Re: OT elephants, Wales (was NATLANG: Chinese parts of speech (or lack thereof)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 12, 2004, 16:36 |
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On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 12:10:59PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> > I cannot make
> > anything out of the second one. "Peanut butter" to me
> > refers to the USA, to Jimmy Carter or to Charlie
> > Brown.
>
> The only thing I can think of is that kids traditionally feed peanuts
> to circus elephants, or used to.
I always heard that joke as part of a group, with the setup found in an
earlier joke:
How do you know when an elephant has been in your refrigerator?
The round footprints in the peanut butter.
-Marcos
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