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12 Aug 2009, 5:47 am

I had to think about it, but I do get it...and I'm not laughing.

It just sounds like another juvenile sex joke; and this is one of the reasons why I don't see what's so exciting about the NT world of socialization, cause it's all I hear from my age group, and many times from those that are older.

I say, if you're gonna do a sex joke, at LEAST just follow everything up with "that's what she said" :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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12 Aug 2009, 6:04 am

Just goes to show, English isn't English in other places. Some jokes work better depending on the country they were created in. A joke in French may make no sense in English, but work beautifully in French.

In the UK, the general rule is usually that every sentence that has no subject but just uses words such as "it" or no clear subject can be confidently regarded as a subject about sex

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12 Aug 2009, 6:31 am

I don't understand even after its explained how it could possibly be even slightly humerous. :scratch:

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12 Aug 2009, 6:40 am

Keith wrote:

In the UK, the general rule is usually that every sentence that has no subject but just uses words such as "it" or no clear subject can be confidently regarded as a subject about sex

I'll have to watch my words then, I didn't know that.

AussieAspie, I suppose that it's because when one speaks about sex, one is supposed to whisper or say things in other words (as to keep safe the children's ears).

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12 Aug 2009, 8:16 am

gina-ghettoprincess wrote:

I don't get it. What's a double entendre?

Is that a type of drink?

From Wikipedia:

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The Oxford English Dictionary defines a double entendre as especially being used to "convey an indelicate meaning". It is often used to express potentially offensive opinions without the risks of explicitly doing so.

A double entendre may exploit puns to convey the second meaning, but puns are more often used in sentences that do not have a second meaning. Double entendres tend to rely more on multiple meanings of words, or different interpretations of the same primary meaning; they often exploit ambiguity and may be used to introduce it deliberately in a text. For example, in the thriller The Silence of the Lambs, Dr. Hannibal Lecter states he is "having an old friend for dinner" — the statement innocently reads as him having invited the friend to share an evening meal, but awareness of the character's cannibalism suggests that he intends to eat the friend as the meal. Another example of this would be the title of the short story, "The Most Dangerous Game", by Richard Connell, in which the title can refer both to a "game" that is most dangerous to play, and the "game" that is most dangerous to hunt.

In some double entendres, the second meaning may require replacing an "innocent" word by a completely dissimilar "risqué" one, this "key" being suggested only by the context, or by the altered sentence being known to the audience.

"A woman walks into a bar and asks the barman for a double entendre.

So he gives her one"

I think the humor is that the old "A ____ walks into a bar...." is a setup for a classic two-line joke.

The woman walks into a bar, and asks the barman for a classic "A _____ walks into a bar joke."

So he gives her one.

Lame in my opinion, but I think that's the joke.

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12 Aug 2009, 10:52 am

gina-ghettoprincess wrote:

TheSpecialKid wrote:

Maggiedoll wrote:

Wikipedia's example of a double entendre is when Hannibal Lecter says "I'm having an old friend for dinner."

It could be either a friend you haven't seen in a long time.
Or a friend which is an old person.

No, the joke is that Hannibal Lecter is a cannibal, so it could be that he is inviting the friend over to have dinner, or that the friend is actually the dinner.

Ohh... A "Tripple entendre"...

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12 Aug 2009, 11:04 am

duke666 wrote:

I love this thread!

I got the joke, but only because it identified itself as a double entendre. Therefor, there must be two meanings, and one must be lewd. It's a short joke, so "gave her one" or "gave it to her" must be lewd. And there must be a drink called "Double Entendre", like "Sex on the Beach", otherwise it makes no internal sense. Request + Double meaning + Lewd action = crude joke. Not even a groan.

By the way, "double entendre" has a lewd second meaning, "double entente" has two meanings that aren't lewd, so Hannibal's dinner reference was a double entente.

OK. I have a question for you. I'm wondering if anyone has heard of this. It's a school-kid prank, not a joke.

With a group of kids, some of whom know the trick, one of them tells the joke:

Two penguins are taking a shower.
One of them says pass the soap.
The other answers: What do you think I am, a radio?

The kids who know the trick laugh like crazy. Most of the kids who don't get it laugh as if they do, just to fit in. But there's usually a kid who says "I don't get it" and the other kids tease him.

There is no joke. It's just a cruel prank. Has any one heard of this or similar ones?

I don't get this joke. I got the "Double entendre" joke, but didn't find it that funny. I liked the "Cannibal having his friend over for dinner" joke.

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12 Aug 2009, 12:09 pm

I understand double entendres, but I don't get this joke.

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12 Aug 2009, 12:15 pm

AussieAspie wrote:

I don't understand even after its explained how it could possibly be even slightly humerous. :scratch:

Same here.

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12 Aug 2009, 1:20 pm

I didn't get it, but that was because I didn't know what "entendre" meant, let alone a double one (it wasn't in my dictionary either), but I thought it might be a drink, and then the bartender gave her one (the drink she asked for), so I thought, why was that funny?
I didn't get the "he gives her one" sentence as being something sexual either.
But it was more of a language barriere thing than an aspie thing as such.
Anyway I don't find it funny even after the explanation.

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12 Aug 2009, 2:03 pm

There's probably some context that OP didn't include. Maybe everyone had been softened up by humorous conversation or a few drinks. Just look at standup comedians; almost all of them follow up an opener and soften up the audience before getting down to it.

I mean the other day I said a one-liner: "worms are f*ers". Out of context it does NOT generate raucus minute-long laughter. But at the time the 10 people I was with thought it was histerical.

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12 Aug 2009, 2:18 pm

Quote:

Two penguins are taking a shower.
One of them says pass the soap.
The other answers: What do you think I am, a radio?

The kids who know the trick laugh like crazy. Most of the kids who don't get it laugh as if they do, just to fit in. But there's usually a kid who says "I don't get it" and the other kids tease him.

There is no joke. It's just a cruel prank. Has any one heard of this or similar ones?

I don't get this joke. I got the "Double entendre" joke, but didn't find it that funny. I liked the "Cannibal having his friend over for dinner" joke.

It isn't actually a joke. It has the structure of a joke, and enough ambiguous elements so people try to make sense of it, but it is actually nonsense. It's used as a cruel school-yard prank, but it's interesting because it puts NTs in the situation we are usually in, trying to figure it out.

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12 Aug 2009, 9:24 pm

I don't know enough about drinks to see the tie that would make this a joke.

I just heard a joke that would illustrate what I am saying.

A string wanders up to a bar, and the guy says aren't you a string?

The string says "I'm afraid not."

Do you get it? COME ON! It's FUNNY!! !! ! THAT is what I mean. NOW I will say the joke RIGHT!

A string wanders up to a barm and the guy says We don't serve strings here!

The string goes off, loops himself, and brushes his hair.

The guy squints and says aren't you a string?

The string says "Nope! I'm a frayed knot!"

Interestingly, this is technically, a double entendre! (English term adopted from french meaning double meaning Afraid not=NO WAY! A frayed knot is a loop or tie of line that is separated )

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12 Aug 2009, 9:41 pm

That is pretty funny. But I wouldn't have gotten it if I heard it, and couldn't see the spelling.

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12 Aug 2009, 9:43 pm

That is pretty funny. But I wouldn't have gotten it if I heard it, and couldn't see the spelling.

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12 Aug 2009, 9:50 pm

I don't get it either. And no, I didn't find it a least bit funny.

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