532: Piano

explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb.
Revision as of 13:54, 6 February 2013 by Ekedolphin (Talk | contribs)

(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Jump to: navigation, search
Piano
Good thing he didn't make it smaller, or it'd need someone three inches tall to play it.
Title text: Good thing he didn't make it smaller, or it'd need someone three inches tall to play it.

[edit] 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 Cueball had made a smaller miniature piano, he might have wished for a smaller "pianist" to play it and received an unfortunate size reduction.

[edit] 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?
Comment.png add a comment!

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 ~~~~)
Personal tools
Namespaces

Variants
Actions
Navigation
Toolbox
New Server Fund