Joke Explainer

I bought my friend an elephant for his room. He said, "Thanks". I said, "Don't mention it". I posted this before, but since someone said that they didn't get my explanation, I thought that I would post about it again. To say "don't mention it" is a way of saying "your welcome" to someone which downplays the importance of the thing that you are being thanked for. An "elephant in the room" is a phrase meaning something that you don't talk about even if it is obvious. Since the critical thing about an elephant in a room is that you don't mention them, it is humorous that the elephant that the jokester bought his friend is not just an elephant for his room, but also a figurative "elephant in the room" because it is a pretty obvious thing, and the jokester doesn't want to talk about it.

Q: How can you lift an elephant with one hand? A. Who cares? You will never find an elephant with one hand anyway.

Q: How do you get down from an elephant? A: You don't - you get down from a duck.

I bought my friend an elephant for his room... He said "Thanks!" I said "Don't mention it."

What do you call an elephant that doesn't matter? An irrelephant

Which side of the chicken has the most feathers? The outside

Why do scuba divers always fall backwards out of the boat? If they fell forwards they'd still be in the boat.

Why are peas small and green? Because if they were big and red they'd be fire engines.

A squirrel is sitting in a tree enjoying the sunset when all of a sudden the whole tree starts to shake and rumble. He looks down and sees an elephant climbing the tree. He yells at the elephant, "Hey, get out of my tree, elephant! What are you doing man!?" "Sorry squirrel, I'm just coming up to eat some pears." "This is a pine tree. There are no pears up here!" "Well, I brought my own pears."

Q: What was the elephant doing on the freeway? A: About 5 mph