Really funny, sorta' rude, joke -- but I gotta' share it

[tdn]

@WordMan

Ah - there you go. I actually have heard that genre of joke, but Trevor is an uncommon-enough name in the U.S., that I thought it might be a specific reference…

I think it works much better as “Bob? You have a drink named Bob?”

[WordMan]

@tdn

I think it works much better as “Bob? You have a drink named Bob?”

Exactly! Okay, so maybe I am not a humorless git…just a regular, run-of-the-mill git! I feel so much better…

[brewha]

@tdn

I think it works much better as “Bob? You have a drink named Bob?”

I first heard it with the name Steve. I think it works cause Steve is just a funny name for a grasshopper.

[Sunrazor]

@Heffalump and Roo

Much, much worse. I thought the joke had something to do with the cat in the Bloom County comic strip. (Why am I revealing this? :o )

Now that’s I’ve also googled Orlando Bloom, I don’t even get the joke.

I think it’s a commentary on the actor’s penchant for swashbuckling roles, his young-girls’-heart-stopping good looks and the jealousy of “real men” toward a cinematic icon. He doesn’t really do any of the things he pretends to do on film – he’s a pussy, can’t hold his own in a bar fight, all looks and no substance. But he’s definitely not gay, so looking at female genitalia is arousing to him. So, ultimately, it’s a play on words, a crude pun. As if Dick Cheney complained that every time a beautiful young woman started to talk to him, he froze up, became completely rigid and unable to think. Because, of course, he’s a prick.

And, it occurs to me, women probably wouldn’t find that funny, either. Women don’t care for genitalia jokes unless Kathy Griffin is telling them.

[Onomatopoeia]

@Heffalump and Roo

Now that’s I’ve also googled Orlando Bloom, I don’t even get the joke.

and

@Hilarity N. Suze

I don’t know why you laughed, either. Relief that the joke was mercifully short?

Watch Troy. You’ll both get the joke. I thought it was funny.

@don't ask

I will be telling that with a four letter ending.

Doing so would change what makes the joke funny, IMO.

[Peter_Morris]

edit: never mind

[Telperien]

@Sunrazor

Women don’t care for genitalia jokes unless Kathy Griffin is telling them.

Why? No joke she tells is funny.

[AskNott]

A Grasshopper hops into a bar. Orlando Bloom, the bartender asks, “What’ll you have, Trevor?”
“A gin and tonic, piece of lime, please.”
Bloom the bartender holds the gin and tonic in the palm of his hand. “Can you snatch this drink from my hand, grasshopper?”
The grasshopper hops up on the bar, grabs the drink, and kicks Bloom to the floor. The grasshopper sips the drink, looks down and says, “Pussy.”
Alternative punch line: “You’re the snatch, Orlando.”

[Onomatopoeia]

@AskNott

A Grasshopper hops into a bar. Orlando Bloom, the bartender asks, “What’ll you have, Trevor?”
“A gin and tonic, piece of lime, please.”
Bloom the bartender holds the gin and tonic in the palm of his hand. “Can you snatch this drink from my hand, grasshopper?”
The grasshopper hops up on the bar, grabs the drink, and kicks Bloom to the floor. The grasshopper sips the drink, looks down and says, “Pussy.”

Haaaaahahahahahaa! Love it!

[Beware_of_Doug]

@Telperien

Why? No joke [Kathy Griffin] tells is funny.

Her genitalia humor is probably better received because her audience knows hers aren’t in regular use.

[Hostile_Dialect]

@AskNott

A Grasshopper hops into a bar. Orlando Bloom, the bartender asks, “What’ll you have, Trevor?”
“A gin and tonic, piece of lime, please.”
Bloom the bartender holds the gin and tonic in the palm of his hand. “Can you snatch this drink from my hand, grasshopper?”
The grasshopper hops up on the bar, grabs the drink, and kicks Bloom to the floor. The grasshopper sips the drink, looks down and says, “Pussy.”
Alternative punch line: “You’re the snatch, Orlando.”

Brilliant!

[AskNott]

@Onomatopoeia

Haaaaahahahahahaa! Love it!

Thank you, thank you very much. And thank you, Hostile Dialect. It’s not often I get a chance to patch together two and a half jokes and a 007 reference.

[C3]

@Beware of Doug

Her genitalia humor is probably better received because her audience knows hers aren’t in regular use.

Actually, she’s engaged to Steve Wozniak. Isn’t that bizarre?

[LightWithoutHeattttttttttttttt]

@brewha

I first heard it with the name Steve. I think it works cause Steve is just a funny name for a grasshopper.

I think it works even better with Trevor BECAUSE it is not as common of a name.

[Khampelf]

@brewha

I first heard it with the name Steve. I think it works cause Steve is just a funny name for a grasshopper.

My grasshopper is named ‘Gary’, when I tell the joke.

[KneadToKnow]

@Brynda

While on a long car journey, a penguin’s car breaks down. He leaves it at the garage to be fixed and waits in the ice cream shop next door. A few hours later, he wanders over to the garage.

The mechanic says, “Looks like you blew a seal.”

“Oh, no” the penguin replies. “Milkshake.”

(If you don’t get this, imagine the pengin wiping off his beak)

I hate, hate, hate the fact that I would love to steal that and there’s not really any one I can get away with telling it to.

[interface2x]

@The Sonoran Lizard King

My grasshopper is named ‘Gary’, when I tell the joke.

My grasshopper is named Neil.

[rbroome]

@Leaffan

Am I the only one who had to Google Orlando Bloom?

well, I would have to if I wanted to know.
Orlando Bloom? Sounds like a Florida Flower.

[Richard_Pearse]

@don't ask

I will be telling that with a four letter ending.

@Onomatopoeia

Doing so would change what makes the joke funny, IMO.

I think there’s something about how American’s use the word “pussy” that is getting lost in the translation in this joke. I know intellectually how you guys use it but I suspect because it’s not really a part of my culture, it makes the joke unfunny. Or maybe it’s just not very funny anyway.

[PharmBoy]

@1920s Style "Death Ray"

I think there’s something about how American’s use the word “pussy” that is getting lost in the translation in this joke. I know intellectually how you guys use it but I suspect because it’s not really a part of my culture, it makes the joke unfunny. Or maybe it’s just not very funny anyway.

Or, maybe you have no sense of humor.

One thing is for sure: you do not know how to use the apostrophe.

“Americans” is the plural of American.

“American’s” means either “American is” (which really doesn’t make sense, or the possessive form.

Grammar - It’s important, even on message boards.