# This popsicle stick joke makes no sense to me **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 18, 2007, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664 "2007-09-18T21:50:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/21 "2007-09-19T07:15:03Z")
[QUOTE=Morbo] What did the layer name his daughter? Sue.) This one I don’t understand at all:QUOTE] I can see how that would be annoying 😛 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/22 "2007-09-19T16:51:18Z")
[QUOTE=Morbo] And if it’s a typo it’s being printed on tons of popsicle sticks. Where is the quality control? ::weeps:: [/QUOTE] A co-worker stopped by with a magnet she had bought: “All the coffee in Columbia won’t keep me awake today” I cried a little for the who-knows-how-many-of-these are out there. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/23 "2007-09-19T17:06:27Z")
* * * What do you call a robot with no job? ## A stick. There. Now it’s ready. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/24 "2007-09-19T17:13:31Z")
[QUOTE=Morbo] I have now encountered this joke about three times in the box, so I have to rule out one-off misprint. [/QUOTE] Er…of course the same typo would be on all of them. You don’t think they’re doing those suckers by hand, do you? ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/25 "2007-09-19T18:21:36Z")
[QUOTE=outlierrn] [QUOTE=Morbo] What did the layer name his daughter? Sue.) This one I don’t understand at all: [/QUOTE] I can see how that would be annoying 😛 [/QUOTE] layer = lawyer 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/26 "2007-09-19T18:22:42Z")
[QUOTE=JSexton] Er…of course the same typo would be on all of them. You don’t think they’re doing those suckers by hand, do you? [/QUOTE] Boy we used to. Popcicles cost $85 bucks each back then too… ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/27 "2007-09-19T19:53:06Z")
## [QUOTE=lieu] What do you call a robot with no job? ## A stick. [/QUOTE] How about a robot who cuts hay for a living to support his son, but has temporarily shut down? A pop-sickle stick. ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/28 "2007-09-19T19:59:56Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] How about a robot who cuts hay for a living to support his son, but has temporarily shut down? A pop-sickle stick. [/QUOTE] And your joke about him, which is a pop-sickle schtick. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/29 "2007-09-19T20:25:30Z")
Are they even allowed to print that joke? I seem to recall that Lucas (or his company) owns some sort of rights on the word “droid”, coined for the Star Wars movies. I’d think that a commercial use like this would fall under some sort of trademark infringement. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/30 "2007-09-19T20:30:43Z")
[QUOTE=DrFidelius] What’s brown and sticky? A stick [/QUOTE] Oh yeah? What’s a foot long and slippery? A slipper ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/31 "2007-09-19T20:41:02Z")
[QUOTE=JSexton] Er…of course the same typo would be on all of them. You don’t think they’re doing those suckers by hand, do you? [/QUOTE] No, but I wanted to cut off the questions like “is ‘un’ there but just really faint” or “is it crooked” or some such. Still, there’s some guy on the production line that should be reading these and checking for accuracy and making the printing machine re-tack or something. Right? If you were a popsicle exec you wouldn’t want “fuck” instead of “luck” showing up on thousands of popsicle sticks, would you? These weighty issues keep me up at night. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/32 "2007-09-19T21:21:49Z")
[QUOTE=iftheresaway] Had I not just finished my drink, I would have sprayed it across the computer screen there. Well done. My friends are going to hate you for that as I tell it to ALL OF THEM, EVERY DAY for the rest of my life. Or until I see something shiny and forget. [/QUOTE] If you haven’t heard that one, then you’re bound not to have heard its classmate: What’s orange and sounds like a parrot? A carrot. Or: What do you call a sheep with no legs? A cloud. As for the popsicle “joke”, I vote for **Indistinguishable** ’s explanation. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/33 "2007-09-19T21:46:37Z")
[QUOTE=Morbo] If you were a popsicle exec you wouldn’t want “fuck” instead of “luck” showing up on thousands of popsicle sticks, would you? These weighty issues keep me up at night. [/QUOTE] This is why there are never any comic book characters named “CLINT”. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/34 "2007-09-19T22:07:48Z")
I vote for Terminus Est’s explanation. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/35 "2007-09-19T22:20:31Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] A co-worker stopped by with a magnet she had bought: “All the coffee in Columbia won’t keep me awake today” I cried a little for the who-knows-how-many-of-these are out there. [/QUOTE] I guess I need some of that coffee. What’s wrong with that? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/36 "2007-09-19T22:27:06Z")
[QUOTE=cher3] I guess I need some of that coffee. What’s wrong with that? [/QUOTE] There is no coffee grown in Columbia (DC) or British Columbia (Canada). It’s grown in Colombia, the country, in South America. ---
**Author:** ![iftheresaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecae2f/32.png) [@iftheresaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iftheresaway)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/37 "2007-09-20T00:48:48Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] If you haven’t heard that one, then you’re bound not to have heard its classmate: What’s orange and sounds like a parrot? A carrot. Or: What do you call a sheep with no legs? A cloud. As for the popsicle “joke”, I vote for **Indistinguishable** ’s explanation. [/QUOTE] In high school, I had a couple of favorites that I used to write on little slips of paper and hand out to people (not my friends, because they swore they’d stop talking to me if I didn’t quit telling them lame jokes). What’s Mary short for? She’s got not legs! Two goldfish are in a tank. One of them says to the other… “Do you know how to drive this thing?” ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/38 "2007-09-20T07:16:50Z")
[QUOTE=iftheresaway] Two goldfish are in a tank. One of them says to the other… “Do you know how to drive this thing?” [/QUOTE] HAH! Okay, Michaela’s getting that one with her breakfast tomorrow morning. ---
**Author:** ![Smith8762](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Smith8762](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smith8762)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/39 "2007-09-20T12:14:39Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] What’s orange and sounds like a parrot? A carrot. [/QUOTE] Ow…I just shot coffee out of my nose while reading that one. **What do you call a sleepwalking nun?** A roamin’ catholic. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/40 "2007-09-20T14:48:31Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] There is no coffee grown in Columbia (DC) or British Columbia (Canada). It’s grown in Colombia, the country, in South America. [/QUOTE] I thought he was referring to the university. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664.md?page=3)