Joke
A joke indicates:
- a small bag of pocket, (example, a joke with tobacco)
- historically, “an imagined history from which one tries to make believe”
- * by extension, a joke
- an error or an awkwardness
In this article, joke is presented according to the second direction. ---- A joke is a form of history or riddle, generally rather short, which causes the comic one by an unexpected association.
Since the comic effect of many jokes rests on the homophony, it is often impossible to transcribe them without ruining them, there is thus a very alive Oral tradition of the jokes.
A joke can be communicated by the means of a history, a riddle, a word game or a pronunciation.
Example of funny story
Michel invites his mother with supper. Noticing that the joint tenant of Michel, Julie, is very pretty, it tries to know if his/her son and it are only joint tenants.
Michel affirms to him that Julie and he are only friends. One week later, Julie said to Michel: “ Since your mother came supper, I do not find any more the ladle, it is bizarre ”. “I will send a small message to him, to say Michel”:
“Dear mom,
I do not say that you took the ladle and I do not say that you did not take it, but it is disappeared since your last visit.
I kiss you extremely, Michel”
A few days later, Michel receives an answer:
“Expensive wire,
I do not say that you layers with Julie, I do not say only you layers not with Julie, but if Julie slept in her bed, you would have found the ladle!
I kiss you extremely, Maman”
Examples of riddles
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That made what an Chinese which falls into the Red Sea?
An alternative exists: the riddle which types on the nerves.
The most known example is undoubtedly that of the three dwarves. Here is a version: they is three dwarves, they go to the mine. They go, they go, they go. They pass by the forest. It is normal: it is more short ! They arrive at the mine. Does the first take a shovel, the second a pickaxe, which the third takes? The riddle takes all its savor when she is repeated many times… Answer: the third dwarf…. takes the head (inflates me, me emmerde or breaks them finely to me is seldom accepted like answer). A version much more painful to listen is that of the 512 monks who walk in the desert…
Examples of word games
- an elephant, that enormously misleads , title of film
Examples of word games on the pronunciation
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Once, it is a guy who enters a bar (edge) and which arises from the other.
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Fart and Répète is held on a branch close to water. Fart falls to water. Who is on the branch? Repeat! Fart and Repeats…
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Bali and Balo is on a boat, Bali mows Balo (Bali fall to water); why doesn't Balo have any more a hair? Because Bali mowed it.
Sources
| Random links: | Datia | Abu Zakariya Yahya | The Possibility of an island | Henri Deglane | Art of the worms | Chairil_Anwar |