• ProbablyBaysean@lemmy.ca
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        20 hours ago

        There is a homophone in english: where’s and wears. The joke is that you say it aloud and the emphasis on the sentence becomes a statement.

        Where is the soap

        Vs

        It is wearing the soap down.

        And all it sounds like is “weh-ers tha soap”.

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        1 day ago

        Its a similar joke.This one’s usually 2 nuns are riding bikes…

        The where’s (wears) the soap joke is 2 nuns are in the bath. One asks the other where’s the soap…

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          1 day ago

          I don’t think you explained it.

          ‘Wears’ the soap? Where is the double meaning? Are you translating it from another language?

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            1 day ago

            I had to find the answer from this online. The first sentence is being interpreted by the second nun as: the soap wears away, doesn’t it? Because the second nun has been using it to masturbate.