Maybe they are putting a twist on the old joke. These guys are cheapskate so no matter what magnificent entry you may have they are going to claim that you are the fraud and a cheat. So you bring in a talking goose and instead of asking a question that verifies the goose talks, they purposefully ask a question that when the goose answers, they can claim it’s just honking.
It’d be better/funnier if they just did it straight. Have the woman entering give the question.
Or maybe the cartoonist just blew it.
Okay, it’s supposed to just be bad luck. The lady has a talking goose. The guy asks a question. By very bad luck he asks the one question that sounds like a goose honking. The lady judge simply assumes the goose can’t talk.
A variation on the talking dog joke… what’s the top part of a house called? Roof! Uh, yeah, that sounds like a regular dog! Let’s try a harder question… who’s the greatest baseball player ever? Ruth! Get out of here! Maybe I should have said (local player)
Presumably a reference to the talking dog gag: but in this case, the goose seems to have given the one possible correct answer.
“the goose seems to have given the one possible correct answer.”
Hmm.
Q:”What’s a 4-letter word for Egyptian symbol of life?”
A: “ankh”
A: “A, N, K, H”
A: “the answer is ‘ankh’ ”
A: “ankh. Final answer.”
That’s 4 of the one possible correct answers, without leaving English, since English is the only language I have. I can’t rule out that there are more correct answers if you use something else.
The goose might be a talking one (the answer to the question does sound like the cry of a regular goose), but the red-head judge is an ignoramus : to her, “ankh” is just the cry of a regular goose, not the answer to the question.
“So… why is it ‘wrong’?”
The right answer is “ankh”, but the lady heard “honk”.
I think this is just a riff on the old dog joke: “Talking dog, eh? How’s business been?” “Ruff!” “Seen any geese? Where are they?” “Ruff!”
(Lord F, it’s not a mask, just a heavily drawn set of specs.)
I promised (or threatened!) to respond to this with my “Four Tough quiz questions YOUR CAT can answer! ” They are in the same idea family as the dog joke, but the answers not explicitly shown. When I used to like putting supposed humorous bits as quotations after my email signatures, this was in the rotation.
Four Tough quiz questions YOUR CAT can answer!
1. Who was the leader of China throughout the tumultuous middle years of the Twentieth Century?
2. Who was the innovative German silent film director responsible for such works as “Nosferatu” and “Sunrise”?
3. What was the name given to the Kikuyu insurrectionists in Kenya in the 1950s?
4. Who was the pioneering American broadcast journalist who sent radio dispatches from wartime England and in the television era challenged Senator McCarthy?
“Four Tough quiz questions YOUR CAT can answer! ”
But probably won’t.
My cat says the answer is “murph?”
James, somehow your cats were answering the extra-credit question I left off the above listing. It requires identifying “Murph the Surf” from a brief mention of his criminal career. But I found with my cats that the fill-in-the-blank completion format was too tough for them.
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Why is the lady wearing a mask?
Maybe they are putting a twist on the old joke. These guys are cheapskate so no matter what magnificent entry you may have they are going to claim that you are the fraud and a cheat. So you bring in a talking goose and instead of asking a question that verifies the goose talks, they purposefully ask a question that when the goose answers, they can claim it’s just honking.
It’d be better/funnier if they just did it straight. Have the woman entering give the question.
Or maybe the cartoonist just blew it.
Okay, it’s supposed to just be bad luck. The lady has a talking goose. The guy asks a question. By very bad luck he asks the one question that sounds like a goose honking. The lady judge simply assumes the goose can’t talk.
A variation on the talking dog joke… what’s the top part of a house called? Roof! Uh, yeah, that sounds like a regular dog! Let’s try a harder question… who’s the greatest baseball player ever? Ruth! Get out of here! Maybe I should have said (local player)
Presumably a reference to the talking dog gag: but in this case, the goose seems to have given the one possible correct answer.
“the goose seems to have given the one possible correct answer.”
Hmm.
Q:”What’s a 4-letter word for Egyptian symbol of life?”
A: “ankh”
A: “A, N, K, H”
A: “the answer is ‘ankh’ ”
A: “ankh. Final answer.”
That’s 4 of the one possible correct answers, without leaving English, since English is the only language I have. I can’t rule out that there are more correct answers if you use something else.
The goose might be a talking one (the answer to the question does sound like the cry of a regular goose), but the red-head judge is an ignoramus : to her, “ankh” is just the cry of a regular goose, not the answer to the question.
“So… why is it ‘wrong’?”
The right answer is “ankh”, but the lady heard “honk”.
I think this is just a riff on the old dog joke: “Talking dog, eh? How’s business been?” “Ruff!” “Seen any geese? Where are they?” “Ruff!”
(Lord F, it’s not a mask, just a heavily drawn set of specs.)
I promised (or threatened!) to respond to this with my “Four Tough quiz questions YOUR CAT can answer! ” They are in the same idea family as the dog joke, but the answers not explicitly shown. When I used to like putting supposed humorous bits as quotations after my email signatures, this was in the rotation.
“Four Tough quiz questions YOUR CAT can answer! ”
But probably won’t.
My cat says the answer is “murph?”
James, somehow your cats were answering the extra-credit question I left off the above listing. It requires identifying “Murph the Surf” from a brief mention of his criminal career. But I found with my cats that the fill-in-the-blank completion format was too tough for them.
My question is why the lady is saying “LOL” ? :-)
“My question is why the lady is saying ‘LOL’ ?”
sarcasm.