I can think of two punchlines to dirty jokes which have made their way into common, non-“dirty” use: “Don’t make waves.” and “Tonight’s your night in the barrell.” Are there any others?
I don’t know what “Tonight’s your night in the barrell” means, either dirty or non-dirty.
And I don’t know what the dirty origin of “don’t make waves” is.
Please enlighten.
(And am I in the minority in not knowing this?)
-FrL-
20 bucks, same as in town.
BTW, isn’t this topic more appropriate for IMHO?
“Don’t make waves”? Really? Okay, this post deserves to stay in GQ at least long enough to get the background on that one.
I didn’t know “your night in the barrel” was common enough to use in “polite company” yet. I always think of the joke whenever I hear it mentioned.
Okay, I was in a fraternity and all, but I don’t know either of those jokes, apparently.
“$20 bucks, same as in town.” Heh.
I don’t know the “Don’t make waves” joke, but the “barrel” joke goes like this: A man starts a new job (or starts on an army base, etc), and his supervisor tells him he can stick his “member” in a nearby barrel any night for a blow job. Then man says “Wow! That’s great! I can do this any night?” The supervisor replies, “Well, any night except for Tuesdays.” The man says, “Why not Tuesday?” “Because Tuesday is your night in the barrel.”
–FCOD
I’ve always heard “don’t make waves” to mean “don’t rock the boat,” divorced from any dirty joke.
A similar joke to the barrel one, where I’ve heard the punchline out of context, is “Coffee break’s over. Back on your heads.”
I suppose it is possible that both of these jokes used as punchlines expressions already in common use, but I first heard the jokes 50 years ago. In any case, for those who are unfamiliar with them: Joke #!. A young man went to work in a lumber camp 50 miles from the nearest woman. The other lumberjacks told him not to worry since they had a substitute. That night they took him to a tent with a big barrel in which was a knot hole. He was told to “have his way with the barrel.” He did, that night and for several other nights. One evening about ten days later he asked when they were going to go to the barrel and was told “You can’t go tonight. Tonight’s your night in the barrel.” The expression has come to mean something like “You’ve been getting a free ride for a while. Now you have to do your share.” Joke #2. A man dies and goes to the lowest circle of Hell. The devil takes him out on the lake in a small boat. The man notices that there are many people in the lake standing on their tip toes with the water up to their chins. He also notices that the lake is of urine in which are many floating turds. As the devil picks him up and gets ready to throw him into the lake, he hears the people already there yelling “Don’t make waves!”
I think this one is better suited to a forum such as MPSIMS.
Moved. samclem
“Everybody.”
Well, it helps if you know the penultimate line:
“Who paid you a nickel?”
“Welcome to Jamaica, mon, have a nice day!”
“The Aristocrats”
I’m sure you would, but she’s got seniority.
Well, I guess I know now where I left my fountain pen.
Not quite in the spirit of the OP but many years ago on Johnny Carson, he was saying punch lines, and one of them was, “Most guys just leave her hanging on the hook.” Amazed me that he would refer to that on TV in those days even though it was just the punch line.
Umm… what’s the joke? (Do I want to know?)
-FrL-
Death by Bunda!!!
:eek:
“Why do you ask, Two-Dogs-Fucking?”
(my all time favorite joke, btw)
… altho, on a more careful reading of the OP… i don’t guess this has found it’s way into common, non-dirty joke useage lol :smack:
Actually, I was going to post that punch line. I often hear people say, to friends, “why do you ask, two dogs?”, after the friend has asked a question.
There is also a hardware store in Australia called Home Hardware. They have two dogs as mascots and often have the phrase “two dogs” in their advertising. I can only think that they are referencing the joke. In one of their recent ad campaigns the dogs are talking to each other about building a shed. It turns out that one of the dogs is going to paint his shed turquioise. The other dog remarks that it’ll stick out like “you know… [whistling sound and squeezing low down paw gesture]”, to which they both start laughing. So their humour is definitely a bit riske.
“We use the camel to ride into town!”
-and-
“Oh him? He has a better insurance plan.”