What's red and bad for your teeth?

[William Christopher]

A brick.

 

[William Christopher]

A linguistics professor is giving a lecture and after a long-winded explanation about the concept of negatives begins his conclusion and says, "So, as we can see, in some languages a double negative is a positive, and in other languages a double negative is still a negative, but in no language is a double positive a negative."

A voice from the back of the classroom says, "Yeah, right."

 

[CallingOnHim]

LOl. Clever.

Sarcasm eludes the linguistics prof.

 

[B-A-C]

Reminds me of the Daniel Webster joke...
An English teacher told him "sugar" was the word in the English language where su sounded like sh.
According to the joke... Daniel Webster asked him.. "are you sure".

 

[meldieching]

LOL. Clever answer, yes! I remembered this joke before which was given on a convention that I attend. Oh! I suddenly missed it! Full of jokes and laughters!

 

[rstrats]

B-A-C,
re: "Reminds me of the Daniel Webster joke...:
An English teacher told him 'sugar' was the word in the English language where su sounded like sh.
According to the joke... Daniel Webster asked him.. 'are you sure'."

I don't see the joke.

 

[Jesus_is_LORD]

B-A-C,
re: "Reminds me of the Daniel Webster joke...:
An English teacher told him 'sugar' was the word in the English language where su sounded like sh.
According to the joke... Daniel Webster asked him.. 'are you sure'."

I don't see the joke.

I Don't see it either.

 

[Brad Huber]

I am Shure you must see that its a "two" pronged joke.

 

[Jesus_is_LORD]

I am Shure you must see that its a "two" pronged joke.

But "shure" isn't a word.

Oh, I guess he is saying doubt and having the other guy consider the possibiliy of that "sure" could be spelled "shure".

 

[Brad Huber]

But "shure" isn't a word.

Oh, I guess he is saying doubt and having the other guy consider the possibiliy of that "sure" could be spelled "shure".

And their being two words that sound the same that mean different things depending on the content, which goes to show his teacher wasnt correct.

 

[rstrats]

I think the word, "only" should have been included in the teacher's comment.

 

[Jesus_is_LORD]

I Don't see it either.

I see the joke now. LOLL

 

[B-A-C]

I Don't see it either.

The claim was made - that sugar is the word where "su" sounds like "sh".
The joke is in the answer... "are you sure". Sure is another word where "su" sounds like "sh".

 

[rstrats]

But the joke only works with the word "only" added - i.e., The claim was made - that sugar is the only word where "su" sounds like "sh".

 

[hiep]

A brick.

I was about to say crayons but bricks are good too