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icymist

(15,888 posts)
Sat Dec 2, 2017, 10:14 PM Dec 2017

Strangest 'joke' said to me by some lady at the store. I don't get it.

I was just at the grocery store and this lady comes right up to me, asks if I have a sense of humor. Okay, I will admit that some say I do indeed have a sense of humor. The lady then points at the bread in the aisle, "I only have one child and I am always looking for bread". After a moment of silence I told her that I didn't get it. She keeps looking at me with a smile for another moment as if I'm supposed to be reading her mind. "Because they breed like animals so there's never any bread." I just stare at her. There is one other person nearby, a man and he just shrugs his shoulders when I look up at him. I express to her that I really don't get it. "Oh come on", she says as she begins walking away. The man and I are now looking at each other with this WTF expression on our faces.

Anyone know what this kind of joke is about? Because she said 'breed like animals' I was suspecting something racial, but there was no other minority around. If it was racial, why would she assume that I would be on the same wave length? What a weird night. The rain must be getting to everybody.

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Strangest 'joke' said to me by some lady at the store. I don't get it. (Original Post) icymist Dec 2017 OP
It's the full moon. It is a super moon too. The loonies are even worse than normal. appleannie1943 Dec 2017 #1
My roommate says it's because Mercury is in retrograde. icymist Dec 2017 #5
No clue... Mike Nelson Dec 2017 #2
Did she seem to be in an altered state? n/t LuckyCharms Dec 2017 #3
Like in 'knows where the drugs are'? icymist Dec 2017 #16
Sometimes when I'm baked, I'll say something I think is hilarious and LuckyCharms Dec 2017 #24
As Joe Walsh sez... Ohiya Dec 2017 #52
I don't get it either radical noodle Dec 2017 #4
That could be it. icymist Dec 2017 #7
Its an inside joke unblock Dec 2017 #6
LOL! icymist Dec 2017 #8
When I describe something as an inside joke, that is almost *always* what I mean. nt eppur_se_muova Dec 2017 #76
Twilight Zone........ delisen Dec 2017 #9
Yeah, it's weird, damn weird. It's like the entire planet is on something and having a bad trip! You RKP5637 Dec 2017 #14
Maybe the Trumpsters are celebrating in their weird little way. icymist Dec 2017 #18
Yeah, well could be! That, was a strange encounter you had. n/t RKP5637 Dec 2017 #23
... probably talking about overpopulation and eventually a food crisis, maybe ... n/t RKP5637 Dec 2017 #10
I wonder if she told the joke wrong Sanity Claws Dec 2017 #11
Sure was wrong. Wrong place. Wrong joke. Wrong person to tell it too. icymist Dec 2017 #21
Schizophrenics often do that LeftInTX Dec 2017 #31
Insanity? Neurosis? Cray Cary? icymist Dec 2017 #44
Flight of ideas or loose associations. nolabear Dec 2017 #77
Looking to get bred? Maybe? jberryhill Dec 2017 #26
That's what I was thinking! Ohiya Dec 2017 #53
Thats a weird one for the grocery aisle jberryhill Dec 2017 #59
Where do ya go to get bred? Ohiya Dec 2017 #70
"How do you know I've got children? Because I have bread/bred" ??? muriel_volestrangler Dec 2017 #62
Yes, it sounds as if she was aiming for a janx Dec 2017 #71
I tend to be a "nut magnet," too. Buns_of_Fire Dec 2017 #12
As I continued shopping I kept looking around to see if she was near. icymist Dec 2017 #32
Soylent green is Peepull!!!!!!! spiderpig Dec 2017 #13
I spent a good deal of my childhood in NE Ohio. icymist Dec 2017 #27
We are weird, but in the best possible way. spiderpig Dec 2017 #30
Afraid not. I lived out there in the 70's before moving onward. icymist Dec 2017 #33
I moved in 79, but I'm still hard-core Cleveburgh. spiderpig Dec 2017 #34
The Browns? I just don't know. icymist Dec 2017 #38
Finally someone who remembers guoulardi captain queeg Dec 2017 #37
Ghoulardi was awesome. Remember him blowing up pics of Dorothy Fuldheim? spiderpig Dec 2017 #64
Remember Dorothy captain queeg Dec 2017 #68
Parma???!!! (cue "Who Stole the Kisha" theme) spiderpig Dec 2017 #78
Ghoulardi? Wasnt he the guy that blew up mice madinmaryland Dec 2017 #74
I never saw that captain queeg Dec 2017 #75
WTF DangerousUrNot Dec 2017 #15
It was they only way I could make sense of it! icymist Dec 2017 #25
Never trust a person who starts with "do you have a sense of humor"? RhodeIslandOne Dec 2017 #17
I just knew stuff like this was going to happen when they legalized pot out here! icymist Dec 2017 #28
It's a new female version of the show "Impractical Jokers" Yupster Dec 2017 #19
There must be ergot on the rye C_U_L8R Dec 2017 #20
+1 Ms. Toad Dec 2017 #36
Burn her! Gabi Hayes Dec 2017 #39
You would think this would happen in the orange juice aisle. icymist Dec 2017 #46
That is hilarious ProudLib72 Dec 2017 #22
Told it wrong? Do you know what this was supposed to be? icymist Dec 2017 #29
Hell no! ProudLib72 Dec 2017 #35
Now *that* was a hilarious joke. salin Dec 2017 #73
She must be looking for nut bread. At yeast she didn't bother you again. betsuni Dec 2017 #40
Disappeared as fast as she appeared! icymist Dec 2017 #42
She confused bread with dough Deb Dec 2017 #41
So it was racist. I still don't get it. icymist Dec 2017 #43
Bread Cash Dough. How is that racist? JustABozoOnThisBus Dec 2017 #65
This message was self-deleted by its author Dave Starsky Dec 2017 #72
I would have been stumped, too. herding cats Dec 2017 #45
Or maybe the beginning of the Zombie Apocalypse. icymist Dec 2017 #47
Oh... I just laughed so hard! herding cats Dec 2017 #49
Yeah. Zombies with no teeth. Pathetic! icymist Dec 2017 #50
Racists used to being around racists... Adrahil Dec 2017 #48
Well, that was totally unnecessary. icymist Dec 2017 #51
Beleive me, we almost choked on our lunch! NT Adrahil Dec 2017 #55
Maybe she wanted you to ....Catch Her in the Rye. alphafemale Dec 2017 #54
Or pumpernickel jberryhill Dec 2017 #60
Strangers telling you jokes in the grocery store is just weird Nonhlanhla Dec 2017 #56
Maybe she meant to say,"I only have one child so I am always looking to get bred". bread The Wielding Truth Dec 2017 #57
Note to self: If stranger ever asks if you have a sense of humor, say no!!! 50 Shades Of Blue Dec 2017 #58
Maybe the other voice in her head forgot to tell you the rest of the joke. Vinca Dec 2017 #61
She might have been hitting on you... bred, not bread. Thor_MN Dec 2017 #63
She's a republican rock Dec 2017 #66
Breed, Bred, play on words. MineralMan Dec 2017 #67
Racist joke aimed an brown and black people. Blue_true Dec 2017 #69

