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2 July
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Could someone explain me this joke, please? Thank you!
Three elderly men are at the doctors office for a memory test.
The doctor asks the first man, “What is 3×3?”
“274”, came the reply.
The doctor rolls his eyes and looks up at the ceiling and says to the second man, “It’s your turn. What’s 3×3?”
“Tuesday”, replies the second man.
The doctor shakes his head sadly then asks the third man, “Okay, your turn. What’s 3×3?”
“Nine”, says the third man.
“That’s great!” says the doctor. “How did you get that?”
“Simple”, he says. “Just subtract 274 from Tuesday.”
Could someone explain me this joke, please? Thank you!
Three elderly men are at the doctors office for a memory test.
The doctor asks the first man, “What is 3×3?”
“274”, came the reply.
The doctor rolls his eyes and looks up at the ceiling and says to the second man, “It’s your turn. What’s 3×3?”
“Tuesday”, replies the second man.
The doctor shakes his head sadly then asks the third man, “Okay, your turn. What’s 3×3?”
“Nine”, says the third man.
“That’s great!” says the doctor. “How did you get that?”
“Simple”, he says. “Just subtract 274 from Tuesday.”
Three elderly men are at the doctors office for a memory test.
The doctor asks the first man, “What is 3×3?”
“274”, came the reply.
The doctor rolls his eyes and looks up at the ceiling and says to the second man, “It’s your turn. What’s 3×3?”
“Tuesday”, replies the second man.
The doctor shakes his head sadly then asks the third man, “Okay, your turn. What’s 3×3?”
“Nine”, says the third man.
“That’s great!” says the doctor. “How did you get that?”
“Simple”, he says. “Just subtract 274 from Tuesday.”
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Why does he subtract 274 from Tuesday? And how?
- English (US)
@alicetta
It doesn’t make any sense, and that’s the joke. It’s like that old cartoon joke about “the square root of a piece of pie.”
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Thank you! So, he guesses the answer just by chance
- English (US)

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