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[–] smeg@feddit.uk 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Clever, I like it when you have to work a little for the punchline

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Davel23@fedia.io 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What do ghosts say? And what do owls say?

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 11 points 1 week ago

Bleugh-twit, of course!

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 10 points 1 week ago

Oh, you have to concatenate! In my defense, in my mother tongue a cry is “bwaaaa”.

[–] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago

Click here if you don't understand the punchline"Boo-hoo."

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It took an embarrassingly long time for me to get this.....

[–] essteeyou@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Username checks out, but not really because it took me a long time too. Oh wait...

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's hard to find the balance between letting the joke breathe versus making it too obvious. I'm not sure I hit that balance this time, but it seemed less funny any other way I could think to say it.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 4 points 1 week ago

Nah this was 100% on me being an idiot, it's a good joke, I'm just a dumbass.

[–] pageflight@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Knock knock. Who's there? Boo! ...