Best joke I've ever read

[pyesetz]

Q.	If you paddle up a canoe, and a tire falls off, how many pancakes can fit in a doghouse?
A.	None. Ice cream doesn't have bones!

From here.

BTW, did you know that the "elephant joke" was invented in 1962?  It's true!  On a related note, I once passed by a gaggle of Comp. Sci. grad students who were with a visiting professor from Israel.  They asked me to provide a joke for some reason, so I said "What's the difference between a cow?"  The students thought the joke was not acceptable for a visiting professor (although there's no actual drug abuse *in* the joke), so I gave them another one: "Q. Why does the elephant wear red sneakers?  A. Because his blue ones are in the dryer!"  A student asked why such jokes tend to mention an elephant.  I guessed that the elephant class of jokes was very old and predated the discovery of Tyrannosaurex Rex, which would have been used instead if available.  Boy was I wrong!

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[pyesetz]

The second paragraph was supposed to be a "shaggy dog" story, the kind that seems like it's going to be a joke ("It's true! And on a related note...") but then the punch line deliberately falls flat ("Boy was I wrong!").

When I was in college (early 1980's), "What's the difference between a cow?" was a standard example of a joke that's funny only to people who are stoned.  As I explained it to the Israeli professor, a pot-intoxicated person takes several seconds to realize that this joke is defective (you need two objects to have a difference), then they realize that it took them a ridiculously long time to realize that, which indicates that yes indeed they actually are stoned, leading to a laughing fit and being referred to as a "space cadet" because they're "really out of it".

So this is a marijuana joke even though the plant isn't specifically mentioned in it.

[danruk.livejournal.com]

A belated thank you. I comprehend and understand where you were trying to come from for this post now.

But I still don't GET IT. ;)