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   ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 19:17:37 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

   please tell me the most obscure joke you know

   (feel free to explain or not explain it, depending on what you find more amusing to think of me reading it)

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     aburka 🫣 (aburka@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 19:17:37 JST aburka 🫣

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     @whitequark this labeling mistake which is funny if you know at least a few words of English, Spanish and French

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     Mike Prior-Jones (drmikepj@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 06:19:34 JST Mike Prior-Jones

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     @whitequark in Germany there are two cities called Frankfurt. The main one and the other one. (Requires knowledge of German geography and a bit of German vocabulary)

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     BenderRobot (benderrobot@mastodontech.de)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 06:20:32 JST BenderRobot

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     • Steve Lord

     @stevelord @whitequark Due to COVID19 all TCP applications are being converted to UDP to avoid Handshakes.

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     Steve Lord (stevelord@bladerunner.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 06:20:34 JST Steve Lord

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     @whitequark I could tell you a joke about UDP but I don't know if you'd get it.

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 06:21:12 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @niconiconi @whitequark That is obscure indeed.
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     niconiconi (niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 06:21:13 JST niconiconi

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     @whitequark@mastodon.social
     Q: Why does a desktop computer eventually arc over and blow up after a few years of Web browsing?
     
     A: Too much tracking.

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     artemist (artemist@social.mildlyfunctional.gay)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 06:38:03 JST artemist

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     @whitequark I sent this as a postcard with the caption "KVV HATES this ONE TRICK to speed up your commute"

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     lj·rk (ljrk@todon.eu)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 07:25:21 JST lj·rk

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     @whitequark Q: What's an anagram of Banach-Tarsky?

     A: Banach-Tarsky Banach-Tarsky.

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     J. "Henry" Waugh (jhwgh1968@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 15:16:49 JST J. "Henry" Waugh

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     @whitequark okay the most obscure joke I know:

     Two chemists walk into the bar

     The first says, "I'll have a glass of H2O"

     The second says, "I'll have a glass of the same"

     The first could barely contain his rage, as his assassination attempt had failed

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     Cassandra 📍 San Francisco (for real!) (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 15:16:52 JST Cassandra 📍 San Francisco (for real!)

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     @schratze @jhwgh1968 @whitequark As opposed to "I'll have a glass of H2O too," which is read the same as "I'll have a glass of H2O2."

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     schratze (schratze@todon.nl)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 15:16:53 JST schratze

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     • J. "Henry" Waugh

     @jhwgh1968 @whitequark what

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     ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@rap.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 10:35:38 JST ティージェーグレェ

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     • aburka 🫣

     @aburka Nice!

     There are lots of interlingual soy milk jokes (comic examples attached).

     Though, all this reminds me of DJ Statik (of Das Bunker notoriety, though in more recent years deejayin at Midnight Mess in Tokyo, Japan) going out to Indian food with me and DJ Abattoir (RIP).

     He held up a piece of naan bread and asked me: "これはナンですか。”
     「kore wa nan desu ka」Translation:
     "Is this naan?"

     Which is a homonym of これは何ですか。「kore wa nan desu ka」
     Translation:
     "What is this?"

     Definitely one of those kinds of jokes that required interlingual knowledge and literacy to grok.

     @whitequark

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     dram🎀 (dramforever@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jun-2025 01:19:46 JST dram🎀

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     @whitequark someone linked to this thread and now i have to start replying here

     i think this one has a shot https://mastodon.social/@dramforever/114176237701391708