His friends have recommended that while in town he should visit a seafood restaurant to try Boston scrod (yes, that's a real fish). So on the way from the airport to his hotel, he asks the cabdriver:
"Hey, cabbie, what's a good place in this town to get scrod?"
The cabdriver looks into the rear view mirror and says,
"Buddy, in the 20 years that I've been driving this cab, I've been asked that question many times, and in many ways. But you're the first joker who ever asked it in the pluperfect subjunctive tense!!!!!"
2007-11-07 16:12:23 · 8 answers · asked by Michael M 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
The pluperfect subjunctive is something you learn about in an advanced language course. But you don't need to know the details of that to get the joke.
The play on words is that the word 'scrod' sounds like a past tense of "screw". And if you know anything about Boston cabdrivers, the idea that one would respond to a question about getting laid (screwed, scrod) with an obscure grammatical reference is absurd!
What I find fascinating about this joke is that whenever I tell it (and oral vs written presentation might make a big difference here), people get this smug look on their faces when they hear " get scrod". They are sure they have anticipated that the punch line will be about a sexual misinterpretation of the man's question, and they are right...yet they are still taken by surprise and laugh!
They're positive this is going to turn out to be a sexual joke, and instead it turns out to be possibly the world's only grammar joke!
2007-11-08 10:09:22 · update #1
Okay, it took a few seconds but I got it! And laughed!
2007-11-07 18:14:02 · answer #1 · answered by dizzkat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cabbie thought he was asking "where's a good place to get screwed?" Right? pluperfect subjunctive tense - meaning the "replica"- so to say-- of the meaning of what cabbie thought he was trying to say.
2007-11-08 00:36:24 · answer #2 · answered by hey you 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What in the heck is pulpowahtits subjective tense
2007-11-08 00:23:14 · answer #3 · answered by joe hardy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is pluperfect subjunctive tense!!!!!"
2007-11-08 00:16:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hahaha
sounds like he's an English major that didn't get hired or didn't like his job so he went to driving cab.
cheers
2007-11-08 00:15:22 · answer #5 · answered by Now I'm Outta Here 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hahahahahahahahahaahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahhaha!!!!!!!!!!!!omg, lol, rofl, wtf,ftw...I dont get it but here's a star
2007-11-08 00:16:19 · answer #6 · answered by THAI KICK 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol
2007-11-08 01:13:15 · answer #7 · answered by Maple Sugar 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
0_o say what?!!?!?!??!?!!?!
2007-11-08 00:15:26 · answer #8 · answered by Beatle-Juice 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