The floating man
Posted by Rlawya24@reddit | Jokes | View on Reddit | 14 comments
A man walks into a bar on the top floor of a skyscraper and orders a cold beer.
As he’s sipping it, he suddenly watches the guy next to him stroll over to the window… and jump right out!
“Good grief! Did you see that!? That man just jumped out the window!”
The bartender doesn’t even blink.
Shaken, the man takes another sip.
A minute later, the same guy walks back in, sits down, orders another drink, finishes it, and jumps out the window again.
The man shouts, “Are you kidding me!? He did it again!”
Still, the bartender says nothing.
The guy comes back into the bar and orders another drink.
Finally, the man asks, “How on earth are you surviving those jumps?”
The guy grins and says, “Oh, it’s this special drink.
If you finish it fast enough, you can float.”
Excited, the man orders the same “floatie” drink, chugs it, runs to the window, jumps out… and SPLAT—straight onto the sidewalk.
The bartender sighs and says:
“Superman… you’re a real jerk when you’ve been drinking.”
Electrical_Tomato_73@reddit
The standard version is, "Oh, you know this pattern of skyscrapers causes a wind tunnel effect that makes the wind push up from the ground at exactly this point. If you jump from this window, the wind will push you right back up again."
Not believable, but a bit better than magic floatie drinks.
Of course, both are more believable than Superman.
DotBeech@reddit
But a drunk Superman killing people is much funnier.
Electrical_Tomato_73@reddit
The drunk superman is in ths original. The magic floater drink is not
TheScienceWeenie@reddit
The magic drink is worse because it makes the bartender complicit in the deception, but then he admonishes Superman, which doesn’t work. The original is better because the bartender is just an observer until the punchline.
TurbulentWeb1941@reddit
With all this stuff about magic floaty drinks, has anybody mentioned Red Bull yet? 🪽
checker280@reddit
My two favorite Superman strips are:
Lois is walking by an open window. She trips and falls out. Clark sees this and thinks “I don’t have time to change into Superman” and jumps out the window.
After he catches her she declares “AHA! I knew it! You were Superman all a long!”
Next panel has Perry walking into the newsroom with Clark working at his desk. “Where’s Lois?” Perry asks.
“Lois? Oh she fell out the window.”
The other one has Lois playing a prank on Clark and laughing at her own joke.
Clark says “Oh Lois, you are a great Kidder… or is that the other way around?”
DugganSC@reddit
I'll admit that I don't get the second one.
checker280@reddit
Margot Kidder played Lois Lane in the Chris Reeves Superman
Complex_Ad_7685@reddit
I heard it as ‘You know Gabriel, for an archangel you can be a bit of a bastard sometimes’
vonnostrum2022@reddit
This joke was popular among baby boomers back in the 50/60s
KingNosmo@reddit
The better punch line is “Superman… you’re a real jerk when you’ve been drinking.”
wrenhunter@reddit
The only thing worse than a repost is “I know this is a repost, but I made a change to improve it" and ruining the joke.
neuquino@reddit
This bartender is being a dick also, refuses to even acknowledge the dude commenting…which ends up leading to his death.
DotBeech@reddit
But a drunk Superman killing people is funnier.