to ask if anyone can explain this joke please?

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Q. What sort of cough medicine does Dracula take?
A. Con medicine

Just that. It was in one of the crackers at dinner today. One expects the novelties to be a bit rubbish but it is nice to have a titter over the jokes. However we can none of us understand why this is meant to be funny. Does this mean anything to anyone?

Time warp
It's featured on Sunday Brunch this morning. someone took a photo of the cracker joke and sent it in. No-one understood it until someone else rang in and said, as above. It's a misprint - it should be coffin medicine.
So funny

Ha ha coffin!

Maybe it's a reference to Klor Con, a medicine that needs to be sucked rather than swallowed. Sort of makes sense. Although it's used to treat low potassium rather than sore throats. Maybe it's a surrealist joke.

I prefer this explanation.

Just like Christmas, this thread appears earlier every year.

yep - just had this out of a cracker.
the legend continues.

Guess why I am here 😂 many blank faces round the dinner table!

We had that one in our crackers just now, blank faces all around!
Shame on Sainsburys!

Same here haha!

HAs no one written back to the cracker manufacturers yet to say "WTF? IS this meant to be coffin or is it just the worst "joke" ever?"

You'd think by now someone would have complained.

Or maybe it's like that awful Canada clock bus (or whatever it was) picture clue that no one could get, and people eventually decided it was a pisstake and didn't actually have an answer?

We had that joke last Christmas, and reached the 'coffin' conclusion!

I wonder if the joke was originally typeset in a font that had an ffi ligature. (In case you don't know, a ligature is a special character that looks like several letters joined together. They're used to prevent ugly clashes between the crossbar of the f and the dot of the i in this case.)

If someone decided to change the typeface to one without the ligature it would just disappear, changing coffin into con.

Never mind that though..

What lies at the bottom of the ocean and shakes?

A nervous wreck! LOL

Another year and I’m still bemused as I see my reply and realise it was now 2 years ago 😂😂 this thread is my mn xmas tradition 😂😂😂

It's not the cough that carries you off
It's the coffin they carry you off in

I shall show this thread to 9 year old DS, who was very disgruntled to get this very same ‘joke’ in his cracker today whilst the rest of us all got plausibly funny cracker jokes. You’d think that two years on they’d have sorted out the bloody typo.....

How is it possible that the same type persists three Christmases running?!

Typo*

( What an ironic typo!)

How is it possible that the same typo persists three Christmases running?!

Because a vampire (joke) never dies...

We got this misprint this year, and I was hoping even before I opened the thread that it would be about this joke. I guessed "coffin", although it still makes a poor joke as "cough" is mentioned in the question, so not much of a twist.

We had that joke and I was a bit confused too!

I think it meant to say 'Over the count(er) medicine'

I guess we'll all be back here next year ...

Interesting explanation, singlewhitemale , nice one!

Zombie crackers reanimating!

Not had that one, but did get:

Q: What do you call a sheep with no legs?
A: A goat

This confused us for a long, long time. Eventually we came to the conclusion it was meant to say coat.

I also have a trivial pursuit game somewhere that insisted Hawaii was the answer to the question "name a famous Parisian landmark made of so many tonnes of metal" or something along those lines. My friend wouldn't let me have the piece of pie for that "because it's not what it says on the card" #stillbitter

What do you call a fish with no eyes?

A fsh

What do you call a deer with no eyes?

No-eye deer

Is this thread a Christmas tradition now? Three years in a row! See you all next year I suppose.