# I Remember the Punchline, But I Forget the Joke

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 6, 2008, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-remember-the-punchline-but-i-forget-the-joke/440390 "2008-03-06T23:52:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-remember-the-punchline-but-i-forget-the-joke/440390/81 "2008-03-09T02:57:37Z")

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[QUOTE=Frylock]  
My mother-in-law knows there is a joke where the punchline is “mole asses” but does not know the joke.

It is probably a pun on “molasses” but we don’t know how the pun would be set up.

-FrL-  
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There was a mamma mole, a papa mole, and a baby mole. They lived in a hole outside of a farm house out in the country.

The papa mole reached his head out of the hole and said, Mmmmm, I smell sausage..

The mama mole reached her head outside of the hole and said Mmmmmm, I smell pancakes..

The baby mole could not stick his head out, and from under the hole he said: I can only smell the …

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