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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStrangest '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.
appleannie1943
(1,303 posts)icymist
(15,888 posts)Makes me want to bang my head against the wall a while.
Mike Nelson
(9,966 posts)LuckyCharms
(17,455 posts)icymist
(15,888 posts)LuckyCharms
(17,455 posts)several hours later, I have no idea what I meant. It's like I just threw a bunch of random words together.
Ohiya
(2,239 posts)...the Smoker you get, the player you are!
radical noodle
(8,013 posts)Maybe she was off her meds.
icymist
(15,888 posts)unblock
(52,317 posts)Inside her head
LOL!
eppur_se_muova
(36,287 posts)delisen
(6,044 posts)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)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.
icymist
(15,888 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Sanity Claws
(21,852 posts)Bred and bread are homonyms.
Maybe she should have said bred instead of breed.
icymist
(15,888 posts)There are some days I wish I had stayed in bed.
LeftInTX
(25,543 posts)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)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)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.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Ohiya
(2,239 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Needs more of a buildup.
Ohiya
(2,239 posts)The bread aisle!
muriel_volestrangler
(101,361 posts)Not exactly a thigh-slapper, but it would make some sense.
janx
(24,128 posts)pun using the noun bread and the past participle of breed, but she was in some way impaired and could not pull it off.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,194 posts)My advice: Back away slowly, and don't make any sudden moves.
icymist
(15,888 posts)Vanished! Never saw her coming and don't know where she went.
spiderpig
(10,419 posts)Hell if I know what she meant. Was she from Cleveland? (My hometown, so cool off.)
icymist
(15,888 posts)I have met strange before. Never had it seek me out, though.
spiderpig
(10,419 posts)Do you remember Ghoulardi?
icymist
(15,888 posts)Central Ill-noise and then western Washingtoon.
spiderpig
(10,419 posts)Right down to the Brownies. Do you think in my lifetime???
icymist
(15,888 posts)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)Yes. Apparently plenty of ex NE Ohions here but Ive 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 theyd spent 60 hours building and hed 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)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)I sure remember her but dont 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.
spiderpig
(10,419 posts)Good old Channel 8 in Cleveland.
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)And rats on tv?!
captain queeg
(10,240 posts)But I wouldnt 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)Weird shit. What made me laugh is when you said you thought it was something racial
Like minorities breed like animals? Im black and have heard many racial jokes but dont see a connection.
icymist
(15,888 posts)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)They are already admitting their humor sucks.
icymist
(15,888 posts)Hell, there's some people who keep waiting at a stop sign for it to turn green.
Yupster
(14,308 posts)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.
C_U_L8R
(45,020 posts)Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)icymist
(15,888 posts)Could explain a lot.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)She told it a little wrong, but it's too damned funny. I'm going to have to remember that for work.
icymist
(15,888 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I was just laughing to be polite.
The woman is certifiable!
salin
(48,955 posts)betsuni
(25,610 posts)icymist
(15,888 posts)Like a gas cloud, only noisy.
Deb
(3,742 posts)Slang for cash. An insulting racist joke and your response was perfect, she publicly humiliated herself.
icymist
(15,888 posts)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)Not much of a joke, but I don't see how it applies to one race or another.
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herding cats
(19,567 posts)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)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)Please, don't think less of me for it! It was the visuals my mind conjured that did me in!
icymist
(15,888 posts)Adrahil
(13,340 posts)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.
icymist
(15,888 posts)The white privilege is showing.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)alphafemale
(18,497 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Nonhlanhla
(2,074 posts)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)That's kinda funny.
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,041 posts)Vinca
(50,303 posts)Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)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.
rock
(13,218 posts)Their "jokes" are NOT funny.
MineralMan
(146,329 posts)But, it makes no sense grammatically. Word salad. Her thinking is somewhat off, I suspect.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)I would have told her that she is a racist who is a big part of the problem.