Some jokes take a moment or two to sink in, like:
Joke Teller: *Did you hear about that case of the diabetic patient with the gangrenous leg who’s inebriated surgeon amputated the wrong leg?
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Joke recipient : No, what happened?
Joke Teller: Well, the poor fellow’s other leg eventually fell off. He sued the surgeon for malpractice, but the case was thrown out of court.
Joke recipient: …Why?
Joke Teller: The judge told him he didn’t have a leg to stand on.
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: