So a farmer asks a friend to come over to his place to help him fix his generator.

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They work for a while, and two cows come walking through the pasture beside the barn. The friend looks over and says, "Wow. Those are some fine looking animals. Where do they sleep?"

And the farmer says, "The black one or the white one?"

And the friend says, "Uh, I dont know. The black one."

Farmer: "Oh, she sleeps in the barn."

Friend: "OK, where does the white one sleep?"

Farmer: "Oh, she sleeps in the barn too."

The friend looks confused and then says, "What do you feed them cows?"

Farmer: "The black one or the white one?"

Friend: "The white one."

Farmer: "Hay."

Friend: "And the black one?"

Farmer: "Hay."

Friend: "What are you talking about, Carl? Why do you keep asking me whether I'm talking about the white cow or the black cow??"

Farmer: "Oh. It's because I own the black cow."

Friend: "Who owns the white one?"

Farmer: "I do."

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Opinionsare@reddit

I lived next door to a small farm, the farmer had a few sheep in a pasture next to the house and cattle in the lower pasture, back about 150 feet from the road. I had a visitor from the city, and we were walking back from getting the mail at the end of the shared lane. You could see the sheep, but the cattle pasture was about six feet lower so they were hidden. The cattle heard is talking and started loudly mooing. The city boy looked at the sheep, while hearing the hidden cattle with total confusion.

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Fafnir13@reddit

Did my see-and-say lie to me???

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Expensive-Wedding-14@reddit

Way back in the day, I was driving in the country with my lady friend and her two teens in the back. Coming around a bend, I see a bull mounting a cow. My lady friend does also, but the teens are listening to the radio and are oblivious.

I kept my eyes on the road and my features impassive for another 30 seconds, which is what I perceive as the time it takes short-term sensory recall to overwrite.

I softly asked my friend, "Were they wrestling?" She cracked up. The kids were suddenly animated and wanted to know what we were talking about?

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Fafnir13@reddit

My grandparents had a small dairy farm I got to visit a couple times a year. This meant I got to hear what cows sound like when in heat and see them humping (as my uncle put it) each other. No bulls on the farm, just my uncle with a shoulder length glove and a pipet. I got to learn quite a lot about that at a young age.

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Outside-Dependent-90@reddit

🤣love this... most underrated comment here.

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dariznelli@reddit

Dead serious story. Driving through Michigan with a buddy and his girlfriend, who spent no time around farms growing up. We drove by a field of black sheep and she asked "why are those cows so small?"

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Mikesaidit36@reddit

He would’ve been MORE of a city boy if he heard the mooing and wasn’t confused and thought it was the sheep.

Motor_Growth_9036@reddit

Driving past a herd of cows I said to my companion there are 127 cows in that pasture. Impressed my companion said how do you know for certain how many cows are in that pasture? Oh that’s easy I replied. I counted all the legs and divided by four

Boot_Effective@reddit

This sub thrives on reposts, and I actually enjoy re-reading old jokes. But this is one of those jokes which I wish folks would stop reposting.

And don't ask me which one.

Prosaicpersonality@reddit

This joke feels like I'm talking to my ex.

ZenEngineer@reddit

The black one or the white one?

elmwoodblues@reddit

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 YES 13 14 15

Pause_Affectionate@reddit

? Can you explain what this means?

This idiot 20-character minimum

Frido1976@reddit

the 1 or the 2 or the 3 or the 4....?

The "yes". Can you explain that part?

Redeucer@reddit

Once again, the real joke is in the comments.

BoundlessFail@reddit

Which comment?

(Bloody 20 character rule)

AreYouAnOakMan@reddit

Or the government

characters

NSA_Chatbot@reddit

> which one, the black one or the white one?

JasperThorne@reddit

I don't understand the joke, can someone explain?

Srikandi715@reddit

It's a violation of Grice's maxim of quantity, which requires that a contribution in conversation be as informative as required. (That's philosopher Paul Grice.) The farmer consistently replies with less information than the questioner expects.

It's funny because people adhere to this maximum most of the time without thinking about it, so when you encounter a violation it's unexpected. Either that, or it ISN'T funny. Take your pick!

IonPurple@reddit

I pick the third option: a joke repeated several times in a row is sometimes funny. It's a common trope.

Don't overcomplicate things without due necessity.

GuestStarr@reddit

It's pretty much either self explaining or unexplainable.

You've been reading the wrong philosophers 😉

Snoo-20788@reddit

Let me give it a shot.

So clearly, the farmer has this weird quirk that the other guy notices, where he is asking a question back that's irrelevant because either way, he's going to answer the same regardless.

Like in any joke, the thing goes on, and when starts to be a pattern, the other guy is trying to elucidate the mystery of why the farmer responds this way. So he explicitly asks why the farmer asks questions that are irrelevant. He's hoping (as is the reader to this joke) that this is going to clarify why he's doing that. And of course, the final answer is as absurd as all the other ones.

I also still tell this joke

The white one. Why?

Oh. I was wondering why he took a nap.