35 comments on “THE JOKE WHAT MY DAUGHTER TOLD ME”
Yav yo!
made me laugh 🙂
First time I heard it was on South Park. I believe it had to do with a interrupting cow.
Hey, wait a minute. That’s me! 🙂
Oddly, my rabbi was the one who told me the interrupting cow variation of this. (Mooooo instead of yo.)
It took me a while, but I got it! LOL! I’ll replace it.
At least, he knows there’s a dog 😉
um. nope. don’t get it.
The difference between the interrupting cow, is that this is a dyslexic person of the jewish persuasion… so instead of interupting with Oy! It’s Yo! So it adds to the funny…
Travis — explaining what probably doesn’t need explaining.
That’s really funny. Going up on my blog immediately.
Thanks for the explanation Travis.
Well, if there was any doubt, it’s officially expunged. She’s yours.
You know it’s funny, I always think of “Oy!” being more an Ozzie thing. The first time I heard it was on those old Energizer commercials with the Australian soccer player who looked liked Blank Reg from Max Headroom.
I like it. Gwen! has a twisted sense of humor.
A few months back, when TIME magazine had a cover story headlined “Overcoming Dyslexia,” I thought they should have written it “Ovremocnig Sydlexia.”
Not sure if I should feel guilty about that or not.
Paul
Lovely!
Shonah Tovah, by the way.
With all due respect, that rates right up there with all the classic groans and moans from the old Rocky and Bullwinkle show.
Maybe someday it will become a classic, which will then just prove that Gwen was ahead of her time today.
My favorite variation (which can only be told after you’ve already done one of the others) is the ‘interrupting worm.’ Instead of making a noise, you just /stare/ intently at the person you’re telling the joke to.
Try it, it works.
I made up one back in high school that only works over the phone. “So this mime walks into a bar and he says…”
Aren’t I a riot?
…yeah, I didn’t think so either.
yeah that australian fella was more an ‘oi!’ than an ‘oy’ got them here in nz too.
Happy B-day, PAD
: )
Thats funny she doesn’t look druish.
(Space Balls)
Really its a Mel Brooks joke.
Regards:
WSJ3
not bad, its a smart variation on the Interrupting Cow joke. But its a little too smart for its own good. Jokes should make you think but when you hit a brain-twister so much and you get the punchline the reactionn isn’t really a HA-HA. Its more of an “Oh.”
here’s a personal fav. of a thinker but not TOO much of a thinker:
A skelleton walks into a bar. He goes up to the bartender and says “Gimmie a beer and mop.”
or
A Priest, A Rabbi and a Nun walk into a bar. The bartender looks up and says “Is this a joke?”
I’m a big fan of the Interrupting Cow version — it’s been funny to me for years. Kind of anomaly, really, but I try not to think about it too much.
I do have a thought about yer daughter’s version, though; why the dyslexia? I mean, it just seems excessive. Sure, it makes the response longer, giving the teller more opportunity to interrupt, but the word “interrupting” is long enough that it shouldn’t be a problem to interject before the listener finishes saying “Interrupting Jew, Who?” It reminds me of an article I read a month ago about the death of adventure gaming. The author quoted a section of the walkthrough of Gabriel Knight IV, which I will truncate:
To disguise yourself as a specific moustacheless person, you must first construct a fake moustache using cat hair and maple syrup (an unpleasant sounding disguise if ever there was one), then steal the guy’s passport and draw a moustache on it. Don’t get me wrong, I understand the theory — distract the eye with a glaring facial feature that you can duplicate, such as a moustache or a mole — but the level of insanity to which one must delve to accomplish this in an adventure game… it’s just farther than one needs to go for the end result.
One last, then I’m done: A friend of mine told me last week about a study he read on dyslexia and how it works compared to how the non-dyslexic mind works. It was pretty cool, but this was the coolest part: Suhlod ayonne hpaepn to be albe to raed tihs wtuhiot dctfiilufy, taht psoren wolud not be dxsileyc.
Apparently, the human brain can make sense of that last little bit as long as the first and last letters are in place.
This is one of my favorite somewhat-silly jokes:
What’s a metaphor?
Grazing sheep.
(I don’t really do knock-knock jokes)
What did the cosmic ray say to the quark when they collided?
Charmed, I’m sure.
the reason ‘dyslexic’ is needed is that it adds a twist to the joke that the interrupting Jew doesn’t have. The ‘Interrupting Jew” would have to interject, “Oy”, which isn’t nearly as funny as a “interrupting dyslexic Jew” interjecting “Yo”.
One could also argue that by inserting the ‘dyslexic’ one is laughing more at the dyslexia part, and not at the Jewish part…and its more ok to laugh at disabilities than it is at religions. But he/she who made that argument would probably be branded as way too pc, and unable to understand the difference between humor and insults. Which would be true, probably.
And then there’s this one, which I’m pretty sure I encountered in Pete Milligan’s Shade, the Changing Man:
Did you hear the one about the agnostic, dyslexic insomniac?
She lies awake all night wondering if there’s a dog.
Paul
Over analyzing a joke which reminds me of over analyzing a metaphor… which can be found in many a Pratchett Books.
