The joke I have a good carriwitchet, but it’s really obscure makes more sense if you know that a carriwitchet is an obscure term that means “a riddling question.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Carriwitchet”
Grant, I’m sure you saw this joke floating around Twitter where people were saying,
I had a joke about this, but blah, blah, blah.
Right.
Like, I had a joke about my quarantine body, but it didn’t work out.
Yeah.
My favorite, though, was one from Helen Kennedy, the journalist who said,
I have a good Kara Wichit, but it’s really obscure.
It’s very obscure.
I don’t get it.
It’s in the early 17th century.
It meant a pun, a quibble, a hoax in question, or a conundrum.
So it was this joke that was so much more brilliant when you know the word.
Nailed me.
She got it.
Got me right in the back of the head with that one.
That’s good.
Thanks, Helen.
That’s wonderful.
