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Original poster

to ask if anyone can explain this joke please?

94 replies

5Foot5 · 25/12/2015 20:54

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?

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ScreamingBadSanta · 25/12/2018 17:02

Alessandro I think the idea is that the bin liner would serve as an elephant-sized condom .

EndoplasmicReticulum · 25/12/2018 17:18

I had this joke too! (yes I realise it's a zombie thread about Dracula).

Means that the makers of the crackers have been printing the same shit joke for 3 years (at least).

ScreamingValalalalahLalalalah · 26/12/2019 11:37

It's just occurred to me that no one posted on this thread yesterday. Does this mean the cracker manufacturers have finally run out of misprinted 'con medicine' riddles?

koshkat · 26/12/2019 11:38

Typo. It's 'coff'.

ScreamingValalalalahLalalalah · 26/12/2019 11:41

Sure is, koshkat .

slashlover · 26/12/2019 11:53

Maybe it means that people thought that bumping a year old thread without adding something interesting would be annoying?

KareyHunt · 26/12/2019 11:56

Zombie question thread: why do you find it annoying? Does it make any difference to you whether the crap joke was in a 2015 cracker or a 2019 one.

ScreamingValalalalahLalalalah · 26/12/2019 11:58

Merry Christmas, slashlover .

AChickenCalledDaal · 29/12/2019 14:12

Still alive and kicking in Oxfordshire!

to ask if anyone can explain this joke please?

NiffleTime · 29/12/2019 14:49

Yup, we had this one this year too!

StrawberrySquash · 29/12/2019 16:00

twitter.com/DrClaireH/status/1077613621763559424?s=19 has a fuller explanation. TL; DR it's a ligature issue.

sebashocked · 29/12/2019 19:19

It's alive and well in Stockport too

TheSydenhamSet · 03/01/2020 21:56

I googled this joke today as i couldn’t make head nor tail of it and left me feeling very puzzled!
In my Christmas cracker London 2019

explaner · 24/03/2021 20:49

It's down to what's called the ffi glyph. The missing "ffi" letters from coffin in the joke are sometimes represented as a single character which some text readers cannot recognise so they ignore it when printing (as in whatever software was used to print the cracker joke). Make sense?

Hadjab · 24/03/2021 21:03

Here’s a joke I’ve been struggling with:

Q. Why did the mumsnetter resurrect a six year old thread?

A. 🤷🏼‍♀️

FelicityMingington · 24/03/2021 21:38

Should be "coffin medicine" - not actually funny though.

Lpid2014 · 24/03/2021 22:14

Is it Christmas already? 🤣

Frickssake · 24/03/2021 22:14

Zombie thread

HeechulOppa · 01/04/2021 21:46

Oh goodie I’ve been looking forward to Christmas!

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