{"id":241,"date":"2006-12-19T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-19T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=241"},"modified":"2006-12-19T14:15:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-19T13:15:00","slug":"broken-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/broken-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken joke"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m just back from the Chrismas lunch in the canteen. In my cracker I found half a joke – the other half had mysteriously vanished. Here’s what I read:<\/p>\n

…at’s yellow and stays
…in the fridge?
…stard.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What’s the joke? My first idea was the following:<\/p>\n

What’s yellow and stays
fresh in the fridge?
Custard.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But somehow it doesn’t seem very funny. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

People suggested various kinds of custard to make it funny, but it didn’t really work. An alternative would be this:<\/p>\n

What’s yellow and stays
within the fridge?
A bastard.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That doesn’t make you laugh either, does it?<\/p>\n

Or what about an avian alternative:<\/p>\n

What’s yellow and stays
calm in the fridge?
A bustard.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think this is more absurd than funny… \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

I can see you’re all getting very frustrated by now, but relax! A Google search finally gave me the answer:<\/p>\n

What’s yellow and stays
hot in the fridge?
Mustard.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m just back from the Chrismas lunch in the canteen. In my cracker I found half a joke – the other half had mysteriously vanished. Here’s what I read: …at’s yellow and stays…in the fridge?…stard. What’s the joke? My first idea was the following: What’s yellow and staysfresh in the fridge?Custard. But somehow it doesn’t seem very funny. \ud83d\ude41 People suggested various kinds of custard to make it funny, but it didn’t really work. An alternative would be this: What’s yellow and stayswithin the fridge?A bastard. That […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,105,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-featured","category-humour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}