It’s supposed to be funny.
But I guess these days the only jokes you can tell about a certain group of people on TV or any media are Amish. Because they won’t know about em.
Sigh.
Travis
Re: what Nekouken said:
It reminds me of an article I read a month ago about the death of adventure gaming. The author quoted a section of the walkthrough of Gabriel Knight IV
Weren’t there only three Gabriel Knight games?
This little gem reared its head at Geoff Johns’ site a few days ago. It seemed appropriate:
The pweor of the hmuan mnid
Aoccdrnig to rscheearch codnutced at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are tpyed, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit oedrer. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?
Happy birthday, Peter. I hope you had a great celebration. (You do have the world’s cutest nine-month-old, btw.)
Did anybody hear the one about the dyslexic devil worshipper who sold his soul to Santa?
\\Weren’t there only three Gabriel Knight games?
Posted by Loretimor\\
By jing, you’re absolutely right. My apologies.
Chris Grillo wrote:
>What did the cosmic ray say to >the quark when they collided?
>
>Charmed, I’m sure.
Being a theoretical physicist and thus understanding the joke, my only possible comment is die, infidel, die.
Has anyone heard of the interrupting starfish variation? That was my first encounter with the joke- the interruption takes the form of making a sucking noise as you suddenly stick your hand right onto the person’s face. Just don’t do it to anyone wearing glasses… could be quite uncomfortable.
dyslexic man walks into a bra.
I saw this bloke chatting up a cheetah, I thought “he’s trying to pull a fast one.
So I said to the Gym instructor “Can you teach me to do the splits?”. He said “How flexible are you?” I said “I can’t make Tuesdays”.
So I was in the Supermarket and I saw this man and woman wrapped in a barcode. I said, “Are you two an item?”.
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One says to the other: “Does this
taste funny to you?
You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said ‘Parking Fine.’ So that was nice.”
So I went to the dentist. He said “Say Aaah.” I said “Why?” He said “My dog’s died.
So I was in my car, and I was driving along, and my boss rang up, and he said ‘You’ve been promoted.’ And I swerved. And then he rang up a second time and said “You’ve been promoted again.’ And I swerved again. He rang up a third time and said ‘You’re managing director.’ And I went into a tree. And a policeman came up and said ‘What happened to you?’ And I said ‘I careered off the road.’
Two Aerials meet on a roof – fall in love – get married. The ceremony was rubbish but the Reception was Brilliant.
have a nice day 🙂
Some funny stuff above.
I have however heard most of shed’s jokes/one-liners from a British stand-up called Tim Vine. That guy is a genius with wordplay and cheesy lines.
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Yav yo!
made me laugh 🙂
First time I heard it was on South Park. I believe it had to do with a interrupting cow.
Hey, wait a minute. That’s me! 🙂
Oddly, my rabbi was the one who told me the interrupting cow variation of this. (Mooooo instead of yo.)
It took me a while, but I got it! LOL! I’ll replace it.
At least, he knows there’s a dog 😉
um. nope. don’t get it.
The difference between the interrupting cow, is that this is a dyslexic person of the jewish persuasion… so instead of interupting with Oy! It’s Yo! So it adds to the funny…
Travis — explaining what probably doesn’t need explaining.
That’s really funny. Going up on my blog immediately.
Thanks for the explanation Travis.
Well, if there was any doubt, it’s officially expunged. She’s yours.
You know it’s funny, I always think of “Oy!” being more an Ozzie thing. The first time I heard it was on those old Energizer commercials with the Australian soccer player who looked liked Blank Reg from Max Headroom.
I like it. Gwen! has a twisted sense of humor.
A few months back, when TIME magazine had a cover story headlined “Overcoming Dyslexia,” I thought they should have written it “Ovremocnig Sydlexia.”
Not sure if I should feel guilty about that or not.
Paul
Lovely!
Shonah Tovah, by the way.
With all due respect, that rates right up there with all the classic groans and moans from the old Rocky and Bullwinkle show.
Maybe someday it will become a classic, which will then just prove that Gwen was ahead of her time today.
My favorite variation (which can only be told after you’ve already done one of the others) is the ‘interrupting worm.’ Instead of making a noise, you just /stare/ intently at the person you’re telling the joke to.
Try it, it works.
I made up one back in high school that only works over the phone. “So this mime walks into a bar and he says…”
Aren’t I a riot?
…yeah, I didn’t think so either.
yeah that australian fella was more an ‘oi!’ than an ‘oy’ got them here in nz too.
Happy B-day, PAD
: )
Thats funny she doesn’t look druish.
(Space Balls)
Really its a Mel Brooks joke.
Regards:
WSJ3
not bad, its a smart variation on the Interrupting Cow joke. But its a little too smart for its own good. Jokes should make you think but when you hit a brain-twister so much and you get the punchline the reactionn isn’t really a HA-HA. Its more of an “Oh.”
here’s a personal fav. of a thinker but not TOO much of a thinker:
A skelleton walks into a bar. He goes up to the bartender and says “Gimmie a beer and mop.”
or
A Priest, A Rabbi and a Nun walk into a bar. The bartender looks up and says “Is this a joke?”
