Can you work this out? It is genuinely from Henry VIII's time. The king's jester goes to him and says he can make the king's horse talk before the week is out. The king says "fine, but if you don't you will be executed". Jester says, "OK". The jester's friends are distraught, telling him "you are certain to die; no horse can talk, what's going to happen to you when the week is out?". The jester replies: "Well, either I will die, or the king will die, or the horse will talk!" Does anyone understand that???
2006-12-11 00:06:03 · 22 answers · asked by stevedukenew 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
On the face of it, the joke is that the jester is an idiot - another word for jester is fool. There is no chance that the horse will speak, it is unlikely that the king will die so it is overwhelmingly probable that he will be executed even though he thinks there are three different ways the thing could pan out.
OTOH it is possible that the jester is a ventriloquist and knows that he will be able to make the horse appear to talk. In that case the joke is on the others
2006-12-11 00:11:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
His friends are concerned about him and ask him the question what is going to happen to you at the week. Because he is a idiot he does not get the question being one of concern for his well being and just lists out the three posibilities. Either I will die, or the king or the horse will talk. He is just telling them what is going to happen at the end of the week, it is funny because he gives a stupid answer!
2006-12-11 01:00:33 · answer #2 · answered by Drop a heart, break a name 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the king was sick and going to die withing less then a week, the jester knew the king wouldn't`t last that long.
2006-12-11 00:14:28 · answer #3 · answered by THE WISE MAN 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just guessing...
He must have put certain conditions...
For example,
(1) the horse will talk when its raining and there should not be any clouds in the sky
(2) the horse will talk but you should not expect in your mind that it will talk... so when they go for the trial, he can say, "you expected that it will talk so it's not talking"
(3) the horse will talk but it's language is different from ours so we won't understand...
and so on...
2006-12-11 00:51:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the joke at the time was that the king was very sick at the time, and wasn't supposed to live longer than a week. He wound up being on his deathbed for a bit, unable to do anything, etc.
You had to have been there...
2006-12-11 02:22:20 · answer #5 · answered by Daniel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe the jeester gives the king L$D and IMAGINES the horse talk?
2006-12-11 06:17:27 · answer #6 · answered by L 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
is the jester IMPLYING that the king is a horse???!
2006-12-11 04:41:34 · answer #7 · answered by Pink 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like a job for Mr Ed!
http://members.tripod.com/~horsefame/MrEdS.htm
2006-12-11 00:14:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not unless the horse became a nag!
2006-12-11 01:02:46 · answer #9 · answered by Kizzy_ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can take a horse to water, but you can't make it think !
Perhaps it was a little hoarse ! hahaha
2006-12-11 01:46:38 · answer #10 · answered by Scotty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