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May-15-13
 | | al wazir: <Sneaky>: The eunuch could have fathered children before being castrated, so it wasn't "obvious" that he had none. The punchline could have been, "I have always been an Abderite, but you have not always been a eunuch." |
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May-15-13
 | | Sneaky: Not bad, but it makes the Abderite look smart when I think the goal of the joke is the opposite. |
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May-15-13
 | | OhioChessFan: Retrograde analysis of a joke is harder than retrograde analysis of chess. The hard part is not going for a pun. |
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May-15-13
| | OhioChessFan: * English specific pun. |
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May-15-13
| | Sneaky: OK I'll divulge Clive's proposed punchline:
< Then the Abderite says ...
<<<< How many grandchildren then? >>>>> That's the one to beat. |
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May-15-13
| | OhioChessFan: "Is it too late to get a new pair?" |
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May-15-13
 | | Shams: <OCF> That's pretty good. |
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May-15-13
 | | Tiggler: "If you had a pair you would not care about such stupid rules" |
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May-15-13
| | al wazir: <Sneaky: OK I'll divulge Clive's proposed punchline:<<< How many grandchildren then? >>> That's the one to beat.> That was the first one I thought of -- and rejected. It's lamer than Hephaestus. |
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May-15-13
| | Sneaky: LOL Ohio |
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| May-15-13 | | diceman: <An Abderite (a stupid person) meets a eunuch and asks him, "How many children do you have?" The eunuch replies "I am a eunuch, obviously I have none!" Then the Abderite says ...> What are their names? |
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| May-15-13 | | diceman: <An Abderite (a stupid person) meets a eunuch and asks him, "How many children do you have?" The eunuch replies "I am a eunuch, obviously I have none!" Then the Abderite says ...> ...and your wife? |
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| May-15-13 | | diceman: <An Abderite (a stupid person) meets a eunuch and asks him, "How many children do you have?" The eunuch replies "I am a eunuch, obviously I have none!" Then the Abderite says ...> Whats religion got to do wth it? |
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| May-15-13 | | diceman: <An Abderite (a stupid person) meets a eunuch and asks him, "How many children do you have?" The eunuch replies "I am a eunuch, obviously I have none!" Then the Abderite says ...> ...you possess admirable discipline |
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May-15-13
| | OhioChessFan: "Eunuch. Is that near Athens?" |
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May-15-13
| | OhioChessFan: Hmmmmmmmm. In trying to find a punchline, I forgot the original joke <was> set in Greece. |
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May-15-13
| | Tiggler: <An Abderite (a stupid person) meets a eunuch and asks him, "How many children do you have?" The eunuch replies "I am a eunuch, obviously I have none!" Then the Abderite says ...> Never mind the Bollocks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3eK...
Too many problems, Oh why am I here:? |
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May-16-13
| | al wazir: <OhioChessFan: "Eunuch. Is that near Athens?"> That's better than the one <Sneaky> is going ape over. For the record, here are two others that I discarded. I think they're lousy, but they're better than Clive Anderson's brain blast, which, as I said, I considered too inferior to submit. 1) The Abderite says, "That's too bad. But maybe you and your wife can adopt." 2) The Abderite says, "If part of the Philogelos weren't missing, you would be intact too." (This may be too post-modern for most people's tastes, which makes it anachronistic as well.) |
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May-16-13
| | OhioChessFan: Maybe "Eunis. Is that near Athens?" would have been better than "Eunuch." But there's still the post-modern thing anyway. Which reminds me of the PG-21 Greek joke John Belushi used in his standup routine, but anyway. |
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May-16-13
| | OhioChessFan: "Eunuch? I thought that was Onan." |
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| May-16-13 | | johnnyb3: (1) "Hey, so's my Dad!"
(2) "I guess kids would just get in the way of your singing career." Hmm. I think <OCF>'s "Athens" entry is the champ. |
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May-16-13
| | OhioChessFan: Okay, since there's so much demand for the Belushi joke.....and remember, it was <John Belushi> telling it, in living color, far funnier than I can in writing. A young lady is going to get married, and her father says "Honey, why do you have to marry a Greek man? I always warned you about how they try to turn you over." She says "Daddy, don't worry, I won't let him."
She marries, and after a month her Greek husband says "Honey, we've been married a month. I'd really like to turn you over." The wife says "But I promised my dad I wouldn't let you turn me over." The husband says "What's the matter? Don't you wanna have kids?" |
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May-16-13
 | | Phony Benoni: This may prove that I am a Hopeless Abderite, but I like Clive Anderson's version. It may seem lame to our ears, but there have been a lot of advances in the Science of Humor since 300 A.D. That's even before Saint Augustine, for goodness sakes. |
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| May-16-13 | | johnnyb3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSgR... |
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| May-16-13 | | diceman: The Funniest Joke In The world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBYZ... |
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