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undyingkingDoes anyone know if there's a name for jokes that are roughly of the form "I thought [X] was a [Y] until I discovered [Z]"?
The humour normally turns on X having two homophonous interpretations -- either the first is innocent and the second is innuendish (in which case Z was traditionally "Smirnoff"), or there's an ironic contrast between the two meanings, or else the homophony is just wackily inventive... there are probably other sub-forms too.
Anyone got any good examples?
(Edited to correct spelling of homophonous!)
The humour normally turns on X having two homophonous interpretations -- either the first is innocent and the second is innuendish (in which case Z was traditionally "Smirnoff"), or there's an ironic contrast between the two meanings, or else the homophony is just wackily inventive... there are probably other sub-forms too.
Anyone got any good examples?
(Edited to correct spelling of homophonous!)
