No. In yours, seven eats nine and is then scared of six, which doesn't make sense.
In the picture, seven eats six, which causes five to fear seven.
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What is a joke you've heard a million times, but never understood why it's funny?
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No. In yours, seven eats nine and is then scared of six, which doesn't make sense.
In the picture, seven eats six, which causes five to fear seven.
9, 7, 8 are not sequential. 6, 7, 8 are, preserving the counting pun.
It's a pun that doesn't work without the number sequence. Your version is just a rearrangement of the original joke into roughly Yoda sentence structure; the earlier version uses a different digit sequence that Yoda could actually use if he was telling the joke.
Also, you mixed up the first part; six should be afraid of seven.
I'm running a high fever, so it took me at least an hour for this joke to finally make sense.
I was laughing at their expressions regardless.
Prototype Viktor
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They are delicious
Nappuccino
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I am 26 years old. How have I never realized this. I thought it was a dumb anti-joke a la "What did the farmer say when he lost his truck?" / "Where's my truck?"
It is a dumb anti-joke. Most people just hear the joke too early in life to understand the appeal of anti-jokes and thus think it must have a punchline to be funny.
SenorArdilla
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The other side is whatever you want it to be. "Why did the Chicken Cross the Road" has been done for so long that it no longer works as an anti-joke.
The Last of Us meme was a thread started with a quote "You know, Ellie" taken directly from 4chan where that exact joke was used for months. It was definitely intentional but definitely stolen.
Beaniedude
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I stumbled across this website a few years back and I am sure you will all appreciate it
http://badkidsjokes.tumblr.com/
It's filled to the brim with jokes that I am sure that none of you will get.
http://badkidsjokes.tumblr.com/
It's filled to the brim with jokes that I am sure that none of you will get.
No soap radio
Oh God, we actually nicknamed a girl Penguin because of that joke. We told her a version with two penguins and she was adamant on knowing what the punchline was. We told her she had to pierce apart all of the words in the joke, syllabus by syllabus, and then it'd become obvious. Cue recess, no one sees her outside. My bud goes pick up his lunch money at the classroom, and there she is, Penguin, alone, writing in her notebook as she whispers "ra-dio, ra-dio" to herself.
MomoPufflet
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Thanks for explaining this. It always confused me how he doesn't actually play Stairway yet the guitar store guy instantly recognizes it. It ruins the joke if you know the song.
Here's a good one.
Me: "Hey, I've got a good knock knock joke."
Them: "OK"
Me: "Alright, you start."
Them: "Knock knock"
Me: "Who's there?"
Them: ...
You get to trick someone into realizing they started a knock knock joke of their own without being ready to tell the full thing.
disastermouse
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I....wow...I feel like the character in Guardians of the Galaxy who doesn't understand metaphor.
CMojicaAce
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I recently figured out that the saying is "Be there or be square" because you're not a-round.
liliththepale
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No. In American slang, a square is a boring person. It comes from jazz musicians in the 1920's, who valued unique time signatures for their music. When a conductor wanted the time signature to be 4/4, or common time, he would draw a square in the air with his hands. Thus square was associated with boring.
If you're not "there", a presumably exciting place, then you're obviously boring.
DrDamn
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What? No. It's an anti-joke. The reason it's funny is because there is no punchline. Why did the chicken cross the road? Well, he wants to get to the other side of the road. The listener is supposed to expect some sort of silly answer, but there isn't.
Don't believe me? Here's the Wikipedia article on the joke.
……forgetit
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I've heard the name, but I've never seen it and I can't think of a single time it's come up. Not exactly exactly forgotten, but far from an icon of pop culture. This is actually my first time hearing a home from the movie.
Just cuz you don't have the knowledge doesn't mean it's not a pop culture icon. I was born after the movie and same with my friends and we have all seen it
John Kowalski
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Hold on ... if the chicken is committing suicide he ain't going to heaven!
But she is! Chicken Jesus > human Jesus.
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