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Just swim across--the crocodiles are still at the meeting.

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[-] SecretSauces@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago

I'm gonna need a list of all these jokes to keep track of continuity

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 4 hours ago

Is that why the last few haven't made any sense to me? I'm missing the back story?

[-] Maven@lemmy.zip 1 points 13 hours ago

Looking at OPs post history... They missed one actually

[-] owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Wait... what's the missing one?

[-] Maven@lemmy.zip 4 points 13 hours ago

I always heard it starting with:

"You have 300 bricks and you throw one as far as you can, how many do you have left?

299"

The elephant to the river is the same but this joke is told about someone else crossing the river instead. Finally it ends with:

"But... They still don't make it across, why?

Because you threw a brick at them!"

[-] Susaga@sh.itjust.works 4 points 12 hours ago

The brick joke is an absolute classic. The only tragedy is that it's hard to set up without other people coming in with the payoff before you can.

[-] owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Haven't heard that one before. Brilliant.

[-] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk -1 points 10 hours ago

Still karma whoring then!

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

🤔 Me wondering how the rubber band will come into play in a day or two.

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago
[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 4 points 10 hours ago
[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

It's saying that the river only has a rubber band, rather than the person crossing the river. The crocodiles, which we assume are normally present based on the apparent name of said river, are (for some reason) in a meeting, and thus not currently present. Therefore, as the punchline says, you can simply swim across, nothing to worry about (the river current isn't very strong I guess).

[-] owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

It's actually based on a string of jokes I posted in this community. But that's a fun interpretation! I just added the rubber band as a red herring.

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