532: Piano

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Piano

Title text: Good thing he didn't make it smaller, or it'd need someone three inches tall to play it.

Explanation

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The joke here is the reverse of an old joke that appeared in rec.humor.funny. In the original, the story-teller has a diminutive pianist, and reports that he made a wish with a hard-of-hearing genie and got a twelve inch pianist. In this version, the man wished for the twelve inch pianist to hard-of-hearing genie, and the girl realized what he got instead.

Transcript

[Man is holding a box with an open lid. A miniature piano is inside. The girl is looking at it]

Man: My hobby is making miniatures. Check this out— it's a fully-functional grand piano.

Woman: Woah — beautiful.

[Man looks at the miniature piano]

Man: Sadly, I've never heard what proper music sounds like on it—the keys are too small to play.

[Man closes lid to the piano.]

Man: I once asked a genie for someone who could play it for me, but I think he misheard.

Girl: ... are you doing anything later?

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Discussion

Maybe I'm wrong here, but by looking at the size of the piano compared with Cueball and having read the title text, I wonder if the joke might be that he wished for a 4-5 inch penis instead? I wasn't sure enoough to go ahead an change it though. Athang (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)