# I just got the joke... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 6, 2003, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818 "2003-10-06T04:13:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/21 "2003-10-07T02:15:33Z")
There was a joke I first read in 1978 or so that described three Indian squaws; one gave birth to a boy on an elk hide, one gave birth to a girl on a deer hide, and the third gave birth to a boy _and_ a girl on a hippopotamus hide. Thus, the squaw on the hippopotamus equalled the sum of the squaws on the other two hides. About ten years later, there was a big CLICK! sound in my head. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/22 "2003-10-07T02:24:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cbawlmer \* > **Actually, for once I think that line is just a single entendre. “Implied oral consent” is the opposite of “direct written consent”, which is what they always say on sports broadcasts about rebroadcasts of the game (you need the direct written consent of the network, the NFL, etc. to rebroadcast).** Actually, the phrase is “[express](http://ewc.blogspot.com/#) written consent”. ---
**Author:** ![Obvious\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Obvious\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Obvious_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/23 "2003-10-07T02:26:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bryan Ekers \* > \*\*There was a joke I first read in 1978 or so that described three Indian squaws; one gave birth to a boy on an elk hide, one gave birth to a girl on a deer hide, and the third gave birth to a boy _and_ a girl on a hippopotamus hide. Thus, the squaw on the hippopotamus equalled the sum of the squaws on the other two hides. > > About ten years later, there was a big CLICK! sound in my head. \*\* I dont get it, theres no hippopotamus in North America. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/24 "2003-10-07T02:29:49Z")
I can’t understand why you guys are seeing any sexual subtext to it at all, nor is it a particularly subtle joke: Bart: Wow, you can do anything out here! Homer: That’s right. See that ship over there? [points to a ship with a large satellite dish on it] They’re rebroadcasting Major League Baseball with implied oral consent, not express written consent – or so the legend goes. ---
**Author:** ![ResIpsaLoquitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@ResIpsaLoquitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ResIpsaLoquitor)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/25 "2003-10-07T02:46:02Z")
Implied… ORAL… …consent. It’s ambiguous. We may have to wait for the Season (whatever) DVD set to come out to hear the real story. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/26 "2003-10-07T03:04:18Z")
“Take my wife. Please.” BWAHAHAHA! Now I get it! ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/27 "2003-10-07T05:15:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sugaree \* > So it’s a double entendre (sp), pure and simple. That’s how I like my double entendres. Pure and simple. ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/28 "2003-10-07T05:45:10Z")
“. . . do not touch Willie” . . . **not sexual**. Yes, “willie” is a slang term for dick, but it also happens to be the name of the janitor. Why would Homer think it would be a good idea not to touch his willie? It makes no sense as a double entendre. Rather, Homer knows who Willie is, and doesn’t want to touch him . . . which would be reasonable. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/29 "2003-10-07T05:48:58Z")
I still think the makers thought about penises and giggled when they made that joke, **VarlosZ**. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/30 "2003-10-07T06:03:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ResIpsaLoquitor \* > \*\*Implied… > > ORAL… > > …consent. > > It’s ambiguous. We may have to wait for the Season (whatever) DVD set to come out to hear the real story. \*\* What’s ambiguous about it? Does the word “oral” invariably suggest a double meaning to you? Do you giggle like a schoolgirl when you say the word “titmouse”? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/31 "2003-10-07T06:03:02Z")
The joke doesn’t have to be completely transparent to the character to be a double entendre. To Homer, “Do not touch Willie” was just good advice. It was also funny to US because it said “do not touch willie,” haha, it’s a sex joke. Just because Homer didn’t get it doesn’t mean it wasn’t a joke. He’s not that sharp. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/32 "2003-10-07T06:19:54Z")
> [@](#): > > Do you giggle like a schoolgirl when you say the word “titmouse”? _Giggle_ He said titmouse. _snort_ ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/33 "2003-10-07T06:28:11Z")
One joke from Monty Python that no one seems to catch. In the dead parrot sketch, the parrot is referred to as a Norwegian Blue. How many parrots do you think fly around Norway? ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/34 "2003-10-07T06:41:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Odinoneeye \* > \*\*One joke from Monty Python that no one seems to catch. > > In the dead parrot sketch, the parrot is referred to as a Norwegian Blue. > > How many parrots do you think fly around Norway? \*\* Obviously one. How else does it show off its beautiful plummage? ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/35 "2003-10-07T06:42:53Z")
[Norwegian Blue Hijack] Check out this [plumage](http://hem.bredband.net/robcum/Aanvvv/parrot_sketch.html) here. For some reason I find it nearly as much fun as the original sketch. I think it’s this bit that pushed me over the edge: Praline: alt.4000.volts.!voom.!voom.!voom Sorry. Carry on. [/NBH] ---
**Author:** ![teemingONE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b4bc9f/32.png) [@teemingONE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teemingONE)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/36 "2003-10-08T01:55:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bryan Ekers \* > \*\* > > Do you giggle like a schoolgirl when you say the word “titmouse”? \*\* Yes… I do. ---
**Author:** ![Dizzy\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dizzy\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dizzy_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/37 "2003-10-08T03:09:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Odinoneeye \* > \*\*One joke from Monty Python that no one seems to catch. > > In the dead parrot sketch, the parrot is referred to as a Norwegian Blue. > > How many parrots do you think fly around Norway? \*\* Perhaps a swallow carried it there. . .? ---
**Author:** ![LucysLogic101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19b73/32.png) [@LucysLogic101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LucysLogic101)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/38 "2003-10-08T03:27:22Z")
What? A swallow carrying a Norwegian Blue? ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/39 "2003-10-08T03:55:17Z")
Wonder what its air-speed velocity would be, laden as it were with a Norwegian Yellow… no Bluaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh! ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/40 "2003-10-08T05:26:27Z")
[chortle]The plural is titsmice, actually. The collective noun is a disneyworld of titsmice.[/chortle] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818.md?page=3)