So…IS there a joke with the punchline, “THAT’s not a duck, that’s my WIFE!!” And what’s the whole joke? If not, does anyone know where this originated?
Or make up your own joke with this punchline!
A guy walks into his friend’s house and hears “Quack, Quack, Quack” coming from the kitchen. “Hey”, he says. “You have a duck in your kitchen”.
The friend answers “THAT’s not a duck, that’s my WIFE”.
Is that funny, or what?
Huh?
I don’t get it.
tcburnett:
what
Of course it’s funny. The wife was just quacking up at his hilarity.
What you’re forgetting is that the joke tcburnett cites is originally of French origin. In France, the words for “duck” and “quack” are both slang terms for kitchen implements, and euphemisms for (respectively) a participant in and the results of a certain, ah, bizarre sexual practice that only the French could dream up.
Unfortunately, those those type of slangy puns don’t translate well, and that fact, coupled with the inevitable Babelfish garbling, makes the joke fall rather flat in English. The people I know that speak idiomatic French well assure me that it’s DAMN funny in the original, though.
ZUT ALORS ! ( couldn’t resist…)
To quote the brilliant and sublime Matt Groening, " The French are funny. Comedies are funny. Yes, French comedies are not funny".