Kryponite and garlic

[Jonathan Lighter]

Hey, what's huge and purple and lives at the bottom of the sea?

It was so hilarious in 1964 I can't even write it!

JL

On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Michael Covarrubias <mcovarru at purdue.edu>wrote:

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> On Jan3, 2010, at 9:10 PM, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
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> > One variant that dates back to the '60s goes something like:
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> > * Why do elephants paint their toenails red?
> > * To hide in cherry trees.
> > * Have you ever seen an elephant in a cherry tree?
> > * See, it works!
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> > --Ben Zimmer
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> as i heard it, they paint their nuts red. this allowed the follow up:
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> Q: how do most monkeys die?
> A: cherry picking
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> michael covarrubias
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