# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Roboto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@Roboto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roboto)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/41 "2007-09-20T16:53:38Z")
Well, it’s just like my dad used to say . . . you can tune a piano, but you can’t tuna fish. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dead\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Badger)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/42 "2007-09-20T17:09:33Z")
[QUOTE=DrFidelius] What’s brown and sticky? A stick [/QUOTE] What’s brown and runny? Carl Lewis ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/43 "2007-09-20T19:08:18Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] What’s orange and sounds like a parrot? [/QUOTE] I’m pretty sure it’s an ocarina. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/45 "2011-11-18T02:02:32Z")
I don’t know where I was in 2007, but God bless the spammer who resurrected this thread. I’ve been telling these jokes to my husband and laughing like an idiot. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2011, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/46 "2011-11-18T05:28:56Z")
Just today, I got three Popsicle Sticks in a row with the same joke: ```auto What do you call a robot with no job? [SPOILER]A unique but less-than-functional aggregation of metal parts.[/SPOILER] ``` What do you call a robot with no job? A pile of junk. ```auto What do you call a robot with no job? [SPOILER]William.[/SPOILER] ``` ---
**Author:** ![Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/47 "2011-11-18T06:01:24Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > I think it’s a typo. > > [You’re not the only one who’s noticed, either.](http://amer...icangirl.motime.com/post/467657) Your link was all weird and sketchy… (I broke it in my quote) ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/48 "2011-11-18T06:03:42Z")
Probably because it’s over 4 years old. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/49 "2011-11-18T07:04:32Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > * * * > > What do you call a robot with no job? > > ## A stick. I know this is an old thread but damnit that’s funny. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/50 "2011-11-18T16:42:33Z")
What’s brown and sticky? Feces. What’s greyish-white and sticky? _BRRRRRRAAAAAIIIIIIINNNNNNNNSSSSS!_ ---
**Author:** ![Cryptic\_C62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Cryptic\_C62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cryptic_C62)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/51 "2011-11-18T18:12:56Z")
What do you call a robot with no job? Windows Vista. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Controvert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/52 "2011-11-18T19:50:54Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > This is why there are never any comic book characters named “CLINT”. Google “Clint the Hamster Triumphant” ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/53 "2011-11-19T06:02:59Z")
> [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](#): > > Your link was all weird and sketchy… (I broke it in my quote) Yeah, sorry, I no longer even remember what that link said. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/54 "2011-11-19T12:19:01Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > 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. Lucas didn’t coin the word. It was in use long before Star Wars. Here’s the earliest cite given in OED, from _Worlds of If_ science fiction magazine: > [@](#): > > 1952 If July 76/2 They’re stopping robots in the streets—household Robs, commercial Droids, all of them. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/55 "2011-11-19T15:06:10Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > This is why there are never any comic book characters named “CLINT”. Hawkeye from Marvel comics is Clint Barton ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/56 "2011-11-19T15:20:34Z")
> [@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. ::snerk:: Still, even [that](https://www.google.com/search?q=COLUMBIA+SC+coffee&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a) is a lot of coffee. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/57 "2011-11-19T16:33:17Z")
I read the op, didn’t notice the date, and thought “of course they are the same, they’re not made by hand!”. Then I scrolled down and saw myself make that same comment four years ago. Whoa. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/58 "2011-11-19T18:30:38Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > I read the op, didn’t notice the date, and thought “of course they are the same, they’re not made by hand!”. Then I scrolled down and saw myself make that same comment four years ago. Whoa. Wow…that had to have been freaky. The closest I ever came to that was a thread that I forgot I wrote in and saw my own comment and couldn’t for the life of me remember where I had heard it before (I rarely look at the username first) then I realized it was me. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/59 "2011-11-21T09:29:27Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > I read the op, didn’t notice the date, and thought “of course they are the same, they’re not made by hand!”. Then I scrolled down and saw myself make that same comment four years ago. Whoa. I’ve several times read a post, thought either “That sounds like something I would say,” or “I wish I’d said that,” only to look over at the attribution to find out that I did. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/60 "2011-11-21T09:37:47Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > I read the op, didn’t notice the date, and thought “of course they are the same, they’re not made by hand!”. Then I scrolled down and saw myself make that same comment four years ago. Whoa. Whereas I read the OP, didn’t notice the date, and thought “clearly **Indistinguishable** ’s answer is the correct explanation”. Then I scrolled down and saw myself make _that_ same comment too. At least we’re consistent! What do you call a robot with no job?A nojobot.What do you call a sexbot with no job?A noblowjobot. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664/61 "2011-11-21T11:49:50Z")
What do you call a fly with no wings? A walk. What do you call a fly with no wings and no legs? A raisin. What do you call a robot with no job? A lazy good-for-nothing parasite stealing from honest hard-working “real” Americans, who needs to have his taxes raised in order to get some “tin in the game”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-popsicle-stick-joke-makes-no-sense-to-me/419664.md?page=2)