Spreading my curse

Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨SonnieTheseDays@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world⁩

So, I have a joke or you: “Why do elephants like to bowl?”

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I don’t f*ing know either. This was a joke on a Laffy Taffy wrapper that I read as a kid, but the answer was cut off. And I know you are like “Oh, have you tried Googling it, Sonnie?” YES, yes I have. I even emailed the company at one point in college to see if I could find the answer. Nothing.

I look at this as kind of like The Ring. You have seven days to spread this or some scary kid is going to climb out of your TV or something.

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entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
ChatGPT couldn’t find the original punchline but Gemini is claiming it’s the following:

“Because they have big balls!”

Anyways even if that’s made up, it’s way funnier than ChatGPT’s made up punchlines, and about par for a Laffy Taffy joke.

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- SonnieTheseDays@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I can now die happy. Thank you.
  
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ralakus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I did a bit of searching and found a reddit threat that looks like this one but posted 6 months ago.

The only answer that looked somewhat correct was “Because they always have a spare in their trunks.” posted by u/A_Nice_Shrubbery777

Reddit thread for those interested: old.reddit.com/r/…/a_joke_with_no_answer/

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- SonnieTheseDays@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  OMG, that was my thread! I do like that answer, though.
  
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Kitathalla@lemy.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Hmm, just spitballing here, but what could you point to on an elephant that’s unique (and/or in the public thoughts of elephants)? Memory, size, trunks, large ears, grey skin, tusks, fear of mice, (name of them?) pachyderm?

For memory - Because they’re the only animal that can remember how to score a strike?

Trunks - Because their trunks have room to spare?

Size - Because even the lions aren’t willing to tell them they crossed the line.

Mice thing - Because they always beat the mice’s half ounce balls.

Or maybe it’s something to do with bowling? Turkeys, lanes, (heavy/big balls), spares, lines, shoes…

Shoes - Because they can finally borrow shoes that fit?

Turkeys - Even elephants love getting turkeys?

Spares - I dunno

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Ghyste@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Fairly certain it’s as ralkus said: “They always keep a spare in their trunk”.

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