You just made my day. That was the best explanation, although completely incorrect, for the joke I have ever heard [lol].

You're welcome.

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Original post by misterMaester RE: the elephant joke The key to the joke is the "take the 'f' out of way" part because you then should get a thought which is the punch-line: "There is no 'f' in way" which when said sounds like "There is no f-in way". At least that's the way I've always interpreted the joke.

I see. That's actually pretty clever. I figured it'd be a phonetic thing, but I didn't realise that the person being told the joke would have to provide the phonetic punch line.

Now, the next one I don't understand is this one:

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(Newspaper headline) Man dies of seizure- "Fitting End", says family

Is there some relation between 'seizure' and 'fitting' that I don't know of?

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Original post by Boris Karloff Is there some relation between 'seizure' and 'fitting' that I don't know of?

A seizure is often referred to as 'having a fit'.

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Original post by Kazgoroth Well, it's definately a bad joke. Especially since it doesn't work so often (I tried it out on 6 different friends, and none of them gave the desired response).

You're just showing off that you have 6 friends!

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Original post by game mercenary operator: that what I am trying to tell you, there are no freakin french fries,

heh I thought of this when reading through this thread. I had originally heard this one from a sound clip for jack in the box with a jack nicholson impersonator.

Hey... What are you eating under there?

Good times... good times...

-Alamar

thats whete I got it from

Why are pirates called pirates?
They just arrrrr

[rolleyes]

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Original post by Kazgoroth Quote: Original post by Boris Karloff Is there some relation between 'seizure' and 'fitting' that I don't know of? A seizure is often referred to as 'having a fit'.

Damn.. never heard of that. If someone referred to me having a seizure as 'having a fit', I'd punch them in the face.