Joke of the Day

I don't get it! The granddad says "You can just pretend you made the shot" and she takes him home to bed??? By that logic I can say I scored 18 on an 18-hole course, or a 300 in bowling. (I'd actually score more like 300 on the golf and zero on the bowling.) Is there something about golf I'm missing here???

 

Yes.

 

And what is it?

 

So every time someone claims to have made par, they might not have put the ball in the hole at all; they just convinced the witnesses to "agree" to it by offering adequate compensation in sex, money, or other favors. I gather that a lot of high-powered business is conducted on the golf course. "Okay, Joe. You 'agree' that I shot a 54 on this course, and the contract is yours." I guess that puts golf scores in the same category as fishing stories. Did I ever tell you about the time I caught a fish that was THIIIIIIIS big? We didn't take a picture, but I can prove it by showing you the fork I ate some of it with.

Does that go for bowling also? If the other players "agree" that someone made a strike they don't have to actually roll the ball? I know some women that could make 300 regularly if they chose to, by that rule.

 

The joke is funny not because it represents "reality" but because it's absurd. It's not supposed to portray reason or rational expectations, else it wouldn't be a joke. So when the first two males follow expectation, we're being set up. Grampa gets right to the heart of the matter against expectation and that's the first chuckle. She goes for it and that's the capper. That it's NOT something likely to actually happen IS the essential element of its humor.

 

Hmmm. Okay. I still don't think it's funny, though. The following seems equivalent:

A man is walking down the street and a beautiful woman comes up to him and says "I'll go to bed with you if you'll give me a million dollars." So he writes "$1,000,000" on a scrap of paper and gives it to her and she says, "Your place or mine?"

Has all the same elements as the golf joke: Beautiful woman, offer of sex in return for something she wants, unexpected and pointless response, unexpected acceptance by the woman.

 

What about the rest of the joke?

The expected part is that most women will probably say yes to the million bucks, knowing it's a joke. Next, the guy asks "How about $100,000?" Maybe yes, maybe no. Then he asks "How about 10,000?" Maybe yes, probably no - depnds on a lot of things. Eventually he gets to $50 or some equally insulting amount, at which point the woman indignantly asks "What kind of girl do you think I am?!" The man replies "Oh, we've already established that, we're just trying to negotiate a price."

 

These joke threads work best if they are just a collection of jokes.
No discussion if you do not get the joke.
No discussion if you do not think it is funny.

Laugh or don't laugh.

Carry on...

P.S. Every golfer got the joke right away!

 

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Of course, they'll have to get in line behind the IRS ...

 

George Bernard Shaw apparently pulled that on a society lady, for real. The punch line, IIRC, was "We've already established what kind of a woman you are. Now we're just haggling over the price."

You've been around here long enough to know that suggestions of that sort are futile.

 

+1 and +1.

Tom

 

Now THAT is funny!:rockon:

 

I didn't get it?

Tom

 

If you don't 'get it' the first time, no amount of discussion will make it as funny as if you had.

The assumption that a joke thread will never contain a discussion of the jokes therein is laughable.