Nerd Joke
A tourist seeking a fish restaurant in Boston climbs in a taxicab and says to the cabbie, "Say, do you know where I can get scrod?"
Cabbie replies admiringly: "Mister, I've been asked that a thousand times, but never before in the pluperfect subjunctive."
(If you get this, you're unfortunately riding my wavelength. Attribution in the comments...)
Cabbie replies admiringly: "Mister, I've been asked that a thousand times, but never before in the pluperfect subjunctive."
(If you get this, you're unfortunately riding my wavelength. Attribution in the comments...)
posted by Jason at 11:00 PM
1 Comments:
As told by William Safire in How Not To Write: The Essential Misrules of Grammar, p. 120.
In case you didn't get the joke, you have to understand the double entendre on "scrod", being both a kind of fish and an improperly-formed verb tense of the sexually euphemistic infinitive "to screw". If that doesn't help, simply replace "scrod" with the past tense, "screwed", and you might get it.
If you still don't get it, thank God.
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