Here are a couple of jokes that took me over 20 years to finally get the punch line.<\/p>\n

Joke #1:<\/b> In the 1936 Three Stooges classic film Disorder in the Court<\/a>, through a comedy of errors (which pretty much describes every situation the Stooges ever found themselves in) a man’s toupee ends up attached to Larry’s violin bow (at the 8:30 mark). After Larry mistakes the hair piece for a tarantula, Moe grabs the bailiff’s gun and shoots the toupee multiple times. When Larry picks the toupee up from the floor, Moe says, “Tarantula? I just shot five holes in a divot.” Larry is then smacked, for good measure.<\/p>\n

What I Missed:<\/b> A “divot” is the small piece of turf that gets scraped up while golfing.<\/p>\n

In My Defense:<\/b> Shortly before the above scene takes place, there is another scene in which Curly is advised to “drop the vernacular,” after letting loose a string of slang words that neither the judge nor the jurors can understand. As a kid, I assumed “divot” was slang for “toupee.”<\/p>\n

Joke #2:<\/b>Weird Al’s song “I Want a New Duck,” based on Huey Lewis’ “I Want a New Drug” (as was Ray Parker, Jr’s Ghostbusters<\/a>, apparently), is filled with dozens of duck-related jokes. (“I want a new duck \/ One that won’t steal my beer \/ One that won’t stick his bill in my mail \/ One that knows the duck stops here.”) What I missed was a sly play on words at the end of the second chorus: “One that won’t drive me crazy, waddling all around \/ One who’ll teach me how to swim and help me not to drown \/ And show me how to get down … How to get down baby.”<\/p>\n

What I Missed:<\/b> “Down” is a layer of feathers that comes from birds, often used in sleeping bags, coats and pillows.<\/p>\n

In My Defense:<\/b> “I Want a New Duck” was released on 1985’s Dare to be Stupid<\/i>. In the mid-80s, I frequented Yukon on Wheels, our local roller rink. Rick Dee’s Disco Duck<\/a> was in regular rotation back then (played when it was time to shoot the duck<\/a>). I always thought Al’s was jokingly relating to Dee’s classic song. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are a couple of jokes that took me over 20 years to finally get the punch line. Joke #1: In the 1936 Three Stooges classic film Disorder in the Court, through a comedy of errors (which pretty much describes every situation the Stooges ever found themselves in) a man’s toupee ends up attached to Larry’s violin bow (at the 8:30 mark). After Larry mistakes the hair piece for a tarantula, Moe grabs the bailiff’s gun and shoots the toupee multiple times. When Larry picks the toupee up from the floor, Moe says, “Tarantula? I just shot five holes in… (read more)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}