I have written
previously about jokes in Reader's Digest that are predicated on taking a well known idiom or expression and rewording it in order to produce a punch line. Here are two more examples of this despicable technique from recent issues:
A rope walks into a pub. The barman says, "You were in here causing trouble. Go on, get out."
The rope shuffles outside and winds his top half round his bottom half, vigorously rub his head against a lamppost then goes back into the pub. "Oi!" shouts the barman. "Didn't I just throw you out?"
"Nah, mate," says the rope. "I'm a frayed knot."
I'm afraid not. Get it? Ha ha. The next one:
One man hated that his wife was always nursing sick birds. At home he found a crow with a splint on his beak sitting in his favourite chair. On the dining table a feverish eagle was pecking at an Aspirin, while in the kitchen his wife was comforting a shivering little wren that she found in the snow.
"I can't take it any more!" he said. "We've got to get rid of all these darn..."
His wife cut him off in mid-curse. "Please, dear," she said. "Not in front of the chilled wren."
Oh, I get it. Not in front of the
children. Bwahaha, stop it, you're killing me.
