Four guys are sitting at a table
Posted by External_Structure33@reddit | Jokes | View on Reddit | 32 comments
Four guys are sitting at a table in a restaurant. It’s a bit after the lunch hour, so it’s relatively empty. A well-dressed woman a couple of tables away is listening to their conversation.
She hears the first guy say, "I think it’s spelled exactly the way it sounds. So, W O O M. "
The woman is a bit surprised at this.
The second guy says, "No, there’s a B sound at the end. It’s W O O M B. "
The woman rolls her eyes.
The third guy says, "I think you’re both wrong. It’s V O O M B . "
The woman can hardly believe her ears.
The fourth guy says, "You’re all nuts. It’s W H O O M. "
The well-dressed woman can’t take it any longer. She marches over to them and says, "For your information, it’s womb. W. O. M. B. " And she returns to her table.
The guys look at each other, a little embarrassed and confused. After a few seconds, one of them asks in a low voice, “Do you think she could be right?"
"Nah," another guy replies. "Look at her. She’s probably never even heard an elephant fart before."
5av3d@reddit
Chicksplaining, man. How offensive!
unfvckingbelievable@reddit
I like this one, and I've never heard it before. Well done.
Proud_Ad9315@reddit
Thought I had it figured out and then nope.
Acrobatic_Matter_109@reddit
I've never heard an elephant fart before. It would be amazing if I did. It would blow me away.
Malvastor@reddit
But have you ever seen an elephant fly?
bdiscer@reddit
I have (un)fortunately been in the presence of a rhinoceros when it broke wind. While it didn't exactly blow me away, I still wish there was adequate atmospheric wind to blow it away.
Point is, I can't (and don't want to) imagine what an elephants would be like .
Malalang@reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/absoluteunit/s/xZZ6DoLxwn
WestHistorians@reddit
Not a native speaker, can someone explain this joke?
SittingInAnAirport@reddit
The woman overhearing the men thought they were trying to spell "womb", a female body part, but they were trying to figure out how to spell out how an elephant's fart sounds.
WestHistorians@reddit
oh okay, thanks for the explanation. But why would they be trying to spell that out? This seems like an anti-joke or something.
adriennelisa@reddit
Just for the stupidity / wasting time of it. It just a silly discussion people have when they don't want to discuss serious stuff during lunch, coffee, casual get-to-gether, etc.
OtterHostler@reddit
I was in the hospital where this happened - two Ghanian doctors were chatting in the corridor of the maternity ward, arguing whether it was spelled "woomb" or "woome". After the matron corrected them they turned to each other - "silly old bat - I'll bet she's never even heard a buffalo fart underwater."
Rumour6677@reddit
So wrong,yet so right.
SpecialistForward205@reddit
Now I have an earworm. Em eye, crooked letter, crooked letter eye, crooked letter crooked letter eye, humpback humpback eye a Mississippi, flowing down to New Orleans. Apologies to Phil Harris.
PensivePorcupine@reddit
Isaac Asimov 1971. Word for word.
External_Structure33@reddit (OP)
It could be — I heard this as a teenager in the early ‘70s, and I lived next to Isaac Asimov’s ex-mother in law.
justcrazytalk@reddit
Asimov’s Treasury of Humor.
loregorebore@reddit
The well dressed woman was on the bus the other day, increasingly flustered by the conversation of the 2 guys seated in the seat before hers.
“Yeah so Emma came first. Then I came. Then two asses came together. “
“No way!!!!”
“Trust. Then I came, two asses again then I came again!”
“Whoahhhhh”
“Yeah. Then guess what? Next was a couple pees. Then I came again!!”
The woman couldn’t take it anymore. She stood up in a huff to disembark, but before stepping off the bus she looked the two young guys sternly in the eye and said, “ Young men, that is not a conversation to have in public. Vulgarities belong in the bar!”
The two properly chastised young men look at each other confusedly. “Did we spell Mississippi wrong?”
Daniel_Meades@reddit
I think the joke starts with 2 italian guys on a bus talking to each other
Firm-Information3610@reddit
lol had me going for a second 😂 the woman really tried to give a lecture and walked straight into it anyway
tysnowboards@reddit
I can' t stop thinking about how serious they all sounded arguing about the spelling of that world. The punchline is chef' s kiss.
kingkonggodzilla2021@reddit
The setup was doing so much work I laughed before the punchline landed. That is the mark of a genuinely well-built joke.
External_Structure33@reddit (OP)
Thank you !!
Acrobatic_Matter_109@reddit
I heard that ketamine-loving entrepreneurial elephant tell the joke, Elon Tusk.
Waste-Job-3307@reddit
Well THAT was unexpected. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Here's my upvote.
BuckWoody1206@reddit
😂😂😂😂😂😂
CoolBev@reddit
I heard this in high school. I was going over it in my head in Chem class, and couldn’t stop laughing. I laughed so hard I got called out by the teacher. Thankfully, he didn’t ask me to tell the class what was so funny.
hikergent@reddit
on the floor
FAX415saki@reddit
That's good on so many levels.
vcj0508@reddit
Perfect example of the stark differences between the male and female brains -lol!
Facts_pls@reddit
Is it though?
I thought the stereotype was that men think they know everything on limited information. Here the woman does it. Do now I don't know what to believe.
current_thread@reddit
DAE gender?! 😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣 You couldn't make the same joke today! Lol