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11 Aug 2009, 5:43 pm

I know what a double entendre is, but I don't find this hilarious. I mean I know what one is in language, not booze. Booze is alien to me.

Even if that's a drink, it's still not super funny. Blah. See what happens when the average person tries to joke about grammar?

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11 Aug 2009, 5:44 pm

Nim wrote:

What did the fish say when he ran into the wall?

...Dam.

BRILLIANT!! ! :lol:

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11 Aug 2009, 5:44 pm

jelibean wrote:

My mate tried this 'joke' out on me and some of her NT friends. Whilst it is earth shatteringly funny to the NT's she has noticed that the AS's are not 'getting it' ME INCLUDED!! I have had it explained to me now but still don't find it funny (although I laughed just to please my mate!!)

This may be sampling bias, and may be culturally determined, so I'd
like to know, if anyone cares to respond, whether this is funny to you
or not.

"A woman walks into a bar and asks the barman for a double entendre.

So he gives her one"

Right. That's it. Any responses gratefully received.

OOOH and if it has been explained to you, that doesn't count!! :lol:

There are several drinks whose names are of the form double "x".

it is a pun more than a joke.

This really happened when I was present. A women went to the bar and ordered a screaming orgasm. This nearly sent what I was drinking through my nose. It turns out there IS a drink called a screaming orgasm.

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11 Aug 2009, 5:56 pm

ruveyn wrote:

jelibean wrote:

OOOH and if it has been explained to you, that doesn't count!! :lol:

The names of drinks are hilarious. In Turkey I had a cocktail called sex on the beach, and I sent a text to my best friend saying: "I just had sex on the beach. Don't take this literally," and he replied, "You should have seen my reaction before I remembered that's the name of a drink!" :lol:

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11 Aug 2009, 6:20 pm

A lot of drinks have names with sexual connotations like Mudslide, Slow Comfortable Screw, Orgasm etc. It's the tee hee factor some people never get tired of.

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11 Aug 2009, 6:23 pm

Did anyone explain the joke yet?

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11 Aug 2009, 6:26 pm

Aimless wrote:

A lot of drinks have names with sexual connotations like Mudslide, Slow Comfortable Screw, Orgasm etc. It's the tee hee factor some people never get tired of.

What's sexual about Mudslide? That's one of my favorite drinks.

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11 Aug 2009, 6:41 pm

I must be completely clueless. I don't know the names of the drinks mentioned in this thread, what is sexual about them (Mudslide, as serenity asked Aimless), or why any of this is funny. I do know what a double entendre is, and I do watch some British TV.

Oh well.

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11 Aug 2009, 6:45 pm

5 pages of people trying to understand this joke. Hm.

In Soviet Russia, joke gets you.

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11 Aug 2009, 6:53 pm

mechanicalgirl39 wrote:

Did anyone explain the joke yet?

From what I've gathered, "he gave her one" in the UK means "he did her". (not so much in the US, so maybe that's why a ton of people didn't get it.)
And if you don't know, a double entendre is a phrase that has a second meaning, often naughty.

...but I'm still not laughing.

I usually get and like jokes, but I don't see how this one is really so funny.;;;; Maybe people just love the idea of sex in jokes. Who knows. They could still make up a way better sex joke.

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11 Aug 2009, 6:59 pm

mudslide references something best discussed in adult forum and I don't think they are funny either, just dumb.

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11 Aug 2009, 7:03 pm

Nim wrote:

What did the fish say when he ran into the wall?

...Dam.

This I found hilarious, and I've heard it before.

The other... not so much.

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11 Aug 2009, 7:19 pm

Nope, I don't get it .....now I'll read the posts to see what I'm missing.

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11 Aug 2009, 7:33 pm

I love this thread!

I got the joke, but only because it identified itself as a double entendre. Therefor, there must be two meanings, and one must be lewd. It's a short joke, so "gave her one" or "gave it to her" must be lewd. And there must be a drink called "Double Entendre", like "Sex on the Beach", otherwise it makes no internal sense. Request + Double meaning + Lewd action = crude joke. Not even a groan.

By the way, "double entendre" has a lewd second meaning, "double entente" has two meanings that aren't lewd, so Hannibal's dinner reference was a double entente.

OK. I have a question for you. I'm wondering if anyone has heard of this. It's a school-kid prank, not a joke.

With a group of kids, some of whom know the trick, one of them tells the joke:

Two penguins are taking a shower.
One of them says pass the soap.
The other answers: What do you think I am, a radio?

The kids who know the trick laugh like crazy. Most of the kids who don't get it laugh as if they do, just to fit in. But there's usually a kid who says "I don't get it" and the other kids tease him.

There is no joke. It's just a cruel prank. Has any one heard of this or similar ones?

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11 Aug 2009, 8:06 pm

I think there is a life stage thing involved here, also, in "getting" that joke. I didn't catch onto the second cultural meaning of double-entendre OR the second slang meaning of "her gave her one / he gave it to her." I don't speak raunch, by and large. And I'm mostly NT; just a rather naive and unlearned in the ways of slang one.

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11 Aug 2009, 10:32 pm

I got it. It was mildly amusing.

CaroleTucson wrote:

Maggiedoll wrote:

I think it's kinda funny, but I'm not completely sure what the second meaning is supposed to be

The play is on the word "double" ... as in asking a bartender for a "double scotch" or whatever. She asked for a "double entendre", as though that were a kind of drink.

So in this context, the phrase "double entendre" is itself a double entendre ... does that make it a "quadruple entendre"?

^ I found this post to be funnier than the original joke.

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