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    How would you explain a joke? (Uh oh! better run)

    #1029207
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    What would be the point?

    #1029208
    HaLeiVi
    Participant

    By killing it.

    #1029209

    No one?!?

    OK, I’ll go with mesiras nefesh.

    Because explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog.

    #1029210
    WIY
    Member

    We have a drunk frog on our hands.

    #1029211
    HaLeiVi
    Participant

    Oh. Hilarious! I didn’t know it’s that famous.

    #1029212
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    I’m lost.

    #1029213
    LevAryeh
    Member

    The original quote, from E. B. White: “Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.”

    #1029214
    mobico
    Participant

    So, to recap – one explains a joke by croaking?

    #1029215
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    Thank you LAB. Now I’m ROTFL. Did I just disprove Messrs. White and Froggie?

    (I’m still wondering how a “how” question got answered by a “because”.

    #1029216
    streekgeek
    Participant

    Please don’t explain jokes here. All violators will be toad.

    #1029217
    TheGoq
    Participant

    LOL streek!

    #1029218
    live right
    Member

    ugh im turning green…..

    #1029219
    TheGoq
    Participant

    Stop making fun of this thread! it is not wartless and neither is little froggie!!

    #1029220

    Actually he is quoted by saying “Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the …” (can’t get myself to write out such gory, morbid thoughts) “…in the process.”

    Good to know some here are actually on the ball.

    #1029221
    LevAryeh
    Member

    I’ve heard both versions. The one I posted is the way it was written by him in Some Remarks on Humor, in the introduction.

    #1029222
    oomis
    Participant

    If you need to explain it, it probably was not all that funny.

    #1029223

    Mi ki’lil froggie!

    lol. You’re talented, you know that?

    #1029224
    ronrsr
    Member

    Frogs say, “Time’s fun when you’re having flies.”

    #1029225
    streekgeek
    Participant

    This whole thread can be summed up in one word:

    Toad-che`

    LF – this definitely goes up there on your list of Top10 🙂

    #1029226

    Sorry, I don’t “catch”. (I’m slow today)

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    #1029228
    SayIDidIt™
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    Ha ha Froggie! Thanks for keeping the CR going!

    SiDi™

    #1029229

    you cant ask a rashi on a joke

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