If you have seven oranges in one hand and six in the other, what have you got? “Really big hands”–and a really bad joke. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Big Hands, Bad Joke”
You’re listening to A Way with Words, the show about language and how we use it.
I’m Grant Barrett.
And I’m Martha Barnette.
And Grant, today we’re going to start with a math question.
Can I pass that on to someone else?
No, no, no, no.
All right.
No, humor me here, okay?
Yes, please.
Math question.
I have seven oranges in one hand and six oranges in another hand.
What do I have?
Thirteen oranges.
I have really big hands.
Yes.
Or really little oranges.
Your hands are kind of manly.
Do you shave the backs?
Thank you.
Thank you.
Vanessa Redgrave and I, we have these big paws.
That’s a really terrible joke, Martha.
I thought you would like it.
It is a good one.
No, it’s a good terrible, right?
That’s right.
That’s right.
Well, I thought you would enjoy that.
You know, good terrible jokes have a place in English, and they have a place in the language that we speak, right?
They do, and they have a place right at the beginning of our show.
And they have a place in our email box, words@waywordradio.org.
Send us your best, worst, good jokes.
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