I am in shock.

[baratron]

Today I got a Christmas cracker which contained a stereotypical utterly appalling and unfunny Christmas cracker joke that I... hadn't.... heard... before?! How could such a thing be possible? I mean, I thought all the jokes in Christmas crackers had been recycled when I encountered them in 1985 (and noticed they were the same as the ones which I'd thought were vaguely funny in 1984), and as I've got older, the jokes have got older and older too. I didn't think there was any way a new joke could appear - but my God, this one's new to me at least!

So here it is:

Q. Why is a piano so hard to open?

A. All the keys are on the inside.

OK, that wasn't worth it, was it?

Comments

[pir.livejournal.com]

I've heard that one before...

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

Aren't the keys usually on the outside?

[inquis.livejournal.com]

no, there is usually a cover for them which is lockable.

[redbird]

For no good reason, I am reminded of the door of Lord Vetinari's dungeon, with lots and lots of very impressive locks and bolts. It took a subtle mind, or a careful eye, to notice what was unusual:

Almost all of them were on the inside, because the Patrician knew that there was a particular kind of revolutionary who would find it immensely satisfying to lock a tyrant in his own dungeons. "In here, the Patrician could hold off the world."

[hiddenpaw.livejournal.com]

They do actualy still have joke writers still writing jokes for these.

I can imagen them coming up with a joke and all cheering and passing round a celibratry bottle round the Joke Reaserch Centre and then having to check in the great libury of jokes to make sure it hasn't been done before, only to discover a similar joke was written in the early 19th centuary.

BTW, I don't know if I know the joke but I knew the answer befor I read it.

[mattp.livejournal.com]

That sort of thing is the perfect candidate for pisspoorhumour :-)