I work in a restaurant. Many of my co-workers are relatively young, some even in high school. Our restaurant happens to be nearly adjacent to a cigar store.
Last night, I was speaking with one of my co-workers and I mentioned the store, since I was thinking about getting a cigar there. I ask him if he has ever smoked one and he says “No, how old do you have to be to buy cigars?”
I say, “18, how old are you?”
He looks a little deflated and says “17.”
“Ah,” I say, “You’re close, but no cigar.”
Yes, it really happened just like that. I roared at my own wit, but soon realized he didn’t get it - you see, this co-worker is from Mexico and had never heard the phrase before. I explained it to him, but of course the joke lost its whole spur-of-the-moment touch.
Oh the tragedy. I may never get another set-up like that again.
Well I laughed.
Reminds me of the Simpsons ep when Homer cracks a joke to himself and his brain tells him it was the smartest thing he ever said, too bad no one was around to hear it.
Thanks, I feel a little better now.
If a joke is cracked in the forest and there’s no one there to hear it, does it get a laugh?
Now I know that with the powers of the internet, it can.
A couple years ago I got a message from a patient to pass along to the doctor. The message simply read “What’s the frequency?” Can you believe no one in that whole office understand my delight at writing “Kenneth” on it? Goddammed whippersnappers, need to get off my lawn.
Ha ha yessss I remember that one. I think it was the episode with Bush Sr. and santas little helper was jogging with Bush and homer said something along the lines of him barking up the wrong bush.
Oh well…i’m sure the real quote is a lot funnier 
When I was in Grad School my research group went out to lunch together once a week. One time Mama Zappa joined us. My doctoral adviser was talking about one his trips to Europe, and asked Mama Zappa “Have you ever been to Spain?” She immediately said “No, but I kinda like the music!” Everyone under thirty at the table laughed. 
Everyone over thirty had no clue. 
I was soooo proud of her! 
Link for the lyrically impaired.
It’s Three Dog Night. They were big in the sixties. For more than twenty minutes. Now where’s my Social Security check?
Uh, yeah, sure. He was from Mexico. That’s why he didn’t laugh.
I don’t understand what you’re implying. They just don’t have that phrase in Mexico. Like I said, he hadn’t heard it before (I asked him).
Ah, never mind the above post. I see that I so fully accept the unequivocal hilarity of this comment (of course, it’s a situational joke so you had to be there, but you can imagine it) that the thought that the joke itself might not be funny wouldn’t have crossed my mind.