I'm getting a t-shirt that says "Is it solipsistic in here or is it just me?"
Carol
On 2/7/09, Carl Worth <cworth@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This whenever, Andy wrote:
> Here's a random thing about myself that almost made it onto my list of
> 25 Things -- It's my favorite joke, which is this riddle:
>
> Q: How many surrealists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
> A: Two -- one to paint the giraffe orange, and the other to fill
> the bathtub with brightly colored machine tools!
Which reminded me of one of my favorite jokes, (which I only seem to
remember about once every 5 years or so.
Q: You're floating down the Amazon river when all of a sudden
your car breaks down, so how many pancakes does it take to
fill the Empire State Building?
[When asnwering, hold hands out about a foot apart from each other.]
A: About a rock this color.
At least that's the way I've usually told the joke. And of course
there's usually a nice moment of confusion between the question and the
answer. But then there was the time when I shared this with a good
friend of mine who I thought would really appreciate it. But instead of
that moment of confusion, he fired back an immediate response with no
pause at all:
A: Don't ask me. It's your umbrella.
I like that so much that I'll use that instead, (if the listener
responds with any sort of question at least).
-Carl
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