Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Starting Strong
A man who was obliged to go on a journey confided his daughter to a friend with the request that he should watch over her virtue during his absence. Some months later he returned, and found that she was pregnant. As was natural, he reproached his friend, who, however, seemed unable to explain the misfortune. "Well," asked the father at last, "where did she sleep?" -"In the same room with my son."- " But how could you let her sleep in the same room as your son after I'd begged you to look after her?" - "After all there was a screen between them. Your daughter's bed was on one side and my son's bed on the other, with the screen between them." -"And suppose he walked round the screen?" - "Yes, there is that," replied the other thoughtfully; "it might have happened like that."
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OMG. Funniest joke EVAR!!!!
But... but... suppose the son had no nose? I mean, how would he smell?
terrible!
A: take away his credit card!
...I don't even know her!
The thing I love about this joke is how clearly and immediately it illuminates Western Man's suppression of awareness of sex once having assumed the Parental Role. Lo, this farmer *didn't even realize* his son might take Extraordinary Measures and *evade* Parental Restrictions (his Id overpowering the Ego, if you will) to obtain the luscious young lass.
What a great joke.
It's funny that the man does not realize that the crafty friend has seduced the daughter and is using his inept partitioning of his son's room and feigned stupidity as plausible deniability for his actions while at the same time framing his own son, who is a good kid and would never walk around the screen.
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