--Enigmatic
Posted by Treason (Member # 7587) on :
I misread it as well. Ha!
Posted by bunbun (Member # 6814) on :
Yikes! and yikes!
Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :
ooh ooh! Lemme guess!
I guess...load! Yes, that's it. You read the headline as "Kenya elephant evacuation crumbles under jumbo toad" right?
Right?
--Mel
Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
And CrowsWife is the winner. Not for being correct but for at least following instructions. *pthbbt!*
--Enigmatic
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Well, I read it correctly, but was assuming that "evacuation" had something to do with the emptying of the bowels.
I guess it's a nurse thing.
Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :
OK, real guess: you misread "jumbo" as "dumbo"?
--Mel
Posted by Amanecer (Member # 4068) on :
*whispers to CrowsWife* I think it was evacuation. Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :
*whispers back* but evacuation can only be misinterpreted, not misread.
--Mel
Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
quote:Originally posted by theCrowsWife: *whispers back* but evacuation can only be misinterpreted, not misread.
--Mel
How delightfully innocent. No, I assure you it was misread, to humorous effect.
--Enigmatic
Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :
Ah, well if you add an extra letter as well as change one...sure, I can see that. But then "crumbles" really doesn't work all that well...Well, it does lend itself to an interesting although implausible mental image.
--Mel
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
You know, the more I think about it, the more that headline is funny even when read correctly.
You should send it to Headlines.
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
I don't get it.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Well, elephant dung tends to be, well, crumbly.
Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
quote:Originally posted by ElJay: I don't get it.
That's funny, because your name is the two letters that would be going into what I thought it said. There's nothing to get about the second half of the title, which seems to be why some prefer the scatalogical interpretation. I just thought it was a very strange thing for a news article to be about.
--Enigmatic
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
"Holy dung heap, Batman!" He evacuated.
B. I hope to never be with you in Florida during a hurricane evacuation. Especially if we're on an evacuation route.
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
Nope, still don't get it.
Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
I really wasn't going to do this joke. Honestly.
Hey ElJay, what do you do when an elephant comes through your window?
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
Ooh! I know! I know!
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
What do ducks have to do with anything? There aren't any ducks in Kenya, are there?
Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :
Other than milk and ice cream, what else comes in gallons?
*I'm hoping you either get it or admit you've been joking before someone spells it out, because I fear that someone may be me*
Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
Well, when you throw a breadcrumb a duck will swim for it, which was actually the punchline I had in mind. Yours works too, but isn't nearly as disgusting.
--Enigmatic. (Forearms like Popeye, this guy)
Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :
Now that I think of it, I tink it was supposed to be "quarts".
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
Gasoline, of course.
Now would I be joking in my own brother's semi-naughty thread? Whyever would I do a thing like that?
Edit: Drat, too slow, this was supposed to be under Olivet's first post.
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
Water?
Fish in an aquarium?
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
I've finally realized why they call website monitors "janitor."
Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
Olivet: Her "I don't get it" routine was our dad's response whenever one of us told a dirty joke, trying to embarrass us by forcing an explanation.
ElJay: You quit too soon! This could have been milked for much longer. Not unlike the elephant in question.
Bob: It's the mops.
Enigmatic: signature.
Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :
You got me! Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
See, I woulda kept going if it was just us playing, but I would've felt bad if Olivet felt the need to spell it out. Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Enigmatic, I thought you thought "evacuation" was another word, which rhymes, but which contains a "j" and an "l."
Sorry.
Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :
See, I was terribly, terribly sheltered as a child. I didn't even learn most slang or curse words until I was in college or after. I still ask my husband about stuff, sometimes.
I just... remember being the only one who didn't get these sorts of jokes. And even occassionally saying things that were unintentionally risque. It was terribly embarrassing, so I sympathize with the... uninnitiated.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
I thought it would be great to have a thread where we say how we misread thread titles, because I have had some doozies.
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
Elizabeth, that is what he meant.
quote: quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Originally posted by ElJay: I don't get it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
That's funny, because your name is the two letters that would be going into what I thought it said.
And no problem, Olivet. I still say unintentionally risque things all the time. Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :
Until college, I had only ever heard the word 'flaccid' in completely innocent contexts, like to describe vegetable matter on the wrong end of osmosis and the like.
The lunch table howled one day when I expressed my dissatisfaction with the quality of the cafeteria lettuce. Someone who could tell I had NO CLUE what everyone was laughing at was kind enough to quietly inform me, "Freud would have had a FEILD DAY with you, Olivia." THEN I got it.
Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
quote:Originally posted by Elizabeth: I thought it would be great to have a thread where we say how we misread thread titles, because I have had some doozies.
I kind of hoped that would happen with this one, but instead we're just telling elephant jokes.
--Enigmatic
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
What do you get when you cross an elephant with...
oh, never mind.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
El Jay:
True confession: did not read all the way through before posting that.
Enigmatic: Make a new thread about first readings of thread titles. It will get derailed anyway, but still, it would be fun.
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I misread it as well. Ha!
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Someone who could tell I had NO CLUE what everyone was laughing at was kind enough to quietly inform me, "Freud would have had a FEILD DAY with you, Olivia." THEN I got it.