# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/21 "2009-01-30T00:55:46Z")
> [@Askance](#): > > My nomination would be any word or phrase containing the syllable ‘cock’ or ‘cox’: > > stopcock > cockatoo > coxless four > > and so on.Yeah, I’m fond-a you too. I imagine the residents of Coxsackie, New York, have heard enough. (I’ve heard locals pronounce it something like COOK-sackie, but I’m not buying it.) ---
**Author:** ![CaveMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cavemike/32/16379_2.png) [@CaveMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaveMike)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/22 "2009-01-30T06:52:50Z")
“I got my hair cut yesterday.” “Oh yeah? Which one?” I’m intrigued by the OP because these types of jokes have been bugging me lately. I’d love to have a term, but I can’t offer one. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/23 "2009-01-30T11:50:31Z")
> [@willthekittensurvive](#): > > so like when CNN talks about the about the presidential Ball? I think of them as low-hanging fruit. **Ludovic** , in Soviet Russia, cliched jokes make you. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/24 "2009-01-30T13:51:36Z")
> [@Askance](#): > > Yeah, I’m fond-a you too. You’re kidding. THAT’S the “obvious” fondue joke? ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/25 "2009-01-30T13:58:59Z")
[This thread’s title is one, too.](http://www.zazzle.com/funny_fridge_magnets/joke+magnets) ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/26 "2009-01-30T14:02:15Z")
Straight Line - He don’t count Punch Line - He don’t spell too good either This one was a somewhat inside joke for my friends Straight Line - Oh well! Punch Line - [singing] Don’t ask my bout the shape I’m in. Can’t Sing. Ain’t Pretty and my legs are thin. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/27 "2009-01-30T14:10:35Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > Any use of the word _dike_, but most especially any mention of the putting of a finger therein. I have a co-worker who more than once has referred to “plugging the hole in the dike”. I have to remind myself to be professional. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/28 "2009-01-30T14:33:36Z")
“What’s up?” “The sky.” ---
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/29 "2009-01-30T16:16:29Z")
Hey! …is for horses. ---
**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 30, 2009, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/30 "2009-01-30T16:17:47Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > Me: “I’m tired.” > Mom: “Hi, I’m Cathy!” [stolen from _Robot Chicken_ and elementary school playgrounds around the world] A: I’m so hungry! B: Hello, Mr. Hungry. May I call you So? [/stolen] ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Bongo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a9adbd/32.png) [@Winston\_Bongo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Bongo)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/31 "2009-01-30T16:28:22Z")
A: “You know what?” B: “No, but I know his brother, Who.” I heard that one approximately six million times from my mother when I was a kid. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/32 "2009-01-30T16:36:55Z")
> [@vertizontal](#): > > You can’t talk about the 7th planet from the sun without the obvious joke being uttered within about 3 seconds The changed the name of that planet years ago because of all the jokes. It’s now Urectum. ---
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/33 "2009-01-30T18:32:50Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > “What’s up?” > “The sky.” “It’s an adverb” ---
**Author:** ![Lurking\_Quahog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lurking_quahog/32/21274_2.png) [@Lurking\_Quahog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lurking_Quahog)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/34 "2009-01-30T18:49:48Z")
From the Simpsons: Bart Simpson: Hey, Chalmers, where are you from? Superintendent Chalmers: Well, I was born in Queens, went to Ball state, then made the move to Intercourse, Pennsylvania. Uh, why do you ask? ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/35 "2009-01-30T19:08:30Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > “What’s up?” > “The sky.” For awhile, I couldn’t use my favorite: “the price of gas.” But it’s coming back. Oh, yes. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/36 "2009-01-30T19:10:28Z")
AC: “Can I ask you a question?” Me: “You just did.” AC: “I have a question.” Me: “I might have an answer.” AC: bends over. Me: “Hut one! Hut two!” (or “Red 37! Red 37!”) There are more but I can’t think of 'em right now. Yeah, it’s kinda like we live in a sitcom; her best friends are a 40-something gay man with no teeth and a middleaged pre-op MtF. The condo next door used to be home to a pair of middleaged women of questionable orientation, one of whom was a lying drunk who refused to hold a job more than a few months at a time. ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/37 "2009-01-30T19:13:54Z")
> [@vertizontal](#): > > You can’t talk about the 7th planet from the sun without the obvious joke being uttered within about 3 seconds **Fry** : Pine needles. Oh, man, this is great… hey, as long as you don’t make me smell Uranus. **Leela** : I don’t get it. **Professor Hubert Farnsworth** : I’m sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all. **Fry** : Oh. What’s it called now? **Professor Hubert Farnsworth** : Urrectum. ---
**Author:** ![Nom\_de\_Plume](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/85f322/32.png) [@Nom\_de\_Plume](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nom_de_Plume)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/38 "2009-01-31T03:02:56Z")
Well, as an epileptic priest, I have found that whenever I enter a bar with my best friends, an albino rabbi and a monk with Tourrette’s syndrome, the bartender typically asks “OK guys, what’s the punchline.” IANAL, but can anyone tell me. Do I have a discrimination lawsuit here? ---
**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:** [February 2, 2009, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/39 "2009-02-02T03:52:20Z")
> [@Nom\_de\_Plume](#): > > a monk with Tourrette’s syndrome What does he do, involuntarily sign swear words at people? ---
**Author:** ![Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runs_With_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586/40 "2009-02-02T04:21:50Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > In Russia, there are no terms that are so cliched that there is always an immediately obvious joke to be made. In Soviet Russia, joke makes you! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-joke-magnets/483586.md?page=3)