# Jokes What Ain't So Big

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-what-aint-so-big/225503>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 21, 2004, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-what-aint-so-big/225503 "2004-01-21T20:20:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ex\_Machina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Ex\_Machina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ex_Machina)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2004, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-what-aint-so-big/225503/1 "2004-01-21T20:20:31Z")

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I was going to call this \*Really Short Jokes \* but I figured folks would think it was short-people jokes, then I was going to call it \*Brief Jokes \* but then people would think it was about funny underwear. So I just called it the next thing that came into my head.

This is the deal: I made up a four-word joke which I posted in another thread. It went like this: Man: “I’m constipated.” Man’s friend: “No shit?”

Today I made up a three word joke: “Sex is boring.”

I then remembered a two word joke from \*Saturday Night Live \* years ago. A scene opened up in an ancient Greek tailor shop. One Greek holding some clothes faces another: 1st man: “Euripides?” 2nd man: “Eumenides?”

So now I’m wondering if there are other very short jokes. Does anybody know any? Can there possibly be a one-worder? There is the one about the prisoners who assigned numbers to jokes but that doesn’t count.

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**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2004, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-what-aint-so-big/225503/2 "2004-01-22T00:39:06Z")

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Seventy-three!

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**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2004, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-what-aint-so-big/225503/3 "2004-01-22T00:48:21Z")

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A one word joke, eh? Hmm… no wait, I got it:

**Bush**.

(Sorry, cheap humour. I don’t really have any political opinions either way, yadda, yadda…)

I’m guessing one word jokes are likely to be self referential in some way, just because it packs more info in.

**3. Re-unobfuscate!**

And of course, if you’re allowed some set up, a lot of jokes have only one line of DIALOG.

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**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2004, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-what-aint-so-big/225503/4 "2004-01-22T00:52:33Z")

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For a truly brief joke, there’s always the classic _“Semper ubi sub ubi.”_

(Answer, for those who haven’t seen this old, old one:)“Always where under where” (Always wear underwear). Nyuk nyuk nyuk.