# What's the joke to this punch line? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 15, 2004, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-joke-to-this-punch-line/245277 "2004-05-15T15:13:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-joke-to-this-punch-line/245277/21 "2004-05-15T21:56:12Z")
And you won’t get many more with these prices! ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-joke-to-this-punch-line/245277/22 "2004-05-15T22:11:09Z")
…and the asylum superintendent gives the barman a trashcan lid and says, “Sorry, I don’t have anything smaller”. “Because you’ve got Father O’Reilly’s slippers on!” And God said, “You want that bridge four lanes or six?” “How did I make the donkey cry? I _showed_ him!” “Naah, it’s not that. I just didn’t know the parrot had sold the place.” ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-joke-to-this-punch-line/245277/23 "2004-05-15T22:24:52Z")
This is really frustrating. I only know about one joke in four and no one is explaining. Just to get even - “Where’s my cookie?” ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-joke-to-this-punch-line/245277/24 "2004-05-15T22:27:17Z")
You woke me up in the middle of the night for Moo Goo Gai Pan?? ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-joke-to-this-punch-line/245277/25 "2004-05-15T22:45:23Z")
“Holy mackerel, where did all these fucking Indians come from?” ---
**Author:** ![Chairman\_Pow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Chairman\_Pow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chairman_Pow)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-joke-to-this-punch-line/245277/26 "2004-05-15T23:03:58Z")
You know, most of these sound like bad ways to end a date rather than punchlines. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-joke-to-this-punch-line/245277/27 "2004-05-15T23:04:41Z")
Somewhere Henny Youngman is feeling a great disturbance in the force, as if thousands of voices were laughing out loud and then suddenly silenced. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-joke-to-this-punch-line/245277/28 "2004-05-15T23:05:44Z")
The old lady looked at her husband and said, “Every one of them.” ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-joke-to-this-punch-line/245277/29 "2004-05-15T23:29:46Z")
‘NO! It’s just ice cream!’ _giggle_ This is fun. ^\_\_~ ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-joke-to-this-punch-line/245277/30 "2004-05-16T00:00:29Z")
[It seems odd, somehow, to see **tomndebb** in here. Always figured him for such a serious, button-down, no-nonsense kinda feller. :D] ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-joke-to-this-punch-line/245277/31 "2004-05-16T00:26:47Z")
The duck says “It started as just this little bump on my butt.” ---
**Author:** ![peculiar\_hailstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/46a35a/32.png) [@peculiar\_hailstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peculiar_hailstone)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-joke-to-this-punch-line/245277/32 "2004-05-16T00:50:31Z")
ya know, Superman, you’re an asshole when you’re drunk cuz he’s hung like this no, you’re bloody ugly a harmonica only sucks half the time ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-joke-to-this-punch-line/245277/33 "2004-05-16T00:54:11Z")
Did you just feel something? ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-joke-to-this-punch-line/245277/34 "2004-05-16T00:56:32Z")
“Oh, sure,” the wife says. “_You_ don’t have to get up in the morning!” ---
**Author:** ![nitroglycerine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@nitroglycerine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nitroglycerine)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-joke-to-this-punch-line/245277/35 "2004-05-16T02:07:41Z")
“Great”, said the old lady, “I’ll keep my eye out for you”. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-joke-to-this-punch-line/245277/36 "2004-05-16T02:31:31Z")
Well could we take a break anyway? I’m starving! What do you mean us, paleface? Sometimes the bull wins. ---
**Author:** ![bizzwire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/958977/32.png) [@bizzwire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bizzwire)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-joke-to-this-punch-line/245277/37 "2004-05-16T02:36:24Z")
So the bear wiped himself with the rabbit!!! “Why do you ask, ‘two dogs fucking?’” ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-joke-to-this-punch-line/245277/38 "2004-05-16T02:39:14Z")
Question 2 (95 points): Which tire? ---
**Author:** ![Roches](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc8723/32.png) [@Roches](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roches)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-joke-to-this-punch-line/245277/39 "2004-05-16T02:48:45Z")
[shameless attempt to increase posts count] “Plus a constant!” [/shameless attempt to increase posts count] ---
**Author:** ![biddee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@biddee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/biddee)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-joke-to-this-punch-line/245277/40 "2004-05-16T02:49:03Z")
I’m an ex tractor fan myself I’m afraid not (a frayed knot) You wanna buy a fly? But then when I have a baby, won’t it knock my teeth out? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-joke-to-this-punch-line/245277.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-joke-to-this-punch-line/245277.md?page=3)