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What is the protocol for golfers when a funeral procession is passing by? Balancing love for the sport with respect for the dead.
What's the difference between a well-dressed person on a bicycle and a poorly dressed person on a unicycle?
What's So Funny?
The difference between these two cycles is that a bicycle has two wheels (and tires), while a unicycle has one wheel (and tire). Another word for clothing is "attire."
Paraprosdokians are a special type of humor. Here are several examples that will tickle your funny bone!
An Englishman asks his server a question in the restaurant.
What's So Funny?
In British English, these two sentences are pronounced the same:
• It's bean soup. [= It is bean soup.]
• It's been soup. [= It has been soup.]
Note: In American English, been is pronounced like bin.
It's a problem if your dog is always begging for food when you sit down to eat a meal. How can you cure that? This video offers a clever solution!
What's So Funny?
The joke is that the person's home cooking is so bad that it will cure the dog of begging for food at the table because the food is so undesirable.
A woman is sitting on a bench, reading her newspaper. She notices two city employees busily at work in the park.
What's So Funny?
A common stereotype is that government workers mindlessly follow the rules and procedures of their jobs, without allowing for changes, such as the case of an absent worker (whose job is actually really important).
The boss is upset with an employee returning to work late from lunch. The excuse: dining outside!
What's So Funny?
The foolish employees were eating soup outside, but the rain kept filling up their bowls, so they just kept eating soup and eating soup until the rain stopped.
A woman bicycles across the border daily with a full pack. The guard thinks she must be smuggling something.
This bit of American humor involves a dog, a video player, and a play on words.
What's So Funny?
The humor here relies on the same pronunciation for the words "pause" (which means to stop or interrupt the video) and "paws" (which are the names of a dog's feet).
Can you answer this riddle about a special kind of dog?
What part of a fish weighs the most?
A mother sends her young boy off to school.
Q: What did the mother buffalo say to her boy as she sent him off to school?
A: Bye, son!
What's So Funny?
The answer, "Bye, son" sound just like the name for the American buffalo, "bison"!
Alan asks why hockey players don't have any frosting on their birthday cakes. Can you guess why?
What's So Funny?
There is a double meaning here. Another name for the frosting on top of a cake is icing. In ice hockey, there is a penalty for shooting the puck the entire length of the ice rink; that illegal action is also called icing.
When is the best time to go to the dentist?
What's So Funny?
The best time to go to the dentist is 2:30, which sounds just like tooth-hurty.
Alan shares a well-known riddle about skunks.
Q: How do you keep a skunk from smelling?
A. Hold its nose.
What's So Funny?
There is a double meaning here. The skunk has a strong odor, so we say it smells (bad). The other meaning is what the skunk does with his nose: it smells (things in the world around it).
What happens when a one-hump camel and a two-hump camel have a little baby without humps? What do they name it?
What's So Funny?
This baby camel is free of humps.
This week's humor segment involves a deer and a riddle.
Q: What do you call a deer with no eyes?
A. No idear.
What's So Funny?
The answer, No idea( r ) sounds like no-eye deer.
Two cannibals are eating a clown for dinner.
What's So Funny?
In English, when we think something tastes strange or not quite normal, we say it tastes funny. In this joke, the word "funny" has a second meaning because clowns are funny and make us laugh!
Feel Like You Belong is a sometimes serious, sometimes funny, always “touch-your-heart” real conversation about fitting into the American culture. It introduces guests who have made the immigrant journey to the United States. The stories–of both struggle and success–will help newcomers feel more confident in sharing their opinions and expertise, more likely to want to stay in the U.S., be more productive in their jobs, and fully invest in their communities.