icymist

(15,888 posts)
5. My roommate says it's because Mercury is in retrograde.
Sat Dec 2, 2017, 10:19 PM
Dec 2017

Makes me want to bang my head against the wall a while.

LuckyCharms

(17,455 posts)
24. Sometimes when I'm baked, I'll say something I think is hilarious and
Sat Dec 2, 2017, 10:31 PM
Dec 2017

several hours later, I have no idea what I meant. It's like I just threw a bunch of random words together.

delisen

(6,044 posts)
9. Twilight Zone........
Sat Dec 2, 2017, 10:20 PM
Dec 2017

Life has gotten very strange....is it something "they" are adding to the water?

2016 came and its like the end of the old planet earth and the beginning of something else

RKP5637

(67,112 posts)
14. Yeah, it's weird, damn weird. It's like the entire planet is on something and having a bad trip! You
Sat Dec 2, 2017, 10:24 PM
Dec 2017

stand back and look at earth. A tiny spinning ball of dirt with the only life we know of now, and many are trying to kill each other off or at minimal make their lives miserable. Is that F'ed up or what.

Sanity Claws

(21,852 posts)
11. I wonder if she told the joke wrong
Sat Dec 2, 2017, 10:20 PM
Dec 2017

Bred and bread are homonyms.
Maybe she should have said bred instead of breed.

icymist

(15,888 posts)
21. Sure was wrong. Wrong place. Wrong joke. Wrong person to tell it too.
Sat Dec 2, 2017, 10:29 PM
Dec 2017

There are some days I wish I had stayed in bed.

LeftInTX

(25,543 posts)
31. Schizophrenics often do that
Sat Dec 2, 2017, 10:40 PM
Dec 2017

There is a term for it, but can't remember what it is.

When I was a student nurse, a schizophrenic looked at my name tag and said, "You're a paramecium!" I couldn't help but laugh. Yes, my name does sound a bit like paramecium, but it was the first time and last time that anyone every made that strange association.

icymist

(15,888 posts)
44. Insanity? Neurosis? Cray Cary?
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 05:33 AM
Dec 2017

Donald Trump Syndrome? The Elevator Quit Working the Upper Floors?

