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please will someone explain this to me?
I’ve heard it several times before but I don’t get it…
Obviously I understand that if Prince Albert was in a tin he would suffocate but… is this the name of a product or something? I feel like I’m missing a double meaning here.
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It’s a prank call, and besides he told it wrong. See, what you do is, you call the drugstore, you ask, “Pardon me, do you have Prince Albert in a can?” When the clerk says “Yes,” you say,“Great, I’ll be right down there to buy some!” And then you DON’T GO!
Anyone remember the moron jokes? They’re subtly different from the Polack jokes. A bit more innocent, read like they were aimed at an audience of children (how times have changed!), and likelier to be based on puns. Like, “Why did the moron cut the noses off his fish? So they wouldn’t smell!” Or, “Why did the moron throw the alarm clock out the window? Because he wanted to see time fly!”
He said, “Well, what do you know? You’re only 8 years old!”
…and now for one of the worst jokes ever…
[spoiler]Two necrophiliacs were talking. One asked the other whether he was still seeing the 80-year-old that he had been with the last time they talked. He said…
[QUOTE=Yllaria]
Is anyone old enough to remember Woman Driver jokes? I remember that they existed, but don’t remember any specifics.
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In a Simpsons episode, Homer is turned on to Reading Digest magazine by a cartoon titled “Motoring Ms. Haps” depicting a car that has been crushed after being driving into a lamppost. The woman says to her husband, “Well, honey, you always said you wanted a compact!”