# Self referencing joke **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 28, 2007, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-referencing-joke/428092 "2007-11-28T21:49:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-referencing-joke/428092/21 "2007-12-01T19:10:15Z")
[QUOTE=Don’t fight the hypothetical] Am I being whooshed are being dense? [/QUOTE] I’m hoping it’s an example of “No soap radio” because I don’t get it and googling it comes up with nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Khampelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-referencing-joke/428092/22 "2007-12-01T23:15:56Z")
It must be in the way it’s told. It’s hysterical, really. (Where the hell is **tdn**?) Awright, if he hasn’t come round by 8pm tonight, I’ll tell another one. ---
**Author:** ![Khampelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-referencing-joke/428092/23 "2007-12-02T17:24:43Z")
On a long, crowded airplane trip, a businessman got very annoyed with a crying infant directly behind him. He was pissed, but didn’t say anything. He lit a big cigar to help himself calm down. Not a minute into his smoke, the mother of the crying infant leaned over. “Put that foul smelly thing out, It’s disturbing my baby.” Enraged, the businessman stood up. “You’ve got a lot of damn gaul, telling me to put my cigar out, when your brat’s been screaming all this time.” “You’re an asshole, mister!” The business man drew his fist back, but as he hesitated about hitting a woman. She took the opportunity to snatch the cigar from his mouth and threw it out the window. That was the last straw. He snatched the infant and threw it out the window. The flight passed much more quietly, if a little tense. When the plane landed, the infant was sitting happily on the wing. Guess what it had in it’s mouth? ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2007, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-referencing-joke/428092/24 "2007-12-02T17:28:56Z")
A red brick! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![grimpixie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@grimpixie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grimpixie)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2007, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-referencing-joke/428092/25 "2007-12-02T17:35:23Z")
[QUOTE=Don’t fight the hypothetical] Freudian slit. [/QUOTE] A friend of mine once told me proudly that she had made a “freudian strip”… Grim ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2007, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-referencing-joke/428092/26 "2007-12-02T19:29:00Z")
[QUOTE=The Sonoran Lizard King] Guess what it had in it’s mouth? Last edited by The Sonoran Lizard King : Today at 11:25 AM. Reason: one apostrophe. [/QUOTE] I hope that wasn’t the apostrophe you added . . . ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2007, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-referencing-joke/428092/27 "2007-12-02T19:40:12Z")
[QUOTE=Scarlett67] I hope that wasn’t the apostrophe you added . . . [/QUOTE] I like to think he added the reference to Asterix. ---
**Author:** ![Khampelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2007, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-referencing-joke/428092/28 "2007-12-02T21:07:11Z")
[QUOTE=Inner Stickler] A red brick! 😃 [/QUOTE] Awwwww, c’mon. You couldn’t wait for someone to guess ‘Cigar’? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-referencing-joke/428092/29 "2007-12-03T00:52:53Z")
When you’re not looking at it, this joke is in Chinese. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-referencing-joke/428092/30 "2007-12-03T02:09:58Z")
**The Sonoran Lizard King** , people were throwing things out of windows on a plane in midair? How did everything else not get sucked out of the window too? ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-referencing-joke/428092/31 "2007-12-03T11:05:03Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] **The Sonoran Lizard King** , people were throwing things out of windows on a plane in midair? How did everything else not get sucked out of the window too? [/QUOTE] That’s not the most obvious problem with the story. People were \*smoking \*on a flight? ---
**Author:** ![Blaster\_Master](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cab0a1/32.png) [@Blaster\_Master](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blaster_Master)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-referencing-joke/428092/32 "2007-12-03T14:37:53Z")
[QUOTE=The Sonoran Lizard King] Guess what it had in it’s mouth? [/QUOTE] Haha… this is my favorite joke ever. The version I’d always used was with a guy building a house and having a brick left over, and with a snooty old lady and a poodle (which was hanging out the window on a leash). …I didn’t think anyone else liked it enough. Whenever I tell it, I get painful groans from everyone around me (which, of course, I find highly amusing). And to answer the critics about the smoking and the opening of the window, since there always seems to be one when I tell it: 1) It’s a joke, get over it. 2) If they don’t like that, then I add the explanation that it’s a small plane flying at low altitude, and it’s at some point in the past when smoking was allowed on planes. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-referencing-joke/428092/33 "2007-12-03T14:40:50Z")
[QUOTE=The Sonoran Lizard King] Awwwww, c’mon. You couldn’t wait for someone to guess ‘Cigar’? 😛 [/QUOTE] I’m sure many people read the joke, thought to themselves, “A cigar?” and then moved on to other things. But I know how mean it is when someone else spoils your joke so I apologize for being hasty and I promise not to do it in the future. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-referencing-joke/428092/34 "2007-12-03T16:29:41Z")
[QUOTE=Peak Banana] That’s not the most obvious problem with the story. People were \*smoking \*on a flight? [/QUOTE] I didn’t understand what the woman having a lot of damn Western Europe property had to do with it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-referencing-joke/428092/35 "2007-12-03T17:20:00Z")
> [@Peak Banana](#): > > That’s not the most obvious problem with the story. People were smoking on a flight? Well, you can still do that in Sonora. ---
**Author:** ![Khampelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2007, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-referencing-joke/428092/36 "2007-12-04T01:37:01Z")
[QUOTE=Inner Stickler] I’m sure many people read the joke, thought to themselves, “A cigar?” and then moved on to other things. But I know how mean it is when someone else spoils your joke so I apologize for being hasty and I promise not to do it in the future. 😉 [/QUOTE] De nada. I should have put a winking smiley, or something. The joke also works best there’s a couple of jokes or stories in between. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2007, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-referencing-joke/428092/37 "2007-12-04T02:53:22Z")
So, what the hell did the baby have in its mouth? ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2007, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-referencing-joke/428092/38 "2007-12-04T04:49:33Z")
A red cigar. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-referencing-joke/428092/39 "2007-12-05T02:34:20Z")
I’m seriously thinking of changing the old name to Freudian Slit. It wouldn’t be inappropriate, though…would it? Hmm. Maybe I should e-mail a mod… ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-referencing-joke/428092/40 "2007-12-05T04:17:06Z")
**Freudian Chips:** The label on the bag says “Ruffles”, but inside they are actually Doritos. **Freudian Dip:** When you reach for French Onion, but accidentally grab the nacho cheese instead. **Freudian Flip:** [Probably looks like this.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz5IhD1Jpho) **Freudian Pip:** Young orphan discovers that rich Miss Havisham is really his mother, which explains why he wants to have sex with her. **Freudian Trip:** Any vacation that involves driving through a tunnel. **Freudian Zip:** The reason why you sometimes leave the bathroom with your fly open. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-referencing-joke/428092.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-referencing-joke/428092.md?page=3)