[ExI] jokes

[Adrian Tymes]

On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 10:13 AM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 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
> > _______________________________________________
>
>
> What? This is a joke? I had to ask an AI to explain this.
> BillK
> ----------------------
> 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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>

Ah, but is there not a difference?  One is built to be on a duck's left
side, the other for the right side.  Mirror images they may be, but that
itself is something that differentiates them from each other.
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