# Jokes you'll have to explain **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 23, 2014, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-youll-have-to-explain/684335 "2014-03-23T02:54:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2014, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-youll-have-to-explain/684335/1 "2014-03-23T02:54:33Z")
This is for jokes that you feel are so inside or obscure you’ll be asked to explain them, but you can’t keep to yourself. Did you hear the one about the Cockney girl who moved to America because she wanted to do a heroic act? Why did the programmer only take a part of her meal? Because it was curried. I’d tell a joke about fine-grained address allocation here, but you are all too classy. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2014, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-youll-have-to-explain/684335/2 "2014-03-23T03:08:00Z")
That’s about as useful as a bundling board with a knothole. ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-youll-have-to-explain/684335/3 "2014-03-24T05:14:07Z")
And I thought, “Who led the Pedants’ Revolt in 1381?” was an obscure joke! Which Tyler ---
**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-youll-have-to-explain/684335/4 "2014-03-26T06:40:34Z")
Three logicians walk in to a bar, bartender asks “Would you three like a drink?” The first logician says “I don’t know” The second logician says “I don’t know” The third logician says “Yes” ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-youll-have-to-explain/684335/5 "2014-03-26T06:48:49Z")
Latin students never decline sex ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-youll-have-to-explain/684335/6 "2014-03-26T07:20:38Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > That’s about as useful as a bundling board with a knothole. Is this in reference to the Amish practice of bundling? ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-youll-have-to-explain/684335/7 "2014-03-26T12:27:35Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > This is for jokes that you feel are so inside or obscure you’ll be asked to explain them, but you can’t keep to yourself. > > Did you hear the one about the Cockney girl who moved to America because she wanted to do a heroic act? > > Why did the programmer only take a part of her meal? Because it was curried. > > I’d tell a joke about fine-grained address allocation here, but you are all too classy. Okay, I get the one about address allocation, but the other two defeat me. I’m surprised I didn’t get the one about programming, but clearly it’s too obscure. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-youll-have-to-explain/684335/8 "2014-03-26T12:39:51Z")
> [@Alan\_Smithee](#): > > And I thought, “Who led the Pedants’ Revolt in 1381?” was an obscure joke! Which Tyler I saw a funny cartoon about that the other day. The King is confronting the revolutionaries and saying, “I thought there’d be less of you,” and they shout “FEWER!”. ---
**Author:** ![eclectic\_wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac91a4/32.png) [@eclectic\_wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eclectic_wench)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-youll-have-to-explain/684335/9 "2014-03-26T13:28:50Z")
> [@Alan\_Smithee](#): > > And I thought, “Who led the Pedants’ Revolt in 1381?” was an obscure joke! Which Tyler Bwahahaha!!! ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-youll-have-to-explain/684335/10 "2014-03-26T14:18:00Z")
Who was big and grey and the father of Alexander the Great? [SPOILER]Phillip of Mastodon! (In all the years I have been telling that joke, only one person, a Classics major, has been able to guess the punchline!) [/SPOILER] ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-youll-have-to-explain/684335/11 "2014-03-26T14:55:09Z")
What makes us think mastodons were grey? ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-youll-have-to-explain/684335/12 "2014-03-26T17:44:11Z")
There’s no “i” in “denial” ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-youll-have-to-explain/684335/13 "2014-03-26T17:48:12Z")
> [@solost](#): > > There’s no “i” in “denial” , said the drowning Egyptian. ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-youll-have-to-explain/684335/14 "2014-03-26T17:50:18Z")
Reminds me of the jokes my high school Chemistry teacher and I would tell each other. I don’t remember them now, but you had to have a grasp of quantum physics to get the punchline of many of them. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-youll-have-to-explain/684335/15 "2014-03-26T17:55:59Z")
Shouldn’t be a problem here, but this joke usually garners blank stares: Cop pulls over a quantum physicist for speeding. He walks up to the window and asks “Sir, do you have any idea how fast you were going?” And the physicist says “No, but I know exactly where I am.” Also, there are 10 types of people; those who know binary and those who don’t. I freely admit too only getting about 1/4 of the previously posted jokes in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-youll-have-to-explain/684335/16 "2014-03-26T19:46:33Z")
So where are the explanations for these jokes? Not for me, of course, no, I get every one of them. But others might need some help. Yeah, that’s what I meant, others. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-youll-have-to-explain/684335/17 "2014-03-26T19:56:26Z")
So Duke Ellington dies and goes to Heaven. St. Peter meets him at the pearly gates. “Hey, Duke!” he says. “We’ve been waiting for you to lead Heaven’s band. You can have anyone you want. Charlie Parker on alto? Got 'im! John Coltrane on tenor? Got 'im! You can take your pick - you can even have Jimi Hendrix on guitar if you want.” Then St. Peter draws a little nearer to the Duke and lowers his voice. “But…uh…for the singer…well, God’s got this girl…” ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-youll-have-to-explain/684335/18 "2014-03-26T20:21:43Z")
> [@Dervorin](#): > > Okay, I get the one about address allocation, but the other two defeat me. I’m surprised I didn’t get the one about programming, but clearly it’s too obscure. I only got the one about the Cockney girl - try reading the joke (mentally) with a Cockney accent, most importantly dropping the “h” off “heroic.” ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-youll-have-to-explain/684335/19 "2014-03-26T23:37:29Z")
> [@Octarine](#): > > I only got the one about the Cockney girl - try reading the joke (mentally) with a Cockney accent, most importantly dropping the “h” off “heroic.” Nope. Still nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-youll-have-to-explain/684335/20 "2014-03-26T23:43:37Z")
> [@Reeses\_Monkey](#): > > Nope. Still nothing. Huh. I might be totally misinterpreting the joke and reading into things that aren’t there . . . I think “heroic” turns into “eroic” which turns into “erotic.” Maybe I need to get my mind out of the gutter. 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-youll-have-to-explain/684335.md?page=2)