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genre is that it involves something that would make sense for a normal-sized object but ignores the size aspect when applied to an elephant. The humor derives from the resulting absurdity. E.g. Q. How do you hide an elephant in a strawberry patch? A. Paint his toenails red. For what it's worth, I grew up in
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I have a book, given to me by my father, that he bought in the 1960s called 101 Elephant Jokes. Every elephant joke the Gong Show contestant told came from that book, almost word for word. I remember seeing this on syndication many years ago and knowing all the answers to the jokes before he gave the
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I refined the language in the section about Asimov, but I'm not sure it belongs in that section, or if his joke is even a true elephant joke. It seems more like a political joke that plays on the existence of elephant jokes. ("Oh, haha, you thought this was an elephant joke? But actually it's a play
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There is definitely an elephant joke genre; my mother introduced me to them (her family was from the south/Texas, if regionality is a question). I even had a book of them once. Elephant jokes are my favorite and I was thrilled to find an encyclopedia page on them because I was trying to find just
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Surely this should be: "How do you get two whales in a Mini?" "In" is often understood to mean "into", even more so in this sequence of references to loading up a Mini with various large animals. Using "into" explicitly here hurts the punchline.
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There is a typo in the joke about the elephant and the plum. It asks for the difference, but answers with how they are alike. I'm going to change it, just giving everyone the heads up.--
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