BAD JOKE REDUX
well i’m declaring myself desperate for material today, so what the hell, why not bring back one of those excellent text message jokes suckers can get sent to their cellphone for $0.99/day. maybe i will accept donations if i keep these kinds of posts going, but every once and awhile it’s good to see if this crackhead joke-texting company (and by company i mean 13yr old british kid…probably) has lost their comedic touch…
and just so you believe me that i am actually receiving this crap on my phone instead of googling really bad jokes just to save a shekel, i included a screen shot (yes i know my battery is low). this is the real deal, people…
what is grey and not there.
no elephants. 
well crap. not only did they opt for the command form of the question (aka. NO QUESTION MARK) but it is quite unclear to me as to whether or not the person being told the joke is supposed to answer incorrectly so that the punchline becomes “no, you dumbass - elephants. duh” however, after talking it through with the kid from jerry mcguire, it has become clear to me that elephants are indeed grey, so simply “elephants” cannot be the “answer.”
NOW, let us consider the literal punchline: “no elephants”
ok, so i get that if there are no elephants around (specifically “there”), they can still be grey. but so can a lot of stuff - cooked hamburger meat is kind of grey. so are steel reinforcement beams and some 4-door sedans. but maybe all these items were “there” at the time of the joke. but what if you were telling this joke in the african savannah? would the answer be an apple powerbook?
bottom line: this joke is not well thought out, but it does give rise to a new annoying joke template. the research to arrive at this new template is probably why we are being charged $0.99. see, now i can be funny to impress my friends:
what is yellow and not there. no canaries.
what is pink, purple, weird and not there. no dennis rodman.
what is brown and always there. chuck norris’s beard.
and so on.
i think my money would have been better spent on getting HALF of a pizza delivered from DOMINOS.