You know the one. The dumb joke you chuckled at that now just comes out unbidden at random times.

  • lonefighter@sh.itjust.works
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    14 days ago

    There’s a Winnie the Pooh episode where the characters are playing on Christopher Robin’s train set and the episode turns into a parody of a stereotypical Western with a train robbery and a Western town with a saloon and jail and all that.

    In one scene they’re on the train and one character (I think Pooh, but it might be Piglet) appears out of nowhere. Another character questions his sudden, impossible appearance on a moving train in the middle of the desert and and Pooh/Piglet responds “it’s a fantasy”

    I don’t know why that dumb joke stuck in my head, but sometimes when life gets to be too much I randomly think “it’s a fantasy” and things don’t really matter anymore or have to make sense.

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    13 days ago

    Why can you never have more that one egg?
    Cause one egg is Un œuf (enough)

    My favourite bilingual joke. It’s so silly, it’s so fantastic

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    14 days ago

    “Supplise!”

    Its from this dumb racist joke I heard as a kid:

    An Italian, a Scotsman, and a Chinese guy are hired at a construction site.

    The foreman points out a huge pile of sand and says to the Italian, “You’re in charge of sweeping.”

    To the Scotsman he says, “You’re in charge of shovelling.”

    And to the Chinese man he says, “You’re in charge of supplies.”

    So the foreman goes away for a couple of hours and when he returns, the pile of sand is untouched. He asks the Italian, “Why didn’t you sweep any of it?”

    He replies “I no hava no broom, you saida to the Chinese guy that he wasa ina charge of supplies, but he hasa disappeared and I no coulda finda him nowhere.”

    The foreman turns to the Scotsman and says, “And you, I thought I told you to shovel this pile.”

    He replied, “Aye, ye did lad, bit ah couldnae git masel’ a shuvl! Ye left thon wee Chinese mannie in chairge of supplies, bit ah couldnae fin’ him onywhar.”

    The foreman is really pissed off now and storms off towards the pile of sand to look for the Chinese guy. As he approaches the mound, the Chinese guy leaps out from behind the sand and yells…

    “SUPPLISE!”

    30 years later my partner and mother of my 2 children is Asian. Despite her best efforts her English is not great. We are a bilingual household, and this type of silly mis-spoken word thing comes up a lot.

    Every time I read the word “supplies”, like yesterday my printer alerted me that I need to order supplies, I have a little chuckle imagining an Asian guy jumping out and surprising me.

    Its lame. Its based on a racist stereotype. I dont make fun of people with language difficulties. But I will always find this joke worth a chuckle.

    • moakley@lemmy.world
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      13 days ago

      A far simpler version that my kids enjoy:

      “What does the janitor say when he jumps out of the closet?”