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I don't understand the following joke.
An elephant walking along the jungle path meets a mouse coming in the opposite direction.They stop and look at each other with interest.The elephant finally breaks the silence and says, "Why are you so small?" And the mouse looks up and says,,"I've not been well."
An elephant walking along the jungle path meets a mouse coming in the opposite direction.They stop and look at each other with interest.The elephant finally breaks the silence and says, "Why are you so small?" And the mouse looks up and says,,"I've not been well."
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Well, I don't dispute the similarity between the mouse's and Hilda Baker's comments, but surely it can't be necessary to find something funny today that one be aware of some throwaway line in a British TV programme from about 30-odd years ago!
I found it amusing just as it is, myself.
The surrealistic element is similar to the sort of thing one finds in Eddie Izzard's comedy all the time. For example, he describes how his cats often disappear behind the settee and purr. It would probably never have occurred to most of us but what he thought was, "I wonder what they're drilling for?" Only when we hear that does it occur to us that cats' purring DOES sound like a distant pneumatic drill.
Same with the mouse and the elephant. Of course the elephant would see the mouse as small at any time, but the mouse sees himself as small only now that he's not very well. Before that, he was quite big in his own eyes.
I found it amusing just as it is, myself.
The surrealistic element is similar to the sort of thing one finds in Eddie Izzard's comedy all the time. For example, he describes how his cats often disappear behind the settee and purr. It would probably never have occurred to most of us but what he thought was, "I wonder what they're drilling for?" Only when we hear that does it occur to us that cats' purring DOES sound like a distant pneumatic drill.
Same with the mouse and the elephant. Of course the elephant would see the mouse as small at any time, but the mouse sees himself as small only now that he's not very well. Before that, he was quite big in his own eyes.
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A few years ago when I first became acquainted with the vagaries of not only the concept of the British appreciation for ironic humor and the aphorisms of this site, Q and me had an officinal exchange of views containing a simulacrum of subreption, the subject of which centered on the aforementioned raillery... For my part, I gained a respect for Q as a philologist of the British persuasion.
I recall that during our exchange Q bemoaned the loss of a native appreciation for the form of humor defining all that's English.
I perceive we have an example of that inanition in this fine example of the ironic ... unfortunately appreciated only by the apodictically inclined Q (and me)...
I recall that during our exchange Q bemoaned the loss of a native appreciation for the form of humor defining all that's English.
I perceive we have an example of that inanition in this fine example of the ironic ... unfortunately appreciated only by the apodictically inclined Q (and me)...
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