Knock, knock.
Hi,
1. - Knock, knock.
- Who’s there?
- Butcher.
- Butcher who?
Butcher arms around me honey, hold me tight.
2. - Knock, knock.
- Who’s there?
- Fanny.
- Fanny who?
Fanny body at home?
Could you explain, please, what are the grounds for these jokes?
“Put your arms” and “Anybody” can’t possibly be pronounced that way, can they?
Thanks.
They can't. But you got it right. That's why these are JOKES.
Fanny body [fe@nibAdi]
Anybody [Enib@di]
couldn't be more different...
<<Fanny body [fe@nibAdi]
Anybody [Enib@di]
couldn't be more different... >>
Yes, but they're close, and that's what makes them funny. They're totally off the wall and unexpected :) You might have to do a double take the first time you hear them.
Lol, the thing with jokes is that to appreciate them properly, it is essential to have a sense of humor*!
*I hope you're pleased I'm using your dialect of English!
<<*I hope you're pleased I'm using your dialect of English! >>
Good. Keep it up. Maybe it'll get you somewhere in life ;)
Just compare :
3. - Knock, knock.
- Who’s there?
- Solly.
- Solly who?
- Solly you've been tloubled. We makee mistakee.
This one is really funny and "legitimate".
But I can't get the following two at all:
4. - Knock, knock.
- Who’s there?
- Tish.
- Tish who?
Tishoo, all fall down.
5.
- Knock, knock.
- Who’s there?
- Sonya.
- Sonya who?
- Sonya foot, I can smell it from here.
Sonya foot = it's on your foot (feces)
I prefer Limericks:
There was this tall fellow called Stu
Who wasn't quite sure what to do.
When his head hit the ceiling
He had this strange feeling
Of being a giraffe in the zoo.
There once was a brave bloke from Kent
Whose c**k was so long it bent.
To save himself trouble
He put it in double
And instead of coming he went.
Nice ones, Damian, tnx.
And Tishoo, all fall down?
<instead of coming he went>
What a vivid illusration for the come vs go subject! Pity it’s too spicy.
4. - Knock, knock.
- Who’s there?
- Tish.
- Tish who?
Tishoo, all fall down.
Ah-tishoo is supposed to sound like sneezing. "Ah-tishoo, ah-tishoo we all fall down" is from a nursery rhyme, the joke appears to be alluding to this.
Not commonly known, I presume.
Thank you, Laurie.
Ring a ring a roses
A pocket full of posies
A-tishoo! A-tishoo!
We all fall down!
Seemingly innocent and childish words from a nursery rhyme but they really do have a tragic significance.....the rhyme originates from 17th century England and actually refers to the great plague epidemic of 1665/66 - known as the Great Plague - which killed a huge number of people right across the country and spread like wildfire.
Thankfully it was a real wildfire (that knoiwn as the Great Fire of London in September 1666) which put paid to a great deal of the highly contagious infection in those very insanitary days in a city of very crowded, very narrow and very filthy rat and other vermin infested cobbled streets. All that was the backdrop to the novel "Forever Amber".
The ring a ring of roses refers to the circular shaped pale pink coloured rashes that broke out on the skin in the early development of the disease within the victim, and which was followed by fits of sneezing as the plague took a tighter grip, and not long afterwards the victim died....hence the "fall down bit". The "pocket full of posies" bit refers to the precautions people took in the vain hope of keeping the infection at bay in the first place - by stuffing pockets full of small bunches of flowers!
http://www.landofnurseryrhymes.co.uk/htm_pages/midi%20-%20Ring%20a%20Ring%20a%20Roses.htm