[ExI] jokes

[BillK]

On Wed, 9 Aug 2023 at 17:51, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> Trade jokes?  With these people? Well, nothing else is going on.
> Favorite weird joke:
> "What is the difference between a duck?"
> "One of his legs is alike."
>
> Yours?    bill w
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What? This is a joke? I had to ask an AI to explain this.
BillK
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This seems to be a play on words referring to the common saying
"What's the difference between a duck? One of its legs is both the
same."
The joke is that instead of saying "both the same," it says "alike"
which sounds similar but has a different meaning.

The standard saying means that there is no difference between a duck's
two legs - they are identical.
By changing "both the same" to "alike," it humorously implies there is
some difference between a duck's two legs - one is alike the other.
This nonsensical phrase pokes fun at the original saying.

In summary:
- The common saying states a duck's two legs are identical ("both the same")
- The play on words changes "both the same" to "alike," implying there
is a difference between the two legs
- It humorously twists the standard phrase into nonsense, highlighting
the absurdity of one leg being merely "alike" the other
So the joke rests on a subtle replacement of words to alter the
meaning from "no difference" to "some difference," creating an absurd
proposition about a duck's legs.
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