# Explain christmas card joke **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 12, 2015, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-christmas-card-joke/737365 "2015-11-12T09:33:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2015, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-christmas-card-joke/737365/21 "2015-11-13T18:05:24Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > No, myrrh symbolises healing. One of its uses as perfume was to anoint the dead. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2015, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-christmas-card-joke/737365/22 "2015-11-13T23:51:48Z")
From a carol: “Myrrh is mine, its bitter perfume/breathes a life of gathering gloom/sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying/sealed in a stone-cold tomb.” Yeah, I’d rather have an easter egg. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2015, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-christmas-card-joke/737365/23 "2015-11-14T00:32:07Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > One of its uses as perfume was to anoint the dead. > > Regards, > Shodan It’s the gift that keeps on giving… ---
**Author:** ![Not\_Carlson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc79bd/32.png) [@Not\_Carlson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_Carlson)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2015, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-christmas-card-joke/737365/24 "2015-11-14T03:21:03Z")
> [@Tithonus](#): > > Why does Santa drive a Sleigh with bells on it? > > Because he’s a cunt. Damn! That cracked me up good and proper. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2015, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-christmas-card-joke/737365/25 "2015-11-14T03:29:11Z")
I honestly don’t get that joke. ---
**Author:** ![Not\_Carlson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc79bd/32.png) [@Not\_Carlson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_Carlson)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2015, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-christmas-card-joke/737365/26 "2015-11-14T03:41:20Z")
It worked for me because I was expecting a bad Christmas pun. Like **Aussie chef** was talking about. It’s one of those blind-siding jokes. But if you think about it, someone who comes around at night ringing bells all through town when honest folk are trying to sleep, … No? ---
**Author:** ![Kedikat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed655f/32.png) [@Kedikat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kedikat)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2015, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-christmas-card-joke/737365/27 "2015-11-14T05:13:41Z")
It is a multi level joke. One of the men is wise enough to see the future? He is also so crass as to flaunt it? The wise men know, but the rest don’t? Cracking an inside joke. A joke about the increasing political correctness minefield of making jokes. Pretty good joke. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2015, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-christmas-card-joke/737365/28 "2015-11-14T23:39:32Z")
I’d like to see that card. The site won’t let me see it unless I subscribe. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-christmas-card-joke/737365.md?page=1)