# Obvious joke magnets **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 29, 2009, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586 "2009-01-29T18:16:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Controvert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/1 "2009-01-29T18:16:30Z")
Is there a word or term for cliched jokes that are so obvious that almost nobody can resist making the obvious joke? For example, “fondue”. Feel free to give other examples. ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/2 "2009-01-29T20:23:51Z")
Okay, I’ll bite … what’s the obvious joke about the word fondue? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/3 "2009-01-29T20:30:39Z")
> [@Sauron](#): > > Okay, I’ll bite … what’s the obvious joke about the word fondue? Bwhaaaa… oh man, you tell that one better than anyone. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/4 "2009-01-29T20:35:40Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Bwhaaaa… oh man, you tell that one better than anyone. Well, maybe, if he could get the accent right. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/5 "2009-01-29T20:38:48Z")
> [@Sauron](#): > > Okay, I’ll bite … what’s the obvious joke about the word fondue? “Fondue? More like fondon’t!” Okay, I got nothin’. I’m with you. ---
**Author:** ![vertizontal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ad7895/32.png) [@vertizontal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vertizontal)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/6 "2009-01-29T20:41:32Z")
You can’t talk about the 7th planet from the sun without the obvious joke being uttered within about 3 seconds ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/7 "2009-01-29T20:41:36Z")
“Do you need a hand?” “Yes.” ::clap clap clap I’d call it “that old chestnut”. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/8 "2009-01-29T20:42:40Z")
> [@vertizontal](#): > > You can’t talk about the 7th planet from the sun without the obvious joke being uttered within about 3 seconds Now you’re just talking out your anus. ---
**Author:** ![Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dread_pirate_jimbo/32/3897_2.png) [@Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dread_Pirate_Jimbo)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/9 "2009-01-29T20:47:55Z")
Anytime anyone asks me if I’d like to join them, I feel duty-bound to answer, “Why? Are you falling apart?” And then I giggle like a school girl for a while. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/10 "2009-01-29T20:52:24Z")
Wak this way. ---
**Author:** ![willthekittensurvive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@willthekittensurvive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/willthekittensurvive)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/11 "2009-01-29T20:56:27Z")
so like when CNN talks about the about the presidential Ball? ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/12 "2009-01-29T21:00:45Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Wak this way. What’s a “wak”? I’ll go with: “Rectum? Nearly killed 'im!” ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/13 "2009-01-29T21:02:10Z")
If I could wok that way I’d start my own oriental restaurant. ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Joe_Meager)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/14 "2009-01-29T21:09:09Z")
When someone asks an “or” question, simply answering “yes”. “Would you like chocolate or vanilla ice cream?” “Yes. Yes, I would.” ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/15 "2009-01-29T21:15:06Z")
Or “does it have to be mutually exclusive?” like the late Earl Warren ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/16 "2009-01-29T21:16:12Z")
Them: "Surely you’re not going to . . . " Me: . . . and don’t call me Shirley ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/17 "2009-01-29T21:16:14Z")
In Russia, there are no terms that are so cliched that there is always an immediately obvious joke to be made. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/18 "2009-01-29T23:30:40Z")
Any use of the word _dike_, but most especially any mention of the putting of a finger therein. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/19 "2009-01-30T00:25:20Z")
My nomination would be any word or phrase containing the syllable ‘cock’ or ‘cox’: stopcock cockatoo coxless four and so on. > [@Sauron](#): > > Okay, I’ll bite … what’s the obvious joke about the word fondue? Yeah, I’m fond-a you too. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/20 "2009-01-30T00:36:52Z")
Me: “I’m tired.” Mom: “Hi, I’m Cathy!” “I’m hungry.” “Hi, I’m Cathy.” “I’m thirsty.” “Hi, I’m Cathy.” Mom never got tired of that stupid joke. My friend: “I feel like Chinese.” Me: poke. “You don’t feel like Chinese to me.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586.md?page=2)