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13 Dec 2016
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It is a joke, but I cannot get it. Can anyone help me? Thank you!
A man and his pet giraffe walk into a bar and start drinking. As the night goes on, they get drunk, and the giraffe finally passes out. The man decides to go home.
As he's leaving, the man is approached by the barkeeper who says, "Hey, you're not gonna leave that lyin' here, are ya?"
"Hmph," says the man. "That's not a lion -- it's a giraffe."
It is a joke, but I cannot get it. Can anyone help me? Thank you!
A man and his pet giraffe walk into a bar and start drinking. As the night goes on, they get drunk, and the giraffe finally passes out. The man decides to go home.
As he's leaving, the man is approached by the barkeeper who says, "Hey, you're not gonna leave that lyin' here, are ya?"
"Hmph," says the man. "That's not a lion -- it's a giraffe."
A man and his pet giraffe walk into a bar and start drinking. As the night goes on, they get drunk, and the giraffe finally passes out. The man decides to go home.
As he's leaving, the man is approached by the barkeeper who says, "Hey, you're not gonna leave that lyin' here, are ya?"
"Hmph," says the man. "That's not a lion -- it's a giraffe."
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😂😂😂😂 it's a pun because "lyin'" sounds like "lion" so the man thought the barkeeper was calling the giraffe a lion, but he was really asking if he was going to leave it LYING there, which means resting on the floor.
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the drunk man thought the bar keeper told him to take "that lion" but it was a giraffe and he really said "lyin'" which is slang
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