Pete and Repeat joke

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Do you remember this childhood joke?

Pete and Repeat went out in a boat. Pete fell in. Who was left? Repeat. Pete and Repeat when out in a boat. Pete fell in. Who was left?… I remember being so tickled with myself when I told that joke to adults.

The above is quoted, I looked it up. Was talking to Mom, and the subject of “repeats” on TV came up, and I remembered the joke, when I was 10 or so my older cousin told it to me. Had to look it up to remember the details. We both laughed at the silliness of it.

But if there is a link on the web about the joke, I can’t be the only one who remembers it.

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I do remember that, as a child in the 1960s.

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Yes, I remember it. Also, “Patience, jack ass, patience!”

And, “Adam and Eve and Pinch-me-tight…”

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I remember the Pete/Repeat joke from an episode of Monk.

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Me too. And I’ve taught it to my 7-year-old twins, so it will live on. . . .

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There’s a… kind of similar thing in Romanian. I’ll try to give an approximate translation: One sunny morning, Cancer Case crossed the river. Soon afterwards, Tumor crossed the river too. How many of them crossed the river? Most people will answer two, but the “real” answer is three because Tumor should be interpreted as “two more”.

There is a more similar one, where the protagonists are two fellows named If and Maybe, who really went out in a boat the result being a really confusing hypothetical situation, but I find it too hard to translate.

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My cousins (about a decade younger than me) loved telling this to me back in the day. Over and over again. I would just say “repeat” each time. And then I finally told them, “You do know you’re going to get tired out a lot sooner than I will, right?”

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I remember the “patience, jackass, patience” joke from jr. high school in the mid-60’s. There was another joke ending with “That’s for suckers like you!” Anybody else remember that one?

Here’s one my father loved to tell:

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Pete and Repeat sat on a fence in my childhood.

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If Antonio told the story of Pete and Repeat, would Antonio’s tale get repeated as well, or only Pete and Repeat’s story?

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Don’t recall where I first heard this but my kids would watch a Shari Lewis video with this joke in it. For all I know I might have heard it on her TV show when I was a little kid.

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LOL I just told a version of this joke over last weekend to my little cousin… it had been passed on to me when I was little my an older (distant) cousin of mine…

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It’s great when a new crop of kids comes along who are unfamiliar with Pete & Repeat.

Anyone else remember the Pea Green Soup joke? It was all the rage back in my day.

mmm

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My dad sprung that joke on me very early in my life. Along with many other similar ‘dad’ jokes. I also inflicted them on my kids.

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My name is Peter. When I was very little, I was relentlessly teased with the Pete and Repeat riddle by seemly every adult I knew. I never saw it as a funny joke.

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I remember my first grade teacher trying to tell the class the Pete/Repeat joke. Except it wasn’t a boat, they were sitting on a fence. Either she wasn’t telling it right or we were all too young to understand, because when she’d say “Pete fell off, who was left?”, the whole class would answer “RE!”

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Heh. That’s a lot like the one about Benoit Mandelbrot adding a middle initial “B” to his name. When asked what the “B” stood for, he’d say, “Benoit B. Mandelbrot.”

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What’s the difference between roast beef and pea green soup?

Anybody can roast beef.

That one?

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Remember this card?

How do you keep an idiot busy?
(over)

[same on reverse]

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Not the one I learned, but the same pun was involved. The teller instructs the listener to answer each question with “pea green soup”:

“What did you have for breakfast yesterday?” “Pea green soup.”
“What did you have for lunch?” “Pea green soup.”
“What did you have for supper?” “Pea green soup.”
“What did you do all night?” “Pea green soup.”