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iceveela
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03 May 2012, 10:28 pm

So, there was a joke i remembered a few years back when watching cartoons from Dexters Laboratory.


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A physics professor and his assistant are working on liberating negatively-charged hydroxyl ions, when all of a sudden, the assistant says, "Wait, professor, what if the salicylic acids do not accept the hydroxyl ions?" And the professor responds, "That's no hydroxyl ion; that's my wife!"


I am now in college and still haven't the slightest clue what this joke could mean... does anyone else know?


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03 May 2012, 10:30 pm

I believe that's just a reference to Henny Youngman's old one liner: "Take my wife. Please!"



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03 May 2012, 11:05 pm

It could be a "No soap. Radio!" type joke or a shaggy dog story. And I think he's thinking of "That's no lady. That's my wife!"



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04 May 2012, 1:59 am

redrobin62 wrote:
I believe that's just a reference to Henny Youngman's old one liner: "Take my wife. Please!"


NO!
But you're on the right track.

Its an old standard Vaudeville joke: you say to a married men "who was that lady I saw you with last night?"

And he replies "that was no lady! That was my wife."
(ie his wife cant be described as a "lady").