Cars have windows. Houses have windows. So it can’t be windows that makes the car go.
I swear I don’t understand, and he tried to explain it to me. He said it’s a double meaning with Windows the operating system but I just don’t don’t don’t get it.
Can anyone make this understandable to me? I may have screwed up the retelling, because honestly I have no idea what the hell’s going on with this joke.
This isn’t what your friend is going for, but I smirked every so slightly and this is how I interpret it:
I particularly like jokes that take something absurd and launder it through the structure of things that do make sense. Everything in your friend’s joke is factually true. It’s structured as logically consistent argument. And yet it is completely nonsensical. No one has ever thought that windows make something move. It invoked a slightly confused response in me, which is why I found it funny.
It’s not a great joke, but I might tell it to feel out someone’s sense of humor plus whether they pick up on that I’m doing so. I think the analogy to Windows makes it a weaker joke, though I would give that out as an explanation just to mess with them a little.
That DOES sound like him
If he’s someone that’s normally good at being funny - that is good at finding humorous observations and wording things that get people to laugh - then I’d say he’s messing with you.
I would mess with him right back by acting like I’m very seriously trying to understanding the joke and ask increasingly dumb questions until they realize that yes, I knew exactly what they were doing. Or a knowing smirk if that’s too much.
(Yes this comment is very revealing about my childhood)
Yeah, it made me think of my mother’s favourite joke, which is completely bizarre:
What’s the difference between a blackbird? Both legs are the same length, especially the left one.
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