Oh well. Maybe I will just blame it on the moon.

nolabear

(41,991 posts)
77. Flight of ideas or loose associations.
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 05:33 PM
Dec 2017

I've had therapy patients who were really compelling to listen to because if you could grab hold and hang on they made a brilliant, if utterly disjointed, kind of linguistic sense.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,361 posts)
62. "How do you know I've got children? Because I have bread/bred" ???
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 10:39 AM
Dec 2017

Not exactly a thigh-slapper, but it would make some sense.

janx

(24,128 posts)
71. Yes, it sounds as if she was aiming for a
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 03:16 PM
Dec 2017

pun using the noun bread and the past participle of breed, but she was in some way impaired and could not pull it off.

icymist

(15,888 posts)
32. As I continued shopping I kept looking around to see if she was near.
Sat Dec 2, 2017, 10:41 PM
Dec 2017

Vanished! Never saw her coming and don't know where she went.

spiderpig

(10,419 posts)
13. Soylent green is Peepull!!!!!!!
Sat Dec 2, 2017, 10:23 PM
Dec 2017

Hell if I know what she meant. Was she from Cleveland? (My hometown, so cool off.)

icymist

(15,888 posts)
27. I spent a good deal of my childhood in NE Ohio.
Sat Dec 2, 2017, 10:35 PM
Dec 2017

I have met strange before. Never had it seek me out, though.

icymist

(15,888 posts)
33. Afraid not. I lived out there in the 70's before moving onward.
Sat Dec 2, 2017, 10:43 PM
Dec 2017

Central Ill-noise and then western Washingtoon.

spiderpig

(10,419 posts)
34. I moved in 79, but I'm still hard-core Cleveburgh.
Sat Dec 2, 2017, 10:51 PM
Dec 2017

Right down to the Brownies. Do you think in my lifetime???

icymist

(15,888 posts)
38. The Browns? I just don't know.
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 02:45 AM
Dec 2017

I used to root for the Browns just to PO the Steelers fans. Really got some of them going too. I still remember that fight song as it played every year;

captain queeg

(10,240 posts)
37. Finally someone who remembers guoulardi
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 01:16 AM
Dec 2017

Yes. Apparently plenty of ex NE Ohions here but I’ve never have heard anyone mention the guy who preceded Big Chuck and Hoolihan. I recently saw some old videos of him on YouTube.

My favorite was when some poor kid would send in a beautiful model they’d spent 60 hours building and he’d stick a big firecracker in it and blow it to shit. And that bizarre laugh that would accompany it. I was just a little tyke in those days.

spiderpig

(10,419 posts)
64. Ghoulardi was awesome. Remember him blowing up pics of Dorothy Fuldheim?
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 11:41 AM
Dec 2017

His son is the famous director Paul Thomas Anderson.

Ernie Anderson (Ghoulardi's real name) was also famous for negotiating a landmark deal for narrating the Shell Bicentennial Minutes back in the 70s. Made him a fortune.

captain queeg

(10,240 posts)
68. Remember Dorothy
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 01:09 PM
Dec 2017

I sure remember her but don’t remember him blowing up her picture. Could you imagine what Dorothy or Walter Chronkite or Huntley and Brinkley would think of politics today? Mostly a conservative bunch but their love for America showed.

I was really little. I seem to remember Goulardi liked to show bad grade B monster movies. My mom loved those so would let me stay up and watch sometimes. I remember Big Chuck and Hoolihan better. My mom was Polish so she thought the Kielbasi Kid and the Parma jokes were real funny.

captain queeg

(10,240 posts)
75. I never saw that
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 05:23 PM
Dec 2017

But I wouldn’t put it past him and probably could have gotten away with it back then. I just remember all the terrible schlock monster and sci-fi movies. My vote for worst ever was a movie called The Wizard of Mars. Done on such a low budget. There was a scene where the astronauts were in a life raft, after a crash I suppose. They were being attacked by some sort of alligator things. You could actually see the ropes that were pulling the alligators thru the water.

DangerousUrNot

(431 posts)
15. WTF
Sat Dec 2, 2017, 10:25 PM
Dec 2017

Weird shit. What made me laugh is when you said you thought it was something racial
Like minorities breed like animals? I’m black and have heard many racial jokes but don’t see a connection.

icymist

(15,888 posts)
25. It was they only way I could make sense of it!
Sat Dec 2, 2017, 10:32 PM
Dec 2017

I'm white, but am a sexual minority. I know how mean people can be so I'm always suspect when strangers come right up to me out of the blue to says jokes!

