I offer to tell the guy something, wait for him to encourage me to do so, and then explain that I’m not as smart as somebody else.
I’m voting for “give us the solution” at this point, but if others want to keep going, please feel free.
Should I split the difference with a hint?
I think we’re pretty well stuck, so yeah, a hint might be good.
I’m saying it in response to being told a joke.
didn’t we already establish that this isn’t an “knock knock..Whos’ there…interupting rabbit” type joke?
I seem to recall this was asked and the answer was ‘no’…but I didn’t easily find that this question was already asked and denied as the answer.
Right; there’s no interruption.
well, I mean …‘no interruption’ is the joke…
I go to a mark and tell them the ‘interrupting cow, knock knock joke.’ Then I tell them "now you do me…but do ‘interrupting rabbit’ . So my foil falls for it and says knock knock…but after they say ‘interrupting rabbit’ they are at a loss for how such a rabbit would interrupt.
so “Right, there’s no interruption” is the joke where other people laugh at my targeted foil.
Ah, got it. No, it’s nothing like that; they tell a joke that doesn’t really require me to say anything; following that, I deliver a quick set-up, pause long enough to get their encouragement to proceed, and then I keep talking at ‘em — by insulting, if anything, only myself — until other people laugh and he doesn’t.
in the 4 times this has happened. Were they telling you the same joke that you had heard from the previous people? Or is the joke they are telling different…and irrelevent…to your follow up?
It’s not the same joke that I’d heard from previous ones, but (a) it could’ve been, because (b) it’s the same kind of joke, which is relevant.