I’m a big fan of the Interrupting Cow version — it’s been funny to me for years. Kind of anomaly, really, but I try not to think about it too much.
I do have a thought about yer daughter’s version, though; why the dyslexia? I mean, it just seems excessive. Sure, it makes the response longer, giving the teller more opportunity to interrupt, but the word “interrupting” is long enough that it shouldn’t be a problem to interject before the listener finishes saying “Interrupting Jew, Who?” It reminds me of an article I read a month ago about the death of adventure gaming. The author quoted a section of the walkthrough of Gabriel Knight IV, which I will truncate:
To disguise yourself as a specific moustacheless person, you must first construct a fake moustache using cat hair and maple syrup (an unpleasant sounding disguise if ever there was one), then steal the guy’s passport and draw a moustache on it. Don’t get me wrong, I understand the theory — distract the eye with a glaring facial feature that you can duplicate, such as a moustache or a mole — but the level of insanity to which one must delve to accomplish this in an adventure game… it’s just farther than one needs to go for the end result.
One last, then I’m done: A friend of mine told me last week about a study he read on dyslexia and how it works compared to how the non-dyslexic mind works. It was pretty cool, but this was the coolest part: Suhlod ayonne hpaepn to be albe to raed tihs wtuhiot dctfiilufy, taht psoren wolud not be dxsileyc.
Apparently, the human brain can make sense of that last little bit as long as the first and last letters are in place.
This is one of my favorite somewhat-silly jokes:
What’s a metaphor?
Grazing sheep.
(I don’t really do knock-knock jokes)
What did the cosmic ray say to the quark when they collided?
Charmed, I’m sure.
the reason ‘dyslexic’ is needed is that it adds a twist to the joke that the interrupting Jew doesn’t have. The ‘Interrupting Jew” would have to interject, “Oy”, which isn’t nearly as funny as a “interrupting dyslexic Jew” interjecting “Yo”.
One could also argue that by inserting the ‘dyslexic’ one is laughing more at the dyslexia part, and not at the Jewish part…and its more ok to laugh at disabilities than it is at religions. But he/she who made that argument would probably be branded as way too pc, and unable to understand the difference between humor and insults. Which would be true, probably.
And then there’s this one, which I’m pretty sure I encountered in Pete Milligan’s Shade, the Changing Man:
Did you hear the one about the agnostic, dyslexic insomniac?
She lies awake all night wondering if there’s a dog.
Paul
Over analyzing a joke which reminds me of over analyzing a metaphor… which can be found in many a Pratchett Books.
It’s supposed to be funny.
But I guess these days the only jokes you can tell about a certain group of people on TV or any media are Amish. Because they won’t know about em.
Sigh.
Travis
Re: what Nekouken said:
It reminds me of an article I read a month ago about the death of adventure gaming. The author quoted a section of the walkthrough of Gabriel Knight IV
Weren’t there only three Gabriel Knight games?
This little gem reared its head at Geoff Johns’ site a few days ago. It seemed appropriate:
The pweor of the hmuan mnid
Aoccdrnig to rscheearch codnutced at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are tpyed, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit oedrer. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?
Happy birthday, Peter. I hope you had a great celebration. (You do have the world’s cutest nine-month-old, btw.)
Did anybody hear the one about the dyslexic devil worshipper who sold his soul to Santa?
\\Weren’t there only three Gabriel Knight games?
Posted by Loretimor\\
By jing, you’re absolutely right. My apologies.
Chris Grillo wrote:
>What did the cosmic ray say to >the quark when they collided?
>
>Charmed, I’m sure.
Being a theoretical physicist and thus understanding the joke, my only possible comment is die, infidel, die.
Has anyone heard of the interrupting starfish variation? That was my first encounter with the joke- the interruption takes the form of making a sucking noise as you suddenly stick your hand right onto the person’s face. Just don’t do it to anyone wearing glasses… could be quite uncomfortable.
dyslexic man walks into a bra.
I saw this bloke chatting up a cheetah, I thought “he’s trying to pull a fast one.
So I said to the Gym instructor “Can you teach me to do the splits?”. He said “How flexible are you?” I said “I can’t make Tuesdays”.
So I was in the Supermarket and I saw this man and woman wrapped in a barcode. I said, “Are you two an item?”.
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One says to the other: “Does this
taste funny to you?
You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said ‘Parking Fine.’ So that was nice.”
So I went to the dentist. He said “Say Aaah.” I said “Why?” He said “My dog’s died.
So I was in my car, and I was driving along, and my boss rang up, and he said ‘You’ve been promoted.’ And I swerved. And then he rang up a second time and said “You’ve been promoted again.’ And I swerved again. He rang up a third time and said ‘You’re managing director.’ And I went into a tree. And a policeman came up and said ‘What happened to you?’ And I said ‘I careered off the road.’
Two Aerials meet on a roof – fall in love – get married. The ceremony was rubbish but the Reception was Brilliant.
have a nice day 🙂
Some funny stuff above.
I have however heard most of shed’s jokes/one-liners from a British stand-up called Tim Vine. That guy is a genius with wordplay and cheesy lines.