A Comic strip shows a blind pig on the street with a sign reading: "Never found an acorn". What's the joke?

Answer 1

It's a play on the saying that even a blind hog finds an acorn every now and then. The saying is used when someone does something lucky or very rare. ie If my wife was shooting hoops and made a basket, I would say even a blind hog finds an acorn every now and then. Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Normally the saying is "even a blind squirrel find an acorn once in awhile" as a satirically or lucky type of comment to a situation. So the joke is although the pig is also blind, he never has found the proverbial the acorn.

Answer 3

Slang.

The blind pig, sometimes known as a blind tiger or a speakeasy, was at its most popular in the 1920s, when alcohol was illegal in the US. The Prohibition era, which lasted from 1920 to 1933, led to new kinds of crimes and related slang words.

As for the blind pigs, to avoid detection by police, they were unmarked and usually had very small windows. Therefore the name could refer to either the difficulty of seeing out of one, or the difficulty of finding one. I like to imagine it’s related to the old saying, “even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes” though it’s unlikely that alcoholic patrons were able to find the unadvertised clubs by their sense of smell alone!

Answer 4

There's an old adage that basically says "Even a blind pig will occasionally find an acorn." Which is another way of saying that someone found something or accomplished something by just sheer dumb luck.

Answer 5

It comes from a flippant saying where someone accomplishes something that would normally be beyond their reach: "Even a blind pig finds an acorn every once in while."

Answer 6

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Answer 7

dont know