On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Thomas Heald, Esquire <[email protected]> wrote: > Given that in the wake of the death of Martha Stewart's dog in a propane > explosion at a kennel prompted my responses -- that A) Martha has never > seemed the sort that would deal with hot dogs and B) her Chow puppy is > now Puppy Chow -- I can safely say that the premise of the joke is that > the salesman's stock line about the "man of the house" or "is your > father at home" given the mayhem of liquor and sexual impropriety from > an older Stewie / Dennis the Menace eliciting a "what do you think" > suggests that the salesman should indeed have guessed that adult > supervision was absent. > > This has been Jokes Explained Which Doesn't Really Make Them Funnier.
But "hot dog" is an actual punchline to the set-up you describe, it may or may not be funny (I think it mildly is - more funny given the Martha Stewart set up) and it may or may not be offensive, but it at least conforms to the logic of a joke. I don't see how the "what do you think?" is an actual punch-line. For this to be the kind of joke you suggest, it seems like the set up should be so extreme that the punch-line is simply the salesman's question "Is your mother at home"? If all the kid says is "what do you think?" then it does not really add anything. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... Smart (TV) People on Ice! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
