Farmer
A man is driving down a country road, when he spots a farmer standing in the middle of a huge field of wheat.
He pulls the car over to the side of the road and notices that the farmer is just standing there, doing nothing, looking at nothing.
The man gets out of the car, walks all the way out to the farmer and asks him, "Ah excuse me mister, but what are you doing?
"The farmer replies, "I'm trying to win a Nobel Prize.
"How?" asks the man, puzzled.
"Well, I heard they give the Nobel Prize . . . to people who are out standing in their field."
It's funny, to use words with a different meaning it's a way of doing jokes, but also of producing errors and misunderstandings
ReplyDeleteI hadn't thought about what you say about misunderstandings. Usually the context helps, doesn't it?
DeleteYes it does, but not always
DeleteI guess you're right...
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ReplyDeleteIt's like what children do. They take things literally until they develop their abstract thinking to understand sarcasm, irony, or metaphor. I really like these kind of jokes.
ReplyDeleteNot only children, I think. My mum is a very intelligent woman, but she used to find it difficult to understand jokes.
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