Collection of Lame Jokes

[DaveC426913]

 

[Swamp Thing]

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As one does, I geeked into the "que" rabbit hole and googled up whether this is related to a similar word in Persian and Indian languages.

Yes, the Spanish word que and the Persian word ke are cognates, both descending from the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) interrogative and relative stem *kʷ-.


Spanish que (and qué)
Proto-Indo-European (PIE): The forms kʷís ("who?") and kʷíd ("what?") are the ultimate root. The stem kʷ- represented both interrogative ("who?", "what?") and relative ("that," "which") pronouns in PIE.
Latin: From PIE, these developed into the Latin pronouns quis and quid. Over time, these Latin forms evolved and merged to become the Old Spanish que.
Old Spanish: Old Spanish que inherited the functions of both the interrogative and the relative pronoun from Latin.
Modern Spanish: Today, the word maintains both functions. The accent mark distinguishes them in writing:
Qué (with an accent) is the interrogative pronoun, meaning "what?" or "which?".
Que (without an accent) is the relative pronoun or a conjunction, meaning "that," "which," or "who".

Persian ke (که)
Proto-Indo-European (PIE): Persian ke also traces back to the same PIE roots, kʷís and kʷós.
Middle Persian: The Modern Persian ke evolved from several Middle Persian subordinating words, which were used for "who, which," "that," "when," and "if." These forms ultimately derive from the PIE stem.
Modern Persian: The modern word ke (که) acts as a subordinating conjunction with multiple uses, including "that" and "which". It serves a function similar to the unaccented Spanish que and the English "that."

 

[Swamp Thing]

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Won't it also waft the alcoholic smell all around?

 

[WWGD]

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A lady called Ella Ross went to work with Elvis Tech.

 

[jtbell]

I passed this place in Wilkesboro NC today (er, yesterday).

I wonder if they call their customers “buttercup”.

 

[WWGD]

 

[WWGD]

 

[BillTre]

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Or there was a bullet hole in the glass which a fly later got stuck in.

 

[Borg]

Or there was a bullet hole in the glass which a fly later got stuck in.

Or someone put a dead fly there, took a picture and uploaded it to the internet as a meme.

 

[Ibix]

 

[berkeman]

Punctuation is important, peoples!

 

[WWGD]

 

[jtbell]

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Won't it also waft the alcoholic smell all around?

Only if the meeting’s participants have installed Zoom’s Smell-O-Vision plugin.

 

[WWGD]

Only if the meeting’s participants have installed Zoom’s Smell-O-Vision plugin.

In Odorama.

 

[WWGD]

 

[WWGD]

 

[berkeman]

 

[Bandersnatch]

Laziness might very well have been an Olympic sport all this time. It's just that it's always cancelled, because you don't qualify if you show up.

 

[Swamp Thing]

Meeting:

"And what can you contribute to our discussion?"
"Nothing."
"So why are you here?"
"I like the company of like-minded people."

I see that this post has been read by at least four "

" minded people.

 

[Swamp Thing]

Or someone put a dead fly there, took a picture and uploaded it to the internet as a meme.

Or the pane is made of sugar glass.

 

[WWGD]

Or the pane is made of sugar glass.

I could feel the pane.

 

[WWGD]

 

[WWGD]

 

[Ibix]

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I have a colleague who claims he won an award for procrastination, and he'll be going to collect it any day now.

 

[WWGD]

 

[WWGD]

 

[fresh_42]

The text says: I once was a truck.

 

[WWGD]

 

[WWGD]

 

[symbolipoint]

Using post #23069,
...., and his last name was Figaro.