# I know the punchline, what's the joke? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 28, 2002, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-the-punchline-whats-the-joke/145294 "2002-12-28T03:30:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-the-punchline-whats-the-joke/145294/21 "2002-12-29T03:52:24Z")
The implication being, said the kid, that a girl who had round heels would be easier to tip over into a prone position, the better for… you know, enjoying her womanly charms. ---
**Author:** ![flug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4491bb/32.png) [@flug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flug)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-the-punchline-whats-the-joke/145294/22 "2012-10-16T01:47:14Z")
> [@](#): > > Circa 1940, the punchline to a rather risque (apparently) joke was: > > “Hold on to your hats, folks, here we go again!” > > Q: what was the set-up? OK, 10 years late, but here’s the answer: The joke is recorded in [Gershon Legman’s Rationale of the Dirty Joke, p. 59](http://books.google.com/books?id=vsZYihpCoHMC&lpg=PA59&vq=the%20mountaineer%20and%20his%20wife&pg=PA59#v=snippet&q=%22the%20mountaineer%20and%20his%20wife%22&f=false), which quotes sources from 1907, 1933, and 1934. Apparently the joke was current in the 30s and 40s and was even the reason for the ban on the phrases “Hold your hat” and “Hold your hats” from movies during the period by the [Motion Picture Production Code](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Production_Code). The mountaineer and his wife and their three little boys all sleep in the same bed together, the boys wearing their coon-skin hats to keep warm. During the parents’ intercourse, the bed collapses several times, the boys’ hats flying in all directions. The parents wait till the children are asleep and try again. Just as their orgasm is approaching a tiny voice shouts, “Hold onto your hats, boys! Here we go again!” ---
**Author:** ![typoink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-the-punchline-whats-the-joke/145294/23 "2012-10-17T00:18:58Z")
> [@flug](#): > > The mountaineer and his wife and their three little boys all sleep in the same bed together, the boys wearing their coon-skin hats to keep warm. During the parents’ intercourse, the bed collapses several times, the boys’ hats flying in all directions. The parents wait till the children are asleep and try again. Just as their orgasm is approaching a tiny voice shouts, “Hold onto your hats, boys! Here we go again!” Amazing detective work…and a surprisingly terrible joke. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-the-punchline-whats-the-joke/145294/24 "2012-10-17T00:43:28Z")
Twenty bucks. Same as uptown. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-the-punchline-whats-the-joke/145294/25 "2012-10-17T00:46:44Z")
No soap, radio! ---
**Author:** ![J\_Cubed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@J\_Cubed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/J_Cubed)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-the-punchline-whats-the-joke/145294/26 "2012-10-17T01:16:54Z")
The Aristocrats! ---
**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:** [October 17, 2012, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-the-punchline-whats-the-joke/145294/27 "2012-10-17T01:23:53Z")
At these prices, I’m not surprised. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-the-punchline-whats-the-joke/145294/28 "2012-10-17T01:35:06Z")
Thank god you have researched this for the last 10 years. Unfortunately the OP has been banned. The inability to find and answer to this question drove him first to madness then to death as a broken lonely man. But hey, at least we know now. ---
**Author:** ![flano1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f14d63/32.png) [@flano1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flano1)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-the-punchline-whats-the-joke/145294/29 "2012-10-17T02:38:57Z")
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