Face palm. A-bomb-in-a-bull. I didn’t get that for a while. Holy moly do I feel dumb now.
That’s okay, I was thinking “Cow-boom.”
My first thought was a bumsteer.
Timing.
I didn’t get it till now. Thanks. I think it loses something in Canadian pronunciation.
But what if it’s a female bull?
I say, “Ah, good old number 62. It’s all in the timing.”
It does?
My vote’s for letting the person finish. I’ll sometimes mention hearing the joke before, but only if I know the joke-teller well. Otherwise, I’ll pretend to find it novel and funny.
Hate to nit pick, but a steer is technically and specifically NOT a bull. Boy cattle become steers when their bull bits are removed.
(And if you’re going the “cow boom” way, obviously you need to start with a cow eating the bomb, since cows only have girly bits)
And, yes… if I heard that joke, I’d probably point out the differences because how are you supposed to guess the punch line when the joke is using the wrong words?
Ah, no you’re right. I actually meant to call it a “meateor shower.” 
This. “Stop me if you’ve heard this” is, for me, an unwritten rule. If I’ve heard it, I will say so.
If I miss the time window, and the guy has gotten into the joke, I will fall back to pretending I haven’t heard it before.
Golden Rule: if I was about to launch into a joke you’d already heard, I’d rather you stop me.
The first one is the only one that’s almost never acceptable. The second one is the usual case. The third with particularly sensitive individuals. The fourth just tends to happen with people I find attractive.
The first is okay in those jokes that depend on your response, as they are sort of a contest.
If you’re a kid, I believe the appropriate response is to say “Last time I heard that one, I laughed so hard I fell off my dinosaur/tricycle”.
Telling a joke is like singing a song. Sure, I’ve heard the song before. But I haven’t heard *you *sing the song before. Let’s see how you do it.
Same with a joke. Everyone tells them differently. I’m willing to listen to your particular way of reeling out this particular joke. So I shut the fuck up and let you tell it. If you do well, I’ll award you with my honest and appreciative laughter.
Best joke in the thread.
Until it explodes… then it’s
NOBLE!
/props to Martin Gardner
::forces laughter::
If it is just me and joke teller, I finish with the punch-line and laugh that we both know the same joke.
In a room? I let them finish.
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Has no left is b-ball speak for can’t dribble with the left hand which is usually the weak hand for most ballers.