The 2021 -2024 and Continuing Joke Threads

[Bullshooter]

Originally Posted by Buzzman

The 'Dingo Farm' cartoon is clearly a play on the Azaria Chamberlain case in Australia.


The morning after the announcement "A dingo took my baby!" one of our local radio station's DJ's announced the following:


"Did you hear about the Irish dingo..?


It got into the Botanic Gardens and ate all the azaleas..!!"


Boom, tish..!!


RIP Uncle Doug Mulray and Andrew the Boy Wonder from Indoor Cricket.....

OK, I'm feeling slow this morning. I don't get it.

[Montanan]

Originally Posted by Bullshooter

OK, I'm feeling slow this morning. I don't get it.

Bullsooter, neither did I.

But once you do, you can say: "Ah-stralia."

[carstenb]

Lots of us did not get it. But then we don’t always get a lot of jokes

[Montanan]

Originally Posted by Bullshooter

OK, I'm feeling slow this morning. I don't get it.

Sometimes I think that every joke post should have a link to an explanation webpage so as to assist those that don't get it. Perhaps AI will be able to provide explanations whenever we become puzzled. By the way, one can ask AI to come up with jokes for you.

I deal with a lot of business associates all around the world, and often jokes get lost in translation or cultural distinctions, especially if there are three or more countries involved in the videoconference, e.g., A Montanan, Texan [yeah Texas is its own space], German, Chinan, Australian [walk into a bar[.
.

By way of example, I am from Montana, not many of the Dakota jokes go over well when spoken with those immediately to the east of our 406 Country,
One instead learns to selectively shift the subject of the joke to be the Cowboys of Wyoming, instead of Dakotans.

[Danm1]

"I deal with a lot of business associates all around the world, and often jokes get lost in translation or cultural distinctions, especially if there are three or more countries involved in the videoconference"

Years ago I hung out in a bar in Switzerland with a bartender who spoke 11 languages. He would provide simultaneous translation when anyone told a joke. Usually it worked, but the French didn't get a joke about Ferdinand the bull and Elsie the cow. After much discussion the joke was retold with Hannibal the bull and Anibelle the cow and the French cracked up.

[chrisr]

Originally Posted by Montanan

Bullsooter, neither did I.

But once you do, you can say: "Ah-stralia."

actually the correct pronunciation is " 'Straya "

cheers,

[wefleenor]

[QUOTE=Montanan;3821557]Bullsooter, neither did I.

Does knowing that Azelias are poisonous help?

[jeanathon]

[QUOTE=Montanan;3821594]

Sometimes I think that every joke post should have a link to an explanation webpage so as to assist those that don't get it.



Mark Twain once said, "
Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

[Buzzman]

No, not really. But it makes the Irish dingos look even more stupid than one of these jokes might make the Irish out to be.


Racial stereotyping has long been a way to 'hang' a joke.


In Australia, often the Kiwis are the butt of jokes that in Montanans region would be Wyomians (is that even correct??).


It's in the same vein as the old sage that states:


"Did you hear the one about the Irish match factory? They test every match!
Dis one works, dis one works, dis one works...."


Or, conversely:


"How can you tell the bride at an Aussie wedding?"
A: She's the one wearing new thongs (flip flops, jandals, rubber sandals)


So, yeah, like Montanan said, you need to know the 'off demographic' in order to 'get' the joke.


And for those still struggling, it depends on noticing the similarity in pronunciation between "Azaria" and "azalea".


The Irish dingos being so stupid they missed that salient point....

Nuff said...

[jeanathon]

Originally Posted by Danm1

Usually it worked, but the French didn't get a joke about Ferdinand the bull and Elsie the cow. After much discussion the joke was retold with Hannibal the bull and Anibelle the cow and the French cracked up.

I found the only way to tell the French a Polish or blonde joke was to rename it a Belgian joke.

[Buzzman]

And telling the same joke to a Polish person probably requires the butt to be converted to a Belarussian, or Ukrainian.

I wonder how this works in Asia? Do Pakistanis tell jokes with Indian subjects, and vice versa?


Do Thais tell jokes with Burmese, or Malay subjects...???


I wonder if anyone has ever done any research into this. Might be a good thesis subject. "Inherent Racial Prejudice in Humour Globally".

Interesting that we all seem to do it....

[jeanathon]

In the case of Americans finding dumb pollock jokes funny, it was due to propaganda by the soviets portraying Poles as stupid.
I would bet that a lot of our prejudices are from our respective governments portraying globally political opponents as "others" to dehumanize them. But enough of that. Let's have an insensitive joke!
A woman goes to a pharmacy, and buys some slimming products for 300 Euros. She asks the pharmacist:
– How much do you think I will be losing with this?
The pharmacist responds:
– Well … 300 Euros.

[Buzzman]

Pollock is a fish. Polacks are the racially desensitised butts of American jokes.


In Oz it used to be okay to make jokes in which indigenous people were the butt of the joke, but that's pretty much stopped now. I'm not even going to repeat some of the jokes I heard 30-40 years ago. They make me cringe today...


I guess it's the same elsewhere, as the formerly downtrodden have claimed space in the light, and highlighted the hurt they feel when they are the butt of the joke.


But whatever else happens elsewhere in the world, Kiwis will always be sheep shaggers....


[ducks and runs for cover]

[Jim Cate]

So, in an office there once was a guy who was always telling ethnic jokes. They were often funny, but as the world became more woke, folks started complaining to the HR department about being offended. So the jokester was summoned into the head man's office and told that he must stop with the offensive jokes... or else!

He was stunned, for he really enjoyed making his fellow workers laugh. After a bit he asked if his jokes were not pointed at any group represented in the office would that be OK? Nope, they still might offend someone's family or friends.

"Well then, how about if they were aimed at a no longer extant group of people, say the Etruscans? Ain't been any of them around for centuries!"

The boss thought about this for a bit and said "well, maybe. Give me an example..."

"Hmmm, OK.... Two Etruscans, Paddy and Mick walked into a bar..."


Jim

[Buzzman]

ROTFLMAO...!!!!


Etruscans....

Named 'Paddy' and 'Mick'....


He really hadn't thought that thru had he..?