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... I don't get this joke.

57 replies

honestlynotagain · 18/12/2018 09:52

Two reinder are stood in the snow
"what's wrong with comet?"
"his wife flew off to Vegas and blew 50 bucks"

Literally, I just don't get it (is supposed to be a naughty joke?!) all the people listening were in fits of laughter after reading it and all that happened to me was a piece of tumbleweed went by. I just don't get it. Can anyone explain?

OP posts:
RangeRider · 18/12/2018 10:40

Even when it's been explained it's still not particularly funny.

FrowningFlamingo · 18/12/2018 10:42

It's funnier in America I guess, we tend to use 'stag' rather than 'buck'. It wouldn't take much tweaking to anglicise it I suppose.

Serin · 18/12/2018 10:43

I get the joke but for the life of me can't understand what the shedding of antlers has to do with it!

AdamNichol · 18/12/2018 10:45

It wouldn't take much tweaking to anglicise it I suppose.

How? The whole premise of the joke is the bucks=$ / bucks=male deer contention; along with blew=lost / blew = bj. Not gonna work with Stags / £.

AdamNichol · 18/12/2018 10:47

I get the joke but for the life of me can't understand what the shedding of antlers has to do with it!

Nothing really, other than the joke poses that Comet was unhappy because HIS wife blah, when the image of antlered reindeer in the winter actually shows Comet to be female, so should be HER wife.

In the same vein, not only are Santa's reindeer female, but are also colour-blind, which means they didn't bully Rudolph for his nose colour.

LatinForTelly · 18/12/2018 10:48

My understanding is stags and hinds are Red deer and does and bucks are Roe deer.

(I came to check if this was Boswell too.)

Gth1234 · 18/12/2018 10:53

It's like Father Christmas doesn't have a very good sex life, because he only comes once a year and that's down a chimney. Also not terribly funny.

NaughtToThreeSadOnions · 18/12/2018 10:55

i was just trying to make it work i guess you could angletise it simply just replacing the buck with stag meaning, stag -groom to be, its not unconservable theres 50 stag dos their for 50 stags in vagas for deer comet to blow through but that doesn't get tp the premise of the bucks/bucks thing we dont call our currency stags. I guess she could blow 50 squids (sort of sounds like quids) why a dear would be blowing squids or they would survive out of water im not sure

GodrestyemerrySchadenfreud · 18/12/2018 10:58

Thank God for Reindeer Science Elenia!

mammmamia · 18/12/2018 10:59

I can’t believe Boswell didn’t get resolved Confused

masterandmargarita · 18/12/2018 11:04

As op hasn't returned do you think they're some kinda blow job troll?

AdamNichol · 18/12/2018 11:04

Harts and Hinds
Stags and Hinds
Stags and Does
Bucks and Does....

Boswell and Post Offices??? (I don't get that one either)

AdamNichol · 18/12/2018 11:05

some kinda blow job troll

You obviously had a different version of the 3 Billy Goats Gruff to me

sashh · 18/12/2018 11:13

They're still male without their antlers, though, right?

They may have male bodies but if they self ID as female...

FrowningFlamingo · 18/12/2018 11:14

AdamNichol stag as in stag party. Often found in Vegas so could still use dollars...
wouldn't work in America is they have batchelor parties, but would work here.
Language is a strange thing...
admit it wouldn't be especially funny, but neither is the original!

LoadOfUtterBoswellocks · 18/12/2018 11:29

You know, a joke is like a frog. If you dissect it, it dies.

As in, if you were to take a live frog, and then cut it into pieces and remove its internal organs, the likely outcome would be that the frog would then die as a direct result of its catastrophic injuries. In the same way, if you start to explain a joke, it loses a lot of its inherent humour which is largely based on misdirection, often as a play on words or, to put it another way, the curious property of a number of languages (predominantly Latinate) to contain words that are homophones or homonyms of other words in the lexicon. By over-explaining a joke, or, to use the terminology of the succinct version above, to "dissect" it with the application of linguistic analysis (as an analogy to the physical dissection of the frog mentioned above), it becomes fatally exposed and is therefore rendered unfunny. This could be defined as the joke "dying".

TeamEponine · 18/12/2018 11:29

Ahhh!!!!

Now I get it Grin

When I saw the thread title I was really hoping it was this cartoon. I was dreading asking DH to explain it to me...

mikado1 · 18/12/2018 12:56

Thanks AdamNichol

NaughtToThreeSadOnions · 18/12/2018 14:58

frowning that woukdnt woek though for it to work make deers and currency have to be the same word. Thats the princiable of the joke.

Blow 50 bucks means to waste 50 dollors
Blow 50 bucks mesns to deliver oral sex to 50 male deer. So coment either wasted 50 dollors or gave 50 deer bjs

Yes in yoyr version she could give 50 stags a bj but theres no pun on the currejcy so the joke doesnt work

Original poster
honestlynotagain · 18/12/2018 19:14

Thanks everyone!
I actually had an epiphany on the drive home from work today and "got" the joke.
I didn't split my sides with laughter after figuring it out either.
My colleagues genuinely found it funny, though. One woman actually snorted...

Oh man, I remember that Boswell thread. Was it ever resolved?

As op hasn't returned do you think they're some kinda blow job troll?
Unfortunately not but I'm sure my husband would enjoy me having that title....not the troll bit though, obviously.

OP posts:
Smallhorse · 18/12/2018 19:23

Well that is revolting

Bluesheep8 · 18/12/2018 19:26

Got it straightaway. It's still a stupid joke though

Nottheduchessofcambridge · 18/12/2018 19:28

What’s revolting?

Original poster
honestlynotagain · 18/12/2018 19:35

Well that is revolting

Tbh, I don't think it's based on a true story...

OP posts:
HettyB · 18/12/2018 20:05

...and he walked up the post office steps.

Sorry.

(So glad this wasn’t another Boswell thread)