Collection of Lame Jokes

[WWGD]

 

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[fresh_42]

And when you clean your vacuum cleaner then you are a vacuum cleaner.

 

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[fresh_42]

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Its standard version fits better: Polish instead of Russian.

The Slavic language Polish uses the Latin alphabet which leads to constructions that look weird for speakers of a Roman or Germanic language. The Cyrillic alphabet is more suitable and can avoid such constructions.

 

[WWGD]

But this one has the additional joke of the guy who doesn't understand the joke. A sort of a metajoke, at the bottom .

 

[martinbn]

But this one has the additional joke of the guy who doesn't understand the joke. A sort of a metajoke, at the bottom .

But his name is clearly Polish.

 

[martinbn]

The Cyrillic alphabet is more suitable and can avoid such constructions.

No, it will only shift it from those that use the latin alphabet to those that use the Cyrillic.

 

[martinbn]

No, it will only shift it from those that use the latin alphabet to those that use the Cyrillic.

@fresh_42 Why are you skeptical! Try to write that name in Cyrillic.

 

[fresh_42]

@fresh_42 Why are you skeptical! Try to write that name in Cyrillic.

I am skeptical about your reduction to a mere shift. Russian has a couple of sh-sounds and each one has its own Cyrillic letter. Writing these letters with the Latin alphabet requires constructions with "c", "z", "t", "ch", "sh" and combinations of them. This is way more than a "shift". You can find similar constructions in Hungarian where "s", "cs", "sz" all mean something different.

 

[Bandersnatch]

Eh. What's the difference. Russian rendered in Latin alphabet looks just as weird, if not more so, and the joke works the same.

But his name is clearly Polish.

That I'd be sceptical of.

 

[martinbn]

I am skeptical about your reduction to a mere shift. Russian has a couple of sh-sounds and each one has its own Cyrillic letter. Writing these letters with the Latin alphabet requires constructions with "c", "z", "t", "ch", "sh" and combinations of them. This is way more than a "shift". You can find similar constructions in Hungarian where "s", "cs", "sz" all mean something different.

Well, I am Bulgarian and I have no idea how to write that (or most) Polish name in Cyrillic. To me it will be equally aukward and strange. The joke would accually work well in my language too.

 

[martinbn]

That I'd be sceptical of.

I didn't mean that it is an actual name. I mean that it is made to look Polish, not Russian. The joke works better with Polish (at least for some, for most it would be the same).

 

[WWGD]

Leave it to PFers to dissect a joke to oblivion.

 

[martinbn]

Leave it to PFers to dissect a joke to oblivion.

 

[Bandersnatch]

I didn't mean that it is an actual name. I mean that it is made to look Polish, not Russian. The joke works better with Polish (at least for some, for most it would be the same).

I understand. I just disagree that it looks Polish. Speaking as a Pole, I'd peg the 'first name' as maybe Czech, and the 'surname' as either Russian or Ukrainian. These are of course completely garbled bundles of meaningless letters, but certain clusters are characteristic of a language. Which is what the joke hinges on. E.g. there's plenty surnames here ending with the stereotypical '-ski' but you won't find one where the /s/ is voiced to make a z as rendered above. Similarly, ending '-ij' is something common beyond our Eastern border but rare here. One or two other clusters raise the eyebrow like that.
#overanalysed_jokes

 

[Borg]

Nine jokes from ChatGPT:
Given the joke below, create nine jokes with similar oddities:
Why do we park in a driveway but drive on a parkway?

1. if a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
2. If money doesn't grow on trees, then why do banks have branches?
3. If people from Poland are called "Poles," then why aren't people from Holland called "Holes"?
4. If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2?
5. If a book about failure doesn't sell, is it a success?
6. If a jogger runs at the speed of sound, can he still hear his headphones?
7. If ghosts can walk through walls, why don't they fall through the floor?
8. If there's an exception to every rule, is there an exception to that rule?
9. If a mirror is broken, is it seven years of bad luck for the mirror or for you?

 

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[DrGreg]

Is that what "90° out of phase" means?

 

[Ibix]

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It appears to be a circuit breaker tester.

 

[Arjan82]

It appears to be a circuit breaker tester.

Well, the circuit is broken alright...

 

[WWGD]

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Das translater-geheit?

 

[fresh_42]

Das translater-geheit?

I didn't know how to translate the spirit and "Sauber!" The closest would be:

"Yep! He got it!"
I thought the circuit speaks for itself.

The fb feed calls itself "botch in construction" and has examples like

 

[topsquark]

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Is it wrong of me to have this insane desire to lick it?

-Dan

 

[berkeman]

Is it wrong of me to have this insane desire to lick it?

-Dan

That's a trick question. Before or after the circuit is energized? Before: you must like the taste of plastic. After: you must like the taste of burned plastic and molten metal. During: (nevermind...).

 

[DrGreg]

I didn't know how to translate the spirit and "Sauber!" The closest would be:

"Yep! He got it!"

Google Translate suggests: "Magic, he got it"P.S. Just in case: Some of our readers in different parts of the world might not be aware that, in Europe and some other parts of the world, brown and blue are standard colours for single-phase mains electricity power supply (live and neutral).

 

[WWGD]

Google Translate suggests: "Magic, he got it"P.S. Just in case: Some of our readers in different parts of the world might not be aware that, in Europe and some other parts of the world, brown and blue are standard colours for single-phase mains electricity power supply (live and neutral).

And if not neutral, then live and let die.

 

[JT Smith]

Is it wrong of me to have this insane desire to lick it?

If someday you are famous enough that your quotes are listed on a website I wonder if the context of this particular one will be lost.