An old but still entertaining Mickey Mouse joke, told to me by an acquaintance last night:
The judge says to Mickey, “I can’t grant you a divorce because you think Minnie is crazy.”
“I didn’t say she was crazy,” says Mickey, “I said she was fucking Goofy!”
Two interlocked ambiguities here: the expressive adverb fucking ‘exceedingly’ vs. the literal verb fucking ‘having sexual intercourse with’, and the adjective goofy ‘foolish’ vs. the proper name Goofy.
This is the judge version; there’s also a lawyer version:
Mickey’s laywer says, “Your honor, my client requests a divorce from his spouse Minnie on the grounds that she is insane.” And Mickey says, “You idiot, I didn’t say she was crazy, I said she was fucking Goofy!”
There are other less punchy versions out there.
(Interlocked ambiguities are a feature of many entertaining jokes and gags, like the “like my mother’s cooking” cartoon here.)
November 22, 2011 at 12:27 pm |
Brightened an otherwise gloomy day — thanks!
January 23, 2012 at 11:01 am |
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May 13, 2015 at 4:20 am |
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July 14, 2022 at 2:26 am |
Tangentially-related eggcorn:
Recently, I’ve seen people refer to “plutonic” relationships