# Jokes that take time to sink in **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 1, 2005, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-take-time-to-sink-in/333519 "2005-12-01T04:56:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-take-time-to-sink-in/333519/141 "2016-03-01T16:09:18Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Sorry, I am in the position of owning a stag with a white cane. I have no idea. BANG! I just shot your stag with a cane. Does that help? ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-take-time-to-sink-in/333519/142 "2016-03-01T16:46:45Z")
Not even slightly. Is that a pegleg reference? I’m sorry, but you have to be a bit more than obvious. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-take-time-to-sink-in/333519/143 "2016-03-01T16:47:15Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Color? > [ul][li]The girl is a pirate, and the “color” is silver, as in Long John Silver, Or[/li][li]“Humdinger” is a reference to a “hummer”.[/li][li]The parrot pecked out her eye somehow. Or[/li][li]This another “no soap, radio” joke.[/ul]Sorry, I am in the position of owning a stag with a white cane. I have no idea.[/li] > Regards, > Shodan I’m with Cochrane and Shodan, I don’t get it either. One more, this from Robin Williams as an example of a joke that could be told by Steven Hawking at MIT: “Rene Decartes walks into a bar. The Bartender asks him “do you want a drink.” he says “I think not” and disappears…” ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-take-time-to-sink-in/333519/144 "2016-03-01T17:02:01Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > A naked lady walks up to a party and tries to get in. The host explains, “This is a costume party, you can’t just walk around with no clothes on. You need to represent something.” She says OK and returns later wearing only black gloves and black shoes. The host now frustrated says, “What are you dressed as?” > > “The five of spades.” It’s been 11 years and I finally got this one. Look at a picture of the 5 of Spades and imagine the naked lady has black hair. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-take-time-to-sink-in/333519/145 "2016-03-01T18:21:53Z")
When I was eight, it took me a full year (since my parents never would explain it), to figure out what was so funny about their friend Pierre, the dehydrated Frenchman. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-take-time-to-sink-in/333519/146 "2016-03-01T18:40:45Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > I’ve gotten every joke in this thread, except the OP and Derleth’s post resurrection one. Li’l help. > > Assuming, of course, I’m correct in that not getting Tibby’s second joke _is_ the joke. Here’s mine:[spoiler]One of the stories about the origin of the name barbiturates is that barbituric acids were synthesized from the urine of a Munich waitress named Barbara. That’s not the most likely of the possible origins, but it was synthesized from urine. The other three jokes are: Tomatoes are a natural source of glutamates. Not adding MSG to ketchup is like not adding sugar to an orange. Matoke are green bananas, rich in 5-HTP, which is bad for the heart because it raises serotonin levels. People with major depression are already on SSRIs, so feeding them matoke is a good way to make that metaphoric heartbreak into an actually, physically broken heart. Fruit juice is sweet because of fructose. This is essentially the same joke as the first one.[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-take-time-to-sink-in/333519/147 "2016-03-01T18:42:25Z")
> [@Tibby or Not Tibby](#): > > Don’t be embarrassed. We can’t all be Nobel Prize laureates…nor understand the definition of “color.” 😃 OK, stop teasing us. Just spoiler the damn thing. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-take-time-to-sink-in/333519/148 "2016-03-01T18:46:27Z")
A piece of string walks into a bar. The bartender yells at him to get out since they don’t serve string there. He walks out and asks a passing stranger to tie him up and mess up his ends a little. He goes back in and the bartender says, “Aren’t you that piece of string I threw out a minute ago?”. The string replied, “No, I’m afraid not.” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-take-time-to-sink-in/333519/149 "2016-03-01T18:50:19Z")
This might be slightly politically incorrect, but WTH: Hear about the inmate at the insane asylum who got out of his cell, sexually assaulted a nurse, and escaped? The headline the next day read NUT SCREWS AND BOLTS ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-take-time-to-sink-in/333519/150 "2016-03-01T18:55:56Z")
What’s the difference between the Panama Canal and a blonde? The Panama Canal’s a busy ditch. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-take-time-to-sink-in/333519/151 "2016-03-01T19:27:22Z")
> [@Tibby or Not Tibby](#): > > Other jokes are even more obvious, but there’s always a couple people of dubious intellect who don’t get it right away, like: > _Two guys are walking down the street when a one-eyed girl with a parrot on her shoulder passes by. The one guy **say’s** to the other, “that gal’s a real humdinger.”_ > It always amazes when those mental midgets actually admit it took them a while to get the joke, or even more embarrassingly, that they didn’t get it at all! :rolleyes: Speaking of mental midgets and dubious intellect, it’s _says_, not “say’s.” ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-take-time-to-sink-in/333519/152 "2016-03-01T20:22:55Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > Speaking of mental midgets and dubious intellect, it’s _says_, not “say’s.” Say’s who? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-take-time-to-sink-in/333519/153 "2016-03-01T20:25:13Z")
Stupid thread. BE MORE FUNNY! ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-take-time-to-sink-in/333519/154 "2016-03-01T22:07:01Z")
> [@Tibby or Not Tibby](#): > > Say’s who? :rolleyes: Says the stableboy. BTW, you told your joke wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-take-time-to-sink-in/333519/155 "2016-03-01T22:18:18Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > BANG! > > I just shot your stag with a cane. Does that help? > [@Shodan](#): > > Not even slightly. Still no idea? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-take-time-to-sink-in/333519/156 "2016-03-01T22:24:39Z")
Did you hear about the mathematician who hated negative numbers so much he’d stop at nothing to avoid them? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-take-time-to-sink-in/333519/157 "2016-03-01T22:43:50Z")
> [@Totenfeier](#): > > It doesn’t take a while for that joke to sink into you; it takes a while - a good while - for you to sink into that joke. If you do it right! In Soviet Russia, you sink into aristocrats! ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-take-time-to-sink-in/333519/158 "2016-03-01T23:57:52Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > Hear about the inmate at the insane asylum who got out of his cell, sexually assaulted a nurse, and escaped? > > The headline the next day read NUT SCREWS AND BOLTS I heard it was the staff of the laundry he attacked: NUT SCREWS WASHERS AND BOLTS. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-take-time-to-sink-in/333519/159 "2016-03-02T01:15:59Z")
During Spring Break on the beach in Florida I walked past a girl in a wheelchair, sobbing. I asked her what was wrong, and she said, “My girlfriends talked me into coming with them on Spring Break and that it’ll be a wild party. Well, I’ve been here three days and I’ve never been fucked.” I told her I’d be willing to help her, and she readily agreed. So I took her wheelchair and pushed her into the ocean, up to her chin, then I turned around and walked back to the beach. She yells out, “What’s up with this?” I said, “Now you’re fucked!” ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-take-time-to-sink-in/333519/160 "2016-03-02T01:42:21Z")
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