I learned another joke from my son Hugh this morning, and it seems to me structurally similar to one of my favourite jokes. In this short post, I will give you two jokes to enjoy and then ask your help: why are they similar, and what is it about them that makes them different from other jokes?<\/p>\n
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Joke 1.<\/strong><\/p>\n Q. What’s brown and sticky?<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n A. A stick.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Joke 2.<\/strong><\/p>\n Q: What’s orange and sounds like a parrot?<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n A: A carrot.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Although the puns are simple, the actual working of these jokes rely on a surprising reframing of the terms within the question phrase; the work of the joke happens not in the punch line, but in the set-up. Are there more like this?s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I learned another joke from my son Hugh this morning, and it seems to me structurally similar to one of my favourite jokes. In this short post, I will give… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[78,93],"tags":[79,153,154],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-fieldwork","tag-humour","tag-jokes","tag-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2DSYH-aO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}