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Still don't get it. Legolas Send a noteboard - 30/09/2012 10:39:51 PM
The pun is in "two tents" sounding like "too tense", while the man is repeating two types of tent. The other way around the statement doesn't make sense, destroying the logic of the joke.

But it makes sense for him to say "you're too tense", too, as the man walking into the bar is obviously tense and stressed.

I'm sure you and Stephen have a good reason to say it's a pun one way around and not the other, but I really don't see it... perhaps the pun is such a quintessentially English kind of humour that you all have nuances and subtleties to them that escape non-native speakers. :P
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A man walks into a bar MrFarstrider - 30/09/2012 12:55:15 PM 736 Views
*groan* Danu - 30/09/2012 06:37:38 PM 494 Views
Shouldn't the punchline be- Stephen - 30/09/2012 07:04:15 PM 504 Views
How do you figure that? Legolas - 30/09/2012 09:31:24 PM 450 Views
He's right snoopcester - 30/09/2012 10:30:01 PM 471 Views
Still don't get it. Legolas - 30/09/2012 10:39:51 PM 512 Views
Bloody furriners! snoopcester - 30/09/2012 11:26:38 PM 479 Views
Is it? Gher - 01/10/2012 01:11:32 AM 590 Views
Puns are all over Latin and Ancient Greek. Ghavrel - 01/10/2012 01:08:44 PM 478 Views
I would so have bought that wine. Rebekah - 01/10/2012 01:54:06 PM 485 Views
Sweet. *NM* Gher - 02/10/2012 06:02:17 PM 278 Views
Let me put it this way... Legolas - 01/10/2012 07:00:58 PM 450 Views
Thanks! That makes sense. Gher - 02/10/2012 05:52:36 PM 602 Views
Oh. Ehehe, I was saying the wrong part out loud. nossy - 01/10/2012 12:04:12 AM 494 Views
Lol so was I *NM* Dark Knight - 01/10/2012 05:01:05 AM 214 Views
...I don't get it *NM* Dark Knight - 30/09/2012 07:11:38 PM 196 Views
A dyslexic man walked into a bra Yunalesca - 30/09/2012 10:13:05 PM 598 Views
Three bearded men walk into a bar, wearing turbans... snoopcester - 30/09/2012 10:31:29 PM 502 Views
Re: Three bearded men walk into a bar, wearing turbans... Praziquantel - 01/10/2012 03:27:45 AM 711 Views
Sorry but did you post this in the wrong place? snoopcester - 01/10/2012 10:21:25 PM 445 Views
*applauds* *NM* Stephen - 01/10/2012 04:02:52 PM 209 Views
He's not tense. He's just intent on having a beer. *NM* Nebhead - 02/10/2012 01:06:00 PM 207 Views
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