532: Piano
explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb.
| Piano |
 Title text: Good thing he didn't make it smaller, or it'd need someone three inches tall to play it. |
Explanation
The joke here is the reverse of an old joke that appeared in rec.humor.funny. In the original, the story-teller reports that he made a wish with a hard-of-hearing genie for a twelve inch penis and instead got a twelve inch pianist. In this version, Cueball wished for the twelve inch pianist to hard-of-hearing genie, and instead received a twelve-inch penis, to Megan's interest.
The title text is saying that if the guy had made a smaller miniature piano, he might have wished for a smaller "pianist" to play it and received an unfortunate size reduction.
Transcript
- [Cueball is holding a box with an open lid. A miniature piano is inside. Megan is looking at it]
- Cueball: My hobby is making miniatures. Check this out — it's a fully-functional grand piano.
- Megan: Woah — beautiful.
- [Cueball looks at the miniature piano]
- Cueball: Sadly, I've never heard what proper music sounds like on it—the keys are too small to play.
- [Cueball closes lid to the piano.]
- Cueball: I once asked a genie for someone who could play it for me, but I think he misheard.
- Megan: ... are you doing anything later?
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