 

RhodeIslandOne

(5,042 posts)
17. Never trust a person who starts with "do you have a sense of humor"?
Sat Dec 2, 2017, 10:26 PM
Dec 2017

They are already admitting their humor sucks.

icymist

(15,888 posts)
28. I just knew stuff like this was going to happen when they legalized pot out here!
Sat Dec 2, 2017, 10:37 PM
Dec 2017

Hell, there's some people who keep waiting at a stop sign for it to turn green.

Yupster

(14,308 posts)
19. It's a new female version of the show "Impractical Jokers"
Sat Dec 2, 2017, 10:28 PM
Dec 2017

Shew had an earpiece and her friends told her to say something completely pointless to see how you react. Then she wwent back to her friends and they all laughed and laughed and laughed.

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
22. That is hilarious
Sat Dec 2, 2017, 10:31 PM
Dec 2017

She told it a little wrong, but it's too damned funny. I'm going to have to remember that for work.

Deb

(3,742 posts)
41. She confused bread with dough
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 03:47 AM
Dec 2017

Slang for cash. An insulting racist joke and your response was perfect, she publicly humiliated herself.

icymist

(15,888 posts)
43. So it was racist. I still don't get it.
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 05:25 AM
Dec 2017

So she is always looking for (cash). But, (my invisible friends) they breed like animals. I'm going to stick with "This is your brain on drugs". "With a side of schizophrenia".

"I'm ready for my closeup now Mr Freud".

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,364 posts)
65. Bread Cash Dough. How is that racist?
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 11:59 AM
Dec 2017

Not much of a joke, but I don't see how it applies to one race or another.

Response to Deb (Reply #41)

herding cats

(19,567 posts)
45. I would have been stumped, too.
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 05:39 AM
Dec 2017

It makes no sense.

At best I might have finally said something like, what do you see when the Pilsbury Dough Boy Bends over? Just to break the tension, but I don't get their joke, or what they meant.

My best guess is they were elderly and didn't recall a joke correctly or were deeply confused. Either way they were using you, a stranger, as a sounding board to try and prove their friends/family were the ones mistaken and not them. My Nana was infamous for this in her latter years.

icymist

(15,888 posts)
47. Or maybe the beginning of the Zombie Apocalypse.
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 05:52 AM
Dec 2017

I used to work in nursing homes and have been bitten by people with no teeth. It was kind of depressing for them.

herding cats

(19,567 posts)
49. Oh... I just laughed so hard!
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 05:59 AM
Dec 2017

Please, don't think less of me for it! It was the visuals my mind conjured that did me in!

 

Adrahil

(13,340 posts)
48. Racists used to being around racists...
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 05:55 AM
Dec 2017

Assume every white person is also a racist. I attended a party for one my friends' daughter. Her Grandmother was there and casually dropped in a story about a "nigger woman" she knows. She was shocked that my wife and I took offense.

Nonhlanhla

(2,074 posts)
56. Strangers telling you jokes in the grocery store is just weird
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 08:17 AM
Dec 2017

and she simply sounds nutters.

Although, I once had a stranger tell me a joke in the grocery store that still cracks me up. Old lady (she told me she was 96 and thankful each day for waking up), asked me where some item was, then proceeded to tell me a naughty joke.

This was the joke: guy leads a sex talk, asks the audience how often they do the deed: "twice a week?" - about half the audience raises their hands; "once a month?" - another group raises their hands, etc.; until finally, "once a year?" - one guy raises his hand enthusiastically. Speaker asks: "if you only get it once a year, why are you so excited?" Audience member answers: "today's the day!" Totally a silly joke, but the fact that it was told to me in a grocery store by a 96 year old woman was hysterical.

The Wielding Truth

(11,415 posts)
57. Maybe she meant to say,"I only have one child so I am always looking to get bred". bread
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 08:33 AM
Dec 2017

That's kinda funny.

 

Thor_MN

(11,843 posts)
63. She might have been hitting on you... bred, not bread.
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 10:48 AM
Dec 2017

Of course, since I have no idea if you are male or female, if it was supposed to be a joke or a pick up line.

MineralMan

(146,329 posts)
67. Breed, Bred, play on words.
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 12:41 PM
Dec 2017

But, it makes no sense grammatically. Word salad. Her thinking is somewhat off, I suspect.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
69. Racist joke aimed an brown and black people.
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 01:42 PM
Dec 2017

I would have told her that she is a racist who is a big part of the problem.

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