A: “Well, that’s a highly debatable assumption. First, one only sees a small fraction of the Terran population on the show, so there is no reason to assume that any ethnic group is unrepresented in that vision of the future. Secondly, there have been several notable characters played by actors of Hispanic descent. Recently, these include Robert Beltran (Chakotay) and Roxann Dawson (B’Elanna Torres). Interestingly enough, Dawson seems to have changed her last name from Caballero, perhaps in order to reduce the risk of being typecast because of her ethnicity. Star Trek in general seems to be very progressive with respect to using diverse casts, as evidenced by the first interracial kiss on The Original Series, and the introduction of Chekov during the height of the Cold War.”
btw, i actually saw that happen once, though it was an imam, a priest & a rabbi, and it was a tenant’s association meeting. only like five of us got the joke. but then, there were only about a dozen tenants at the meeting. still, for some reason, it’s funnier if you say “bar.” don’t know why.
A naieve young priest was walking through town when a prostitute apporached him and said “Want a blowjob? $20”. The priest was puzzled and returned to the parish. Once there he asked a nun “what’s a blowjob?”
The sister, who was considerably more worldly though no less pious, blushed and refused to answer.
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are on a camping holiday. Holmes wakes Watson in the small hours and says “Watson, look up and tell me what you see.” “I see the night sky,” says Watson, “and thousands of stars,” “Now,” says Holmes, “remembering all I have taught you about observation and logical thinking, what do you deduce?” “Well,” says Watson, “obviously someone has stolen our tent while we were asleep, or I would be seeing canvas, not the night sky.”
It’s a Saturday evening. A man goes up to the register in a supermarket, bearing a sixer of beer, a bag of chips, some dip, a pint of ice cream, and toilet paper. The cashier says, “Single, huh?”
The man laughs and says, “Yeah, how can you tell?”
This is an unusual thread. The OP has absolutely nothing to do with the thread title. It contains no jokes and no punchlines. Fortunately, some of the other posts in the thread have saved it.
The link in my OP points to a post on another site wherein the punchlines of jokes have been replaced with more realistic answers, funny or not. The joke in the OP is from that other site. The humor here lies in knowing the original joke and finding a realistic ending instead of a punchline.
For example, the “correct” answer (punchline) to the joke in my OP is:
A: “Because it takes place in the future.”
The “joke” being that Mexicans, for some reason, no longer exist by the time of Star Trek. Perhaps they’ve all been killed. “Mexican” in this joke can be replaced with any race or nationality - when first heard the joke, it was Iranians rather than Mexicans.
Menocchio and Malacandra appear to understand how this works. The rest, not so much.
A grasshopper walked into a bar and the bartender said, “We have a drink named after you!” The grasshopper continued walking, as grasshoppers don’t understand English and don’t speak, either.
