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Like the joke of the guy returning to Boston after being away for years; asks his cab driver "Do you know where I can get scrod" and the driver says "Sure, but

Like the joke of the guy returning to Boston after being away for years; asks his cab driver "Do you know where I can get scrod" and the driver says "Sure, but I've never heard that in the past perfect before!"

xorbax 2y ago
This might be the first time I get a joke's punchline but not the setup
- aidenn0 2y ago
  Scrod is the name for a small whitefish; he was looking for a seafood restaurant.
- halfcat 2y ago
  You can create infinite such jokes that end with: …and the duck said to the bartender, “put it on my bill”
8bitsrule 2y ago
Hmmm. When I heard that joke long ago, the driver said it was the pluperfect subjunctive. And here I took his word for it.
- aidenn0 2y ago
  Same thing. From Wikipedia: "The pluperfect (shortening of plusquamperfect), usually called past perfect in English"
  - 8bitsrule 2y ago
    Another especially funny part of that joke for me is that this is set in Boston (which has a couple of important colleges) ... because someone once told me that a lot of post-graduates of that college I was attending were driving taxicabs in that city.