# Tell me about this very common joke type **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comedian-jokes\ **Created:** [January 4, 2021, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-this-very-common-joke-type/929644 "2021-01-04T18:13:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Eclipse\_Chaser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Eclipse\_Chaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eclipse_Chaser)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-this-very-common-joke-type/929644/21 "2021-01-05T09:29:21Z")
I don’t get that one at all. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-this-very-common-joke-type/929644/22 "2021-01-05T10:44:39Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > > [@Hampshire](#): > > > > “Harsh On” is just some hipster phrase my teenage daughter might use in a text message. > > This information would have been more useful to me four hours ago. Dammit, **Hampshire** , you kept him waiting _four hours!_ Harsh on clocks. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-this-very-common-joke-type/929644/23 "2021-01-05T16:14:34Z")
> [@Eclipse\_Chaser](#): > > I don’t get that one at all. I don’t get what you don’t get, unless you don’t get that “hot” means angry. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-this-very-common-joke-type/929644/24 "2021-01-05T16:35:12Z")
Sigh, I miss having coffee next to that one table of confused old guys… where one of them tells a joke and the rest spend the next ten minutes trying to figure it out. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-this-very-common-joke-type/929644/25 "2021-01-05T16:48:44Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Harsh on clocks. And @terntii’s avatar is Karsh on Hemingway (Too esoteric?) ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-this-very-common-joke-type/929644/26 "2021-01-05T16:59:45Z")
I recall one famous example in the UK on a tv panel game where one of the guests was a former senior politician who had made promises to appear and had backed out at the very last moment making if impossible to find a replacement. The reaction was to put a large tub of lard on to the guest contestant’s panel top. The line that was then used was - ‘…and our guest tonight was going to be a greasy disgusting lump of fat, instead he was replaced by the real thing’ One of the regular team hosts added that he thought that was unfair on the tub of lard ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-this-very-common-joke-type/929644/27 "2021-01-05T19:24:54Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > (Too esoteric?) Who too esoteric? Hemingway, **terntii** or you? /s ---
**Author:** ![Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Springtime_for_Spacers)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-this-very-common-joke-type/929644/28 "2021-01-06T03:18:14Z")
> [@casdave](#): > > The reaction was to put a large tub of lard on to the guest contestant’s panel top. > > The line that was then used was - > > ‘…and our guest tonight was going to be a greasy disgusting lump of fat, instead he was replaced by the real thing’ > > One of the regular team hosts added that he thought that was unfair on the tub of lard It was the third time he’d failed to appear and he had been warned about his putative replacement after the second. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-this-very-common-joke-type/929644/29 "2021-01-08T11:15:47Z")
For those not curious enough to Google it (unlike me), the MP in question was Roy Hattersley: [The Rt. Hon. Tub of Lard MP | Have I Got News For You Wiki | Fandom](https://hignfy.fandom.com/wiki/The_Rt._Hon._Tub_of_Lard_MP) The episode in question (from 1993) can be viewed here: [https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3azcyu](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3azcyu) Trigger warning - the opening scenes contain a joke alluding to suicide which definitely wouldn’t play today. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-this-very-common-joke-type/929644/30 "2021-01-08T12:18:26Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > > [@Eclipse\_Chaser](#): > > > > I don’t get that one at all. > > I don’t get what you don’t get, unless you don’t get that “hot” means angry. For me, yeah. “Hot” to me means either “attractive” or “lucky”. I’ve heard some phrases where “hot” means “angry,” like in “hot under the collar,” but I don’t think of it as a general term for angry. For example, if you told me the mods were hot about some poster, I would assume they liked them, not were angry at them. In this thread we’ve now had both newer slang that confused one poster, and older slang that confused another. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-this-very-common-joke-type/929644.md?page=1)