So, I have a joke or you: “Why do elephants like to bowl?”

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I don’t f*ing know either. This was a joke on a Laffy Taffy wrapper that I read as a kid, but the answer was cut off. And I know you are like “Oh, have you tried Googling it, Sonnie?” YES, yes I have. I even emailed the company at one point in college to see if I could find the answer. Nothing.

I look at this as kind of like The Ring. You have seven days to spread this or some scary kid is going to climb out of your TV or something.

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    ChatGPT couldn’t find the original punchline but Gemini is claiming it’s the following:

    “Because they have big balls!”

    Anyways even if that’s made up, it’s way funnier than ChatGPT’s made up punchlines, and about par for a Laffy Taffy joke.

    Edit: ChatGPT and Claude both independently came up with “Because they’re natural at picking up spares!” which is awkwardly phrased by modern standards and oddly specific, so I wonder if that might be the original punchline. A ton of those laffy taffy jokes are just not funny, so it’s possible. Either that or two different LLMs have the same exact sense of humor.

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    Fairly certain it’s as ralakus said: “They always keep a spare in their trunk”.

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    Hmm, just spitballing here, but what could you point to on an elephant that’s unique (and/or in the public thoughts of elephants)? Memory, size, trunks, large ears, grey skin, tusks, fear of mice, (name of them?) pachyderm?

    For memory - Because they’re the only animal that can remember how to score a strike?

    Trunks - Because their trunks have room to spare?

    Size - Because even the lions aren’t willing to tell them they crossed the line.

    Mice thing - Because they always beat the mice’s half ounce balls.

    Or maybe it’s something to do with bowling? Turkeys, lanes, (heavy/big balls), spares, lines, shoes…

    Shoes - Because they can finally borrow shoes that fit?

    Turkeys - Even elephants love getting turkeys?

    Spares - I dunno