Do you get THIS joke?

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It took me ~0,7 sec to figure it out. Not extremly funny, but a little clever.

She asks for a double (= two in one glass) She got one (one). It's a joke about how you can get what you asked for but in an other sense it's wrong.
It usually results in a brief smile.

I got it, right away, and while I smiled it was more because it is amusing. Not hilarious... I'm not AS, but not sure I'm entirely NT either.

ok, now that I've thought about it, I agree that it's clever. it's still not funny though.

I get it now. It isn't particularly funny.

I'm disappointed cos I thought it meant something rude, LOL.

Edited, because I didn't know what the phrase 'give her one' in UK meant. Never mind, what I said previously!

Last edited by serenity on 11 Aug 2009, 2:04 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Hiya

Do any of you understand the British expression 'he gave her one'?

I tried the joke on my 2 friends...Flakey stared blankly and my Bi-polar Schizotypal-ish friend found it to be amusing and got it right away.

He called it a meta-joke (a play on metaphor)

I'm not familiar with it, but I think I can guess the meaning. In which case the joke must mean what I originally suspected it means...

This is one confusing joke!

if that plays into the meaning of the joke at all, then it makes absolutely no sense at all. there's nothing funny about a woman asking a bartender for something with two meanings and as a result getting shagged by him, and I can't see how there could be any implied connection between the two, unless you're saying "he gave her one" IS the double entendre?

now I'm just confused.

er, by any chance does 'gives her one' have a sexual meaning in the region where this joke was made? That's the only way I can think that this joke has a double-meaning... pretty poor to be honest.

I believe so, only because the last time I was in the UK, I very innocently used a variation of that phrase within earshot of a woman in a public place. She had her back turned to me at the time, and she assumed that I was speaking to her.

Whoa! I thought I'd caused a major international incident. She furiously whirled around and let me have it good.

Totally chagrined, I went back to where my friend was, who laughingly explained what I'd said. I immediately went back over to the woman and apologized profusely.

Her response? "Oh it's ok, lovey ... I should be so lucky." I wasn't 100% certain what she meant, but I wasn't about to push my luck any further, so I just smiled and left.

Don't worry bhetti, I AM TOO!! My NT friends have been rolling on the floor laughing ........but even when it was explained to me I lost it again! Uggg. But here in the UK, 'he gave her one' is exactly that, a double entendre for getting laid still don't find it funny though.....not spontaneously bursting into laughter funny, I am just happy I am not alone!

hm. if I were british I would probably curl my lip in disdain at such juvenile shenanigans.

so... the joke has additional layers of meaning, as well as being naughty, if you're british. still not funny though

This was totally non-funny to me. I didn't get it at first. I then read the explanation--double and one--and thought it clever, but still not funny. And of course, I understood double entendre.

I think it's kinda funny, but I'm not completely sure what the second meaning is supposed to be, or the first for that matter. That might be the point.

Wikipedia's example of a double entendre is when Hannibal Lecter says "I'm having an old friend for dinner."

when I was a 'tween, I heard this one:

there was a very charming snake, who woo'd and won a beautiful maiden and made her his wife. it wasn't long before he started staying out late, drinking and playing cards and running around with other women. when his wife found out, she got really angry and demanded to know how he could treat her like that. he replied, "look, you knew I was a snake when we got married".

I didn't get it, although I'd encountered the slang usage of snake. the whole double meaning + figurative imagery thing was too difficult to wrap my head around even after someone explained the joke. I simply wondered why a human would marry a snake.