King, queen, fool are three medieval ranks; king, queen, full are three bed ranks. I think the two groups of three make the pun worthwhile even if ‘fool’ doesn’t fit in too well. Pity he couldn’t fit (k)night in.
Add a couple of knights leaning against a wall. Otherwise the same. Speech balloon says “I wouldn’t want you to make a rash decision. Why not take a knight to sleep on it?”
This was like a delayed chile pepper reaction. I first thought “fool, bleh, ok”, then a few extra neurons kicked and and I got the ‘fool/full’ connection and smiled. Well done.
According to comedian Steven Wright’s “I Have A Pony” album: “My girlfriend has a queen size bed and I have a court jester size bed. It’s red and green and it has bells on it. The ends curl up.”
There doesn’t need to be a jack bed size equivalent — the sudden lurch from, a, b, or nothing (jack) is a sudden unexpected twist, and then you can make the connection that this unexpected direction is in fact due if you are listing the the face cards of a deck (king, queen, jack). This can even be argued to be more funny because it is more unexpected than just trying to match bed sizes to cards based on puns — puns cause groans, not the laughs; well handled unexpectedness causes laughs.
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King, queen, fool are three medieval ranks; king, queen, full are three bed ranks. I think the two groups of three make the pun worthwhile even if ‘fool’ doesn’t fit in too well. Pity he couldn’t fit (k)night in.
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Ahhhh. Fool/full. Thanks, Treesong.
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Add a couple of knights leaning against a wall. Otherwise the same. Speech balloon says “I wouldn’t want you to make a rash decision. Why not take a knight to sleep on it?”
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This was like a delayed chile pepper reaction. I first thought “fool, bleh, ok”, then a few extra neurons kicked and and I got the ‘fool/full’ connection and smiled. Well done.
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According to comedian Steven Wright’s “I Have A Pony” album: “My girlfriend has a queen size bed and I have a court jester size bed. It’s red and green and it has bells on it. The ends curl up.”
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Many a castle maiden would curl up for siesta with a book. Some would just curl up with a page.
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No one wants to settle for a serf-sized bed.
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Treesong – but a fool would be a single or a cot not a full size, I would think.
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“No one wants to settle for a serf-sized bed.”
And for just the geezers:
You also wouldn’t a similar-sized musical instrument: a serf-sized sax.
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It might have been funnier if it were king, queen, or jack.
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No, the fool/full part makes it a better. There’s no “jack” sized bed or anything close to it.
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Bob Peters: ‘No one wants to settle for a serf-sized bed.’
Make your own punchline kit:
Something something ‘no padding for lowly churls’ something something ‘so we call it a serf board’, something.”
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There doesn’t need to be a jack bed size equivalent — the sudden lurch from, a, b, or nothing (jack) is a sudden unexpected twist, and then you can make the connection that this unexpected direction is in fact due if you are listing the the face cards of a deck (king, queen, jack). This can even be argued to be more funny because it is more unexpected than just trying to match bed sizes to cards based on puns — puns cause groans, not the laughs; well handled unexpectedness causes laughs.
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I took a safari to Serf City and all the inns had serf size beds. On the upside, there were two girls for every boy.
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