[karajorma]

Originally posted by TopAce
I think the problem with that joke is the 'where?'
That 'Where' should have been in the 'at which of your part of body' meaning, but the bunny answered where the accident actually happened.
The camel is needed to make the 'In the desert' the answer.

Nope. The problem with the joke is that it's not funny. If you say at which of your part of body you make it even less funny that the atttempt at a joke it already is because the so-called humour in the joke is that the bunny confuses where on your body with where geographically.

Seriously stop trying to frankenstein the joke and just leave it to rot.

Actually forget about wordplay. It's pretty silly to try wordplay in a language you don't know that well. Try a longer joke where the humour is based on the situation like the two I told. They'll probably translate better.

[Ford Prefect]

What did the farmer say when his tractor went missing?




"Where's my tractor?"

[aldo_14]

If you have explain a joke, it stops being funny & actually has the inverse effect.... it becomes a black hole of humour.  And the more you try to explain it, the worse it gets.

True, that.

[Moonsword]

www.darwinawards.com

Clarification: No, that's not a joke.  It's funny as hell sometimes, though.  Too bad most of it's true...

[Stealth]

1. Why a bunny?
2. Why is the bunny agressive?
3. Why is a bunny going to a surgery instead of a vets?
4. What the hell is a camelot meant to be in the first place?
5. Why would it be shooting rabbits?
6. Most importantly of all why did you think the fact that camelot and camel are similar words was at all funny?

1&2:  "Aggressive bunny" jokes are a lot of different jokes.  kind of like blonde jokes.  and "minority" jokes. and bar jokes. etc.
3:  probably translation error
4:  see 1&2
5:  probably lost in translation

go easy on the guy.  Not only is his culture different from yours (which is probably why you don't find the joke funny, because i don't find it funny either ) but he speaks his second language better than most people speak their first language.  and i'll bet everyone making fun of his joke can't speak another language as well as he can.

[Sesquipedalian]

I speak Latin that well.  But then, I'm not making fun of him.

---------
A professor of chemistry wanted to teach his 5th grade class a lesson about the evils of liquor, so he produced an experiment that involved a glass of water, a glass of whiskey and two worms.

"Now, class. Observe closely the worms," said the professor putting a worm first into the water. The worm in the water writhed about, happy as a worm in water could be.

The second worm, he put into the whiskey. It writhed painfully, and quickly sank to the bottom, dead as a doornail.

"Now, what lesson can we derive from this experiment?" the professor asked.

Johnny, who naturally sits in back, raised his hand and wisely, responded, "Drink whiskey and you won't get worms."

[Petrarch of the VBB]

TopAce's "Joke", fixed:

A rabbit walks into a vet's.
"Doctor, I've been shot by a camel"
"Where?"
"In the desert"

So Kara's right, it's not funny at all.

[Stealth]

it is pretty lame

[Ford Prefect]

Okay, stop me if you've heard this one! TopAce walks into this bar with Bush, the Pope, a rabbi, a blonde and Michael Jackson....

[ionia23]

-The Blind Man & The Blonde Bartender

A blind man enters a "Ladies Bar" by mistake. He finds his way to a bar stool and orders a drink. After sitting there for a while, he yells to the bartender, "Hey, you wanna hear a blonde joke?"

The bar immediately falls absolutely quiet.

In a very deep, husky voice, the woman next to him says, "Before you tell that joke, sir, I think it is just fair -- giving that you are blind -- that you should know five things:

1 - The bartender is a blonde girl.

2 - The bouncer is a blonde girl.

3 - I'm a 6 feet tall, 220 lb. blonde woman with a black belt in karate.

4 - The woman sitting next to me is blonde and is a professional weight lifter.

5 - The lady to your right is a blonde and is a professional wrestler.

Now think about it seriously, Mister. Do you still wanna tell that joke?

The blind man thinks for a second, shakes his head and declares, "Nah....Not if I'm gonna have to explain it five times."

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Stealth
go easy on the guy.  Not only is his culture different from yours (which is probably why you don't find the joke funny, because i don't find it funny either ) but he speaks his second language better than most people speak their first language.  and i'll bet everyone making fun of his joke can't speak another language as well as he can.

I wasn't being hard on TopAce. My point is that if you aren't fluent in a language you shoudn't really try to make jokes based on that language. Instead stick to situational or observational humour which translates well.

I personally speak a bit of portuguese but I wouldn't dream of telling wordplay jokes in it because I know that my skills aren't good enough for it.

Lastly TopAce isn't trying to waste our time telling us jokes he knows we won't like so I was trying to point out that he's wasting his time telling us jokes of that nature because they won't make us laugh. As you say it's a cultural thing but there are some jokes that are funny in any culture so it's better to stick to things of that nature.

[Stealth]

i agree with you that you shouldn't try to tell a joke by translating it into a language you don't speak fluently, and/or to a culture you aren't familiar with

[ionia23]

we've got a guy here from India.  The only thing funnier than the jokes he tells is listening to him tell them.  He speaks better English than the rest of us do, it's just funny to hear a pretty foul and slang joke spoken so professionally

Guy happens to be a genius too.  Originator of one of my favorite quotes:

"Democracy is empowerment for idiots."

[Stealth]

the indian accent is probably the funniest accent in the world

[ionia23]

Eh, I think of it as 'funny' in the sense that it is so unbelievably proper.  Guy has a master's degree and is simply brilliant at programming, I know better than to think it's an intelligence thing.

One of the single funniest things I ever heard was when we had the following on a conference call -

Our SQL admin, who's a native of Russia
Help desk for our Canadian division, who's from Quebec
Our ERP developer, the previously mentioned gentleman from India
Our customs broker from our plant in Nogales, Mexico
Our network admin, from Israel
and one sales manager, from Dallas, Texas.

All of them with the thickest accents you've ever heard.

Oh man, I recorded that.  If I can chop out the personal bits, I'll post it.  Believe it or not, they fixed the problem.

[Singh]

Originally posted by Stealth
the indian accent is probably the funniest accent in the world

Why would do you think that? Could say the same about British or even American accents.
 

[Ford Prefect]

The funniest accent in the world is unquestionably the Chinese accent.

[jdjtcagle]

That "was" the most arrogant racist thing I've heard anybody say here, Stealth

EDIT:  and it continous with Prefect

[Lightspeed]

You havent heard any racist things in your whole life then, jdjt.

[Ford Prefect]

Oh loosen up. They make fun of accents on frigging Saturday Night Live, for crying out loud.