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Hi Frank,
Good to have you on the forum.
I'd say there is certain element of irony in this joke, can you see it?
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| Tue May 06, 2008 11:49 am How did you manage to get an 18-year-old girl to marry you, when you're 75? |
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Yes, I agree. It is irony.
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| Wed May 07, 2008 16:14 pm How did you manage to get an 18-year-old girl to marry you, when you're 75? |
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| Frank wrote: | I have read a joke recently, but I don't see any thing interesting in it, can you see it?
A: How did you manage to get an 18-year-old girl to marry you, when you're 75?
B: I told her I was 99. |
Well, for one thing, he looks about 25 years younger!  |
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| Thu May 08, 2008 8:01 am How did you manage to get an 18-year-old girl to marry you, when you're 75? |
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| I think so. It's hard to believe. We've got to do a survey and ask all the 18-year-old girls if they can fall in love with very eldery people... |
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| Thu May 08, 2008 11:59 am How did you manage to get an 18-year-old girl to marry you, when you're 75? |
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Hence the irony in the joke...
People in different countries have different approaches to irony. In Germany, for example, it doesn't seem as endemic as in Ireland.
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| Thu May 08, 2008 14:29 pm How did you manage to get an 18-year-old girl to marry you, when you're 75? |
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| Frank wrote: | I have read a joke recently, but I don't see any thing interesting in it, can you see it?
A: How did you manage to get an 18-year-old girl to marry you, when you're 75?
B: I told her I was 99. |
If the man's rich, and he's only 75, the girl might have to endure marriage to him for a long time before she gets his money. If she only cares about the money, she'd be more likely to marry a 99-year-old, because, as we say in English, he has one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. |
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| Thu May 08, 2008 14:42 pm How did you manage to get an 18-year-old girl to marry you, when you're 75? |
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| Not sure about 99 year old men... but there are a number of girls that at least for a short period are attracted to much older men, a fit and charming 60 year old might seem the world seem a magical place |
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| Sat May 10, 2008 8:39 am How did you manage to get an 18-year-old girl to marry you, when you're 75? |
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| Jamie (K) wrote: | | Frank wrote: | I have read a joke recently, but I don't see any thing interesting in it, can you see it?
A: How did you manage to get an 18-year-old girl to marry you, when you're 75?
B: I told her I was 99. |
If the man's rich, and he's only 75, the girl might have to endure marriage to him for a long time before she gets his money. If she only cares about the money, she'd be more likely to marry a 99-year-old, because, as we say in English, he has one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. |
hehe i agree with you in this way. There is just olny way that the man has money. The 18-year-old would marry him and wait until he dies and get his legacy. haha anyway this is a joke  |
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| Sun May 11, 2008 4:42 am How did you manage to get an 18-year-old girl to marry you, when you're 75? |
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| Well, he wouldn't be so 'smart' if he looked 75 and told the girl he's 40. |
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