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20 January 2009

Please to explain today's XKCD.

post by: signal at: 11:47 | 9 comments

Asking a genie for a teeny, tiny pianist...

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 20 January | 11:52

O.K.

If you don't know the joke, it's not clear. And even if you do, it's not readily apparent without checking the TITLE attribute on the image.

Oh, and since LJ syndicated posts expire:

Joke is basically this: Man A encounters Man B in some situation, generally a bar. Near Man B is a 12-inch-tall dude playing a little piano. Man A asks Man B what's up with the tiny piano-player, and Man B explains that there is some sort of wish-granting creature in the vicinity, either a genie or a witch or something.

Man A seeks out the genie or witch, and makes a wish. The genie/witch mishears his wish in some way - 'I wish I had a million bucks' becoms 'I wish I had a million ducks', for example. They blot out the sun for awhile.

Man A goes back into the bar or wherever and finds Man B, and starts complaining about the misheard wish. Man B says "Do you think I wished for a 12-inch pianist?" Because the witch/genie had misheard Man B's wish for a 12-inch penis.

The girl in the comic assumes that the guy wished for a 12-inch pianist and was granted a 12-inch penis.

posted by Eideteker 20 January | 11:55

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH. I see. Need to get my mind in the gutter, apparently.

posted by signal 20 January | 12:01

The first time I heard that joke was Bernadette Peters telling it on Johnny Carson.

posted by danf 20 January | 12:04

I didn't get that one either.

posted by TheophileEscargot 20 January | 12:32

Used to be no one knew that joke, and I used to tell it all the time.

posted by Specklet 20 January | 12:44

wow... I did get it, and had to explain it to my boy. and then I felt like the dirty sicko perv of the relationship. which I am, but still.
Up until now I thought everyone knew the 12 inch pianist joke.

posted by kellydamnit 20 January | 15:20

The first time I ever heard that kind of language from my parents was when my mother dragged my father into the kitchen and shut the door. I stood with my ear pressed against it, and heard my mother proceed to tell him that joke.

I was 10, shocked and ended up on the floor when they came back out the door and I hadn't recovered yet.

posted by ltracey 20 January | 15:44

I had to wonder at the last panel. It's like he's holding it at dick in the box level.

posted by stilicho 21 January | 12:30

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