# Joke with punchline: "what do you mean we, whiteman" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 14, 2005, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joke-with-punchline-what-do-you-mean-we-whiteman/316973 "2005-08-14T15:42:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2005, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joke-with-punchline-what-do-you-mean-we-whiteman/316973/21 "2005-08-15T14:04:57Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > A cartoon version of this appeared in “Mad Magazine” in the early 60s, and, IIRC, it was already a well known joke by then. My Dad uses the joke, “Whattya mean ‘we’ white man?” which definitely means it was well-known before 1960. Another Tonto-Lone Ranger, joke. . . The duo is riding across the plains. Tonto dismounts and puts his ear to the ground. He stands up and proclaims, “Buffalo come.” Lone Ranger says, “how do you know?” Tonto replies, “Ear sticky.” ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2005, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joke-with-punchline-what-do-you-mean-we-whiteman/316973/22 "2005-08-15T14:46:22Z")
[url=http://www.top40db.net/nfLyrics.asp?SongID=74348&ByWhat=Artist&Match=Oscar+Brown+Jr.]The lyrics to Oscar Brown Jr.'s “The Lone Ranger” (1974). ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2005, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joke-with-punchline-what-do-you-mean-we-whiteman/316973/23 "2005-08-15T19:21:30Z")
I thought the punchline was: “What’s this _‘we’_ shit, paleface?” ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joke-with-punchline-what-do-you-mean-we-whiteman/316973/24 "2005-08-16T01:02:48Z")
> [@Pochacco](#): > > _“What do you want Tonto for anyway?”_ > > “To perform an unnatural act.” > > _“What?”_ > > “You heard me: to perform an unnatural act.” > > _“The Mask Man is a fag! God-damn! The Mask Man is a fag! The masked Fag Man! Oh, Lord! I’m getting dizzy … .”_ Are you quoting a cartoon from decades ago? I saw that in the seventies, and practically pissed my pants I was laughing so hard. “And give me that horse, too.” ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joke-with-punchline-what-do-you-mean-we-whiteman/316973/25 "2005-08-16T01:06:23Z")
> [@rjung](#): > > In the words of one of the founding Igors: “We belong dead? Excuthe me? Where doth it thay ‘we’?” Is Igor gay? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joke-with-punchline-what-do-you-mean-we-whiteman/316973/26 "2005-08-16T01:07:27Z")
> [@Ellis Dee](#): > > Are you quoting a cartoon from decades ago? I saw that in the seventies, and practically pissed my pants I was laughing so hard. > > “And give me that horse, too.” Actually, it’s from a Lenny Bruce skit, though they did take part of that skit (“fun with real audio”) and created some animation for it. It did a run on the Spike & Mike touring Animation festival for a few years. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joke-with-punchline-what-do-you-mean-we-whiteman/316973.md?page=1)