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13-10-2020, 23:34
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#13186
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Re: The New Joke Thread
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Originally Posted by StuM
WHy do people say "tuna fish" when they don't say "chicken bird" or "lamb mammal"?
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I thought it was called Chicken of the Sea
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14-10-2020, 00:41
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#13187
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Re: The New Joke Thread
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Originally Posted by Pelagic
I thought it was called Chicken of the Sea
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Except when it's
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14-10-2020, 02:41
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#13188
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Re: The New Joke Thread
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Gord May
"If you didn't have the time or money to do it right in the first place, when will you get the time/$ to fix it?"
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14-10-2020, 06:41
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#13189
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Re: The New Joke Thread
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Originally Posted by ArmyDaveNY
If I told you that I found the photo while rifling through some old photos, would that help? If I actually used that line, would you recoil in horror at the terrible joke?
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No, but I might be bored.
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14-10-2020, 07:48
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#13190
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Re: The New Joke Thread
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Originally Posted by fgd3
So what's the minimum size boat you need to participate in the threads about carrying guns aboard? And I guess single handers are excluded regardless of boat size.
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It's not about the boat, it's all about the size of your weapon.
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14-10-2020, 07:50
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#13191
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Re: The New Joke Thread
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Originally Posted by StuM
WHy do people say "tuna fish" when they don't say "chicken bird" or "lamb mammal"?
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To differentiate between the fish and tuna piano.
REO Speedwagon wrote a song about that.
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14-10-2020, 07:55
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#13192
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Re: The New Joke Thread
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Originally Posted by StuM
WHy do people say "tuna fish" when they don't say "chicken bird" or "lamb mammal"?
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or "beef cow", or "pork pig" . . . .
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14-10-2020, 08:49
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Re: The New Joke Thread
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14-10-2020, 08:59
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Re: The New Joke Thread
Those of you who are geographically challenged, can you see this ok?
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14-10-2020, 09:02
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#13195
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Re: The New Joke Thread
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Originally Posted by StuM
WHy do people say "tuna fish" when they don't say "chicken bird" or "lamb mammal"?
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Perhaps a confused manifestation of the meat paradox, where to avoid the cognitive dissonance of eating animals people re-name animal meat something different than the common name for the animal.
"replacing "beef/pork" with "cow/pig" in a restaurant menu increased empathy and disgust, which both equally reduced willingness to eat meat and increased willingness to choose an alternative vegetarian dish"
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27405101/
https://fewd.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/...ral_status.pdf
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Trying to keep this humorous:
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14-10-2020, 09:10
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Re: The New Joke Thread
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Originally Posted by socaldmax
Those of you who are geographically challenged, can you se this ok?

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Yep - it's just fine! Thanks
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14-10-2020, 09:20
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#13197
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Re: The New Joke Thread
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Originally Posted by socaldmax
Those of you who are geographically challenged, can you see this ok?

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Sorry NO, iPad in southern France.
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14-10-2020, 09:36
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#13198
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Re: The New Joke Thread
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Originally Posted by Singularity
Perhaps a confused manifestation of the meat paradox, where to avoid the cognitive dissonance of eating animals people re-name animal meat something different than the common name for the animal.
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Psychobabble.
The cow/beef, sheep/mutton, pig/pork dichotomy is an English language thing. It dates from the Norman conquest. Nothing to do with any paradox or aversion. If it were a real paradox, it would manifest itself in other languages and for other meat animals in English.
The serfs who raised the animals called them by their Anglo-Saxon names: beef/sheep/pig/deer
The nobles who actually ate them regularly used their french names for the animals: cow=boef, sheep = mouton, pig = porc, deer = venesoun
Hence the meat became known by the french animal names boef -> beef, mouton -> mutton. porc -> pork, venesoun -> venison
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14-10-2020, 09:37
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Re: The New Joke Thread
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Originally Posted by hoolie
Yep - it's just fine! Thanks
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Are you in UK or France?
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14-10-2020, 10:06
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Re: The New Joke Thread
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Originally Posted by StuM
Psychobabble.
The cow/beef, sheep/mutton, pig/pork dichotomy is an English language thing. It dates from the Norman conquest. Nothing to do with any paradox or aversion. If it were a real paradox, it would manifest itself in other languages and for other meat animals in English.
The serfs who raised the animals called them by their Anglo-Saxon names: beef/sheep/pig/deer
The nobles who actually ate them regularly used their french names for the animals: cow=boef, sheep = mouton, pig = porc, deer = venesoun
Hence the meat became known by the french animal names boef -> beef, mouton -> mutton. porc -> pork, venesoun -> venison
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Wow!
That was HILARIOUS!!
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