Tug@lemmy.world to Dad Jokes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoI thought the dryer was shrinking my clothes....message-squaremessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up177arrow-down125file-text
arrow-up152arrow-down1message-squareI thought the dryer was shrinking my clothes....Tug@lemmy.world to Dad Jokes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square16fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareTheMinions@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down3·9 months agoI should say, I understand the joke. But the language of saying “it was the refrigerator that made my clothes shrink” just isn’t very funny to me. Maybe it’s because a refrigerator can’t actually do anything other than chill stuff, where as a dryer can shrink and dry clothes.
minus-squareVee4@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·9 months agoI could see Norm making a joke similar to this, but Id imagine he’d add onto the end by saying something after a pause, when the audience is visibly confused, like “Because I was getting fat. I was eating too much.”
minus-squareAPassenger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 months agoAgree. It’s too many “hops” for most people and the confusion:laughter ratio gets thrown off. It’s not delighted surprise, it’s… “wut?? Oh.”
I should say, I understand the joke.
But the language of saying “it was the refrigerator that made my clothes shrink” just isn’t very funny to me.
Maybe it’s because a refrigerator can’t actually do anything other than chill stuff, where as a dryer can shrink and dry clothes.
I could see Norm making a joke similar to this, but Id imagine he’d add onto the end by saying something after a pause, when the audience is visibly confused, like “Because I was getting fat. I was eating too much.”
Agree. It’s too many “hops” for most people and the confusion:laughter ratio gets thrown off. It’s not delighted surprise, it’s… “wut?? Oh.”