I got in a tad bit of trouble in World Civ today when my English teacher asked if anyone had a good joke. I decided to volunteer one what I'd heard and found hilarious. For the record, my band teacher and my algebra teacher think it's funny, though disturbing.
My English teacher asked if it was inappropriate. I answered "No," initially, but then revised that to say it is a bit inappropriate. Now, here's the joke:
A couple was invited to a swanky family masked fancy dress Halloween party. The wife got a terrible headache and told her husband to go to the party alone. He, being a devoted husband, protested, but she argued and said she was going to take some aspirin and go to bed and there was no need for his good time to be spoiled by not going. So he took his costume and away he went.
The wife, after sleeping soundly for about an hour, woke without pain and as it was still early, decided to go to the party. As her husband didn't know what her costume was, she thought she would have some fun by watching her husband to see how he acted when she was not with him.
So she joined the party and soon spotted her husband in his costume, cavorting around on the dance floor, dancing with every nice "chick" he could and copping a little feel here and a little kiss there. His wife went up to him and being a rather seductive babe herself, he left his new partner high and dry and devoted his time to her. She let him go as far as he wished, naturally, since he was her husband.
After more drinks he finally whispered a little proposition in her ear and she agreed, so off they went to one of the cars and had passionate intercourse in the back seat. Just before unmasking at midnight, she slipped away and went home and put the costume away and got into bed, wondering what kind of explanation he would make up for his outrageous behaviour.
She was sitting up reading when he came in, so she asked what kind of time he had. "Oh, the same old thing, you know I never have a good time when you're not there."
Then she asked, "Did you dance much?" He replied, "I'll tell you, I never even danced one dance. When I got there, I met Pete, Bill Brown and some other guys, so we went into the spare room and played poker all evening."
"You must have looked really silly wearing that costume playing poker all night!" she said with unashamed sarcasm. To which the husband replied, "Actually, I gave my costume to your Dad, apparently he had the time of his life!!
My class loved the joke (one guy commenting that he'd never thought of me in that light before, or something like that. Guess he didn't know I actually like humor). My history teacher seemed okay with it as well. My English teacher, on the other hand, was not quite happy. A bit later, she berated me for "abusing" her trust and telling an inappropriate joke. According to her, not everyone may have like the joke, and I should consider their opinions.
Now, I personally do not the think the joke is inappropriate yet (you have gotten the punchline by now, right?). Here's why:
1. 9th graders (I'm in 10th) are
required for English to read, and I guess, seeing as my class had to, do a play on Oedipus the King (if you still haven't gotten the joke by now, look up Oedipus in Greek mythology). So, technically, the school has already ordained the joke as appropriate.
2. I did not lie to my teacher. I did in fact amend my first statement about how appropriate it is.
3. I don't care about the opinions of a small minority over the morality/appropriateness of the joke, seeing as they didn't even voice their opinions on the subject. Most feedback I got was along the lines of disturbing, yet funny.
What do you think?
