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HSS Posted 20 years ago
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Sawdust Joke
Please forgive me for asking a query regarding a thing like this, but what is a sawdust joke? This is from Seinfeld's opening monologue:
Does it seem to you that the ventriloquist dummy has a very active sexual social life? he's always talking about dates and women that he knows and bringing them back to the suitcase at night, there's always a sawdust joke in there somewhere you know, kinky things cuz he's made out of wood an' he can spin his head around, we're somehow expected to believe because the face is soo animated that they think we aren't noticing that the feet are just swinging there, dummy feet never look right do they? they're just kinda dangling there, always kinda askew you know? you always see just little ankle, those thin fabric ankles that they have you know. Ya think 'I don't think this thing is real.'
Hiro
Does it seem to you that the ventriloquist dummy has a very active sexual social life? he's always talking about dates and women that he knows and bringing them back to the suitcase at night, there's always a sawdust joke in there somewhere you know, kinky things cuz he's made out of wood an' he can spin his head around, we're somehow expected to believe because the face is soo animated that they think we aren't noticing that the feet are just swinging there, dummy feet never look right do they? they're just kinda dangling there, always kinda askew you know? you always see just little ankle, those thin fabric ankles that they have you know. Ya think 'I don't think this thing is real.'
Hiro
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Hi Hiro, what is a sawdust joke? There's no such thing, no such type of humour. The humour in Seinfeld's remark lies in suggesting that a ventriloquist's wooden dummy would want to tell a lot of jokes about sawdust.
- Hi Hiro, what is a sawdust joke?
- There's no such thing, no such type of humour.
- The humour in Seinfeld's remark lies in suggesting that a ventriloquist's wooden dummy would want to tell a lot of jokes about sawdust.
- I tell my class that when you learn a language, you learn the humour last.
- Some of it can be very difficult to understand, for a whole variety of reasons.
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Hi Hiro,
what is a sawdust joke? There's no such thing, no such type of humour.
The humour in Seinfeld's remark lies in suggesting that a ventriloquist's wooden dummy would want to tell a lot of jokes about sawdust.
I tell my class that when you learn a language, you learn the humour last. Some of it can be very difficult to understa
what is a sawdust joke? There's no such thing, no such type of humour.
The humour in Seinfeld's remark lies in suggesting that a ventriloquist's wooden dummy would want to tell a lot of jokes about sawdust.
I tell my class that when you learn a language, you learn the humour last. Some of it can be very difficult to understa
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When you saw a piece of wood, it leaves sawdust on the floor.
The ventriloquist's dummy is made out of wood.
If you are making jokes about a ventriloquist's dummy, the word sawdustwill probably be used somewhere within one of the jokes. You need to use your imagination for the rest of this: If a male dummy brings a woman "back to his suitcase" (to his 'home') at night
The ventriloquist's dummy is made out of wood.
If you are making jokes about a ventriloquist's dummy, the word sawdustwill probably be used somewhere within one of the jokes. You need to use your imagination for the rest of this: If a male dummy brings a woman "back to his suitcase" (to his 'home') at night
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Thanks, Clive. Thanks, CJ.
Thought it was just about what happens between man and woman. I watched most of the episodes on their first run in Southern Cal, but somehow I missed this episode. On the Sapporo business trip that I took a few days ago, I brought along Jerry's book that had been put aside, and read it airborne. Actually hearing a story and reading it are totally different. I wa
Thought it was just about what happens between man and woman. I watched most of the episodes on their first run in Southern Cal, but somehow I missed this episode. On the Sapporo business trip that I took a few days ago, I brought along Jerry's book that had been put aside, and read it airborne. Actually hearing a story and reading it are totally different. I wa
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