Jokes that don’t meet Flobs’ exacting standards thread

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I really don’t get this. Seems everyone else did, what am I missing?

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It’s to do with how text messages used to be done. Before predictive text messaging you needed to press buttons a number of times for each letter. So 9 three times gives you a Y, 3 twice gives you an E.

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I’m sure it’s funny if I could be arsed. Going back to playing snakey snakey.

In fairness, it’s only funny if you ARE old and went to all the trouble of working it out first.

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It was a common issue with the old style phones that when you put them in your pocket, you would type out random numbers.

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Can’t tell if serious. Those numbers aren’t random… Or are you just mentioning that as an extra facet to the joke?

I remember when phones were like that. Pain in the arse to text!

In terms of the joke, when it has had a couple of rounds of explanation, it is possible it didn’t land in the right spot first time round :joy:

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It’s a joke targeted at a specific age/audience and everyone else needs some explanation, but for that target audience it’s a good joke.

Me neither. I must be young? :wink:

Darn it, I’ve given myself away. :crazy_face::joy::nerd_face:

Q. If you’ve got a cricket ball in 1 hand and a cricket ball in the other hand, what have you got?

A . A massive cricket

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Have not been posting here…is Flobs still around?

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