What joke did you not understand until you got older
8For me it was the old joke:
What’s black and white and red (read) all over?
A Newspaper.
I think I was in my 20s when I finally realized that it wasn’t the color red being referred to but it’s homophone. Irregard, it took too long for me to understand it.
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Three moles are walking along a kitchen counter. The first one stops and says “I smell sugar.” the second one stops and says “I smell syrup.” The third one wasn’t paying attention and ran into the others and said “I smell molasses!”
I heard that joke all the time when I was a little kid; I thought it was either a really dumb non-joke or I wasn’t getting something about the ingredients in molasses.
@Moose Well I’ll never think of molasses the same way again…
When I was very little I had a joke book. For the longest time I didn’t get this one.
How do you get down off an elephant?
You don’t. You get down off a duck.
@mfladd oh man…I went through many iterations of trying to figure out the word play for this, and finally had to google it. I wasn’t even questioning other meanings for down…
@mfladd
Holy forkballs.
I literally never bother looking at these forums, and I only clicked on this one to state that… When I was little, I had a joke book, and there was this joke, “how do you get down off an elephant?“
I’m keeping my eye on you, Fokker.
@kensalen That’s funny! I remember occasionally looking at the book when I was little and still never getting the joke. I never even asked anyone to explain it. I would even think of that joke sometimes, until one day at a some unknown age the answer made sense to me. Just one of those strange little things from childhood that I remember.
True story time! I got a Fisher Price tape recorder for… I think my 3rd birthday. One side of the factory tape was an instruction manual of sorts, and the other side was blank so you could record yourself singing songs, interviewing stories and making up radio dramas.
I recently went through a stack of old cassette tapes and digitized them. Then went back and listened to the “side 2” of that Fisher Price cassette. Found a copy of this joke that I OBVIOUSLY didn’t get at the time.
“Daddy, tell me a funny joke:”
“What did the hurricane say to the palm tree?”
“…” “What?”
“Hold on to your nuts! This ain’t no ordinary blowjob.”
“Ha ha you’re funny daddy.”
I am certain I didn’t get it at the time. And I never heard him tell that joke again! But now I have it all on tape.
@2palms I sure hope your dad is still with you so you can share that with him.
My dad telling me “The older you get, the smarter I am.”
I now relay his wisdom to my own children.
Three Amigos.
As they exit the bar, they see a plane flying overhead, Lucky remarks on it, Ned says it’s a Tubman 601, that he flew one in one of his movies. Dusty wonders what it’s doing in Mexico, Ned replies, “I think it’s a mail plane.” Lucky asks how he can tell. Ned says, “Didn’t you see it’s little balls hanging down?” And procedes to laugh uproariously. Lucky pauses for a moment, then gets it (homo-phone mail/male) and joins in laughing as Ned is literally in tears at this point, gasping “mail plane, little balls.” Dusty looks on, confused and feeling left out starts fake laughing but obviously does not understand the joke. I was Dusty for soooooo many years.
@mtb002 by far one of my favorite movies. First time I saw it was at age 5, so there were a lot of jokes I didn’t understand growing up.
There is a scene where Carmen offers to let Dusty kiss her on the veranda. He replies “Lips would be fine” – I never understood why my dad laughed at that until I was 15 or 16.
“One false move and I’ll pump you so full of lead, you’ll be using your dick as a pencil” made no sense either, but now it’s probably one of my favorite lines of all time.
@capguncowboy
Forgive me, El Guapo (which literally translates into the handsome), I know I, Heffe, do not have your superior intellect and education, but could it be, that once again, you are angry about something else and are looking to take it out on me?
I swear that joke is one of the best bits of relationship advice ever released into the universe.
@capguncowboy @mtb002 Is it a plethora of relationship advice??
@capguncowboy @shahnm
I would hate to find out that you have no idea what it means to have a plethora.
Many jokes from the Simpsons…
@zachdecker “Sneed’s Feed & Seed, Formerly Chuck’s” - funniest hidden dirty joke ever on TV
@Codeman The best one are those that the censors probably just didn’t pick up on.
It was at least a year or so after I saw the South Park movie that I realized that the phrase “Bigger, Longer, and Uncut” was not referring to the film.
How many flies does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Two.
But three if they really wanna have fun.
3 nuns walked into a bar. The 4th one ducked.
@lseeber that’s my favorite joke.
Amen.
I didn’t get the “I’m finally getting the feeling back in my jaw” line from the Pam sequence in Annie Hall for YEARS (despite watching the movie several times) and it wasn’t until I was watching the scene in That 70s Show where Eric and his mother are watching the film that it, er, came to me.
What has 4 wheels and flies?
Garbage truck.
Most episodes of Seinfeld. Does anyone remember “The Contest”?
/youtube seinfeld the contest
@elimanningface Well, it is November. I can’t grow a decent beard for “No-Shave-November”, so let’s just say I have my own contest going this month.
@medz I just thought of another Seinfeld episode. “The Move” I did not get when I was younger and still don’t get now. I know what they are alluding to but I don’t know what is actually involved in it.
/youtube Seinfeld the move
@elimanningface @medz “The Move” is for novices. Completing “The Switch” takes true skill.
“There once was a man from Nantucket…”
I could never figure out how limericks worked until I was well into my 20’s. I always just thought I had missed the punch line from a joke that everyone knew.
I still haven’t figured it out…
One of my dad’s friends had a t-shirt that read “I choked Linda Lovelace.” I asked who Linda Lovelace was, but they just laughed.
@gregormehndel
/google Linda Lovelace
Linda Lovelace - IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001483/
@gregormehndel
Was this your Dad’s friend?
@jst1ofknd, well, he certainly looks like a fat sausage…
@jst1ofknd No, but that looks like the same time period! Probably the same shirt, except his was sky blue.
TWSS.