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Yes it's here at last - The famous Bean Soup joke
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Yes it's here at last - The famous Bean Soup joke
Customer in restaurant: "Waiter Waiter - What's this stuff you've brought me?"
Waiter: "It's Bean Soup sir"
Customer (annoyed): "I don't care what it's been; I want to know what it is now".
Explanation of why the above Bean Soup joke is the funniest Bean Soup joke known:
Been is the past participle of To Be, and is pronounced the same as bean (the vegetable). The customer thinks the waiter is using the present perfect tense and saying, “It has been soup”.
In other words, it was soup in the past, but it is something different now. The customer wants to know what it is in the present tense.
What the waiter is really saying, however, is that “It is bean soup”, and not "It has been soup" (note the different spellings).
But the joke is also funny on different levels:
The customer is puzzled as to why the waiter is telling him what the food has been in the past. This suggests that it was soup that has been rejected by a previous customer and is now being p*ssed off as something else just to gett*en rid of it. "It has been soup" infers that it was soup once but it is something else now.
The customer is obviously annoyed about this so he asks the waiter what the soup has been converted to "I want to know what it is now". This also supposes that the waiter has accidentally admitted that the food was previously soup and has now been converted to something else; which in itself is a very humourous mistake for the waiter to manufacture. :natter:
If a customer asks what food the waiter has brought, why would the waiter tell them what the food had been in the past? He wouldn't of course (excuse the pun) and this is yet another level of very funny humour to be enjoyed.
Is there any wonder that this Bean Soup joke is not just the best Bean Soup joke, but probably the best joke of all time.
Waiter: "It's Bean Soup sir"
Customer (annoyed): "I don't care what it's been; I want to know what it is now".
Explanation of why the above Bean Soup joke is the funniest Bean Soup joke known:
Been is the past participle of To Be, and is pronounced the same as bean (the vegetable). The customer thinks the waiter is using the present perfect tense and saying, “It has been soup”.
In other words, it was soup in the past, but it is something different now. The customer wants to know what it is in the present tense.
What the waiter is really saying, however, is that “It is bean soup”, and not "It has been soup" (note the different spellings).
But the joke is also funny on different levels:
The customer is puzzled as to why the waiter is telling him what the food has been in the past. This suggests that it was soup that has been rejected by a previous customer and is now being p*ssed off as something else just to gett*en rid of it. "It has been soup" infers that it was soup once but it is something else now.
The customer is obviously annoyed about this so he asks the waiter what the soup has been converted to "I want to know what it is now". This also supposes that the waiter has accidentally admitted that the food was previously soup and has now been converted to something else; which in itself is a very humourous mistake for the waiter to manufacture. :natter:
If a customer asks what food the waiter has brought, why would the waiter tell them what the food had been in the past? He wouldn't of course (excuse the pun) and this is yet another level of very funny humour to be enjoyed.
Is there any wonder that this Bean Soup joke is not just the best Bean Soup joke, but probably the best joke of all time.
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Re: Yes it's here at last - The famous Bean Soup joke
Excellent. But your investment in time is dubious.
To read it took me about 5% of the time it took you to write it.
This certainly demonstrates your devotion to the Mad Shed forum, which, if we had a Prizemaster, would be very prizeworthy.
But as things stand, you gett*en no prize. Nix. Nothing.
Life's a bitch. And then you die.
To read it took me about 5% of the time it took you to write it.
This certainly demonstrates your devotion to the Mad Shed forum, which, if we had a Prizemaster, would be very prizeworthy.
But as things stand, you gett*en no prize. Nix. Nothing.
Life's a bitch. And then you die.
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I do not expect to receive any prizes.
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Re: Yes it's here at last - The famous Bean Soup joke
It's a play on words, Mr Nilly.
The customer thinks the waiter is being awkward with him, whereas in reality the waiter is simply expressing his fervent belief that man's survival in this highly materialistic world is conditional upon his constant, and somewhat futile, attempts at achieving meaningful satisfaction in his life without expending more than a nominal degree of effort. Thus any perceived pleasure derived from this approach is shallow, meaningless and transient, so the customer might as well go home and play games on his C64, which he will understand far better than he did the waiter.
I hope that helps.
The customer thinks the waiter is being awkward with him, whereas in reality the waiter is simply expressing his fervent belief that man's survival in this highly materialistic world is conditional upon his constant, and somewhat futile, attempts at achieving meaningful satisfaction in his life without expending more than a nominal degree of effort. Thus any perceived pleasure derived from this approach is shallow, meaningless and transient, so the customer might as well go home and play games on his C64, which he will understand far better than he did the waiter.
I hope that helps.
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Re: Yes it's here at last - The famous Bean Soup joke
Congratulations Mr RunAway, on a wonderfully succinct, yet lucid translation
of the aforementioned joke into Nilly-ese.
No easy task!
of the aforementioned joke into Nilly-ese.
No easy task!
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Thank you Mr Runa*direction.
That is yet another two levels of humour that I had hitherto failed to recognise.
That is yet another two levels of humour that I had hitherto failed to recognise.
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Re: Yes it's here at last - The famous Bean Soup joke
So you're the waiter and I'm the customer somewhat lost in translation who eventually went home for some vintage 8-portion pixellated bean satisfaction instead. It all manufactures complete partial sense now
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Re: Yes it's here at last - The famous Bean Soup joke
Yes you are. You just said you're waiting outside to gett*en in for the factory tour.
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Re: Yes it's here at last - The famous Bean Soup joke
Who gave the forum a chocolate brown-coloured border?
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Re: Yes it's here at last - The famous Bean Soup joke
Yes I did say that didn't I?
You have of a very good memory, Mr Nilly.
You have of a very good memory, Mr Nilly.
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No he didn't.
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Re: Yes it's here at last - The famous Bean Soup joke
Melvyn did it,- as an off-stage whisper. Remember?
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No, we don't allow any rows on here.
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Why is the Chairman so smugly pleased with himself this morning, I wonder ?
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Oh All correct then, "Chuffed".
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