
Originally Posted by
RobCat
Okay, here's one of my very favorite jokes that's all but guaranteed to illicit either merely a polite chuckle or a blank stare.
Old Penrose enters his favorite club and spies his friend Hargreaves sitting reading the Times in his customary chair next to the fireplace. Penrose walks over and says "So sorry, Hargreaves. I heard you had to bury your dear wife this morning."
Hargreaves looks up from his newspaper and nods. "Yes, had to.", he says. He looks down at his newspaper, his brows knit together pensively, then looks up again and says, as if in afterthought, "Dead, you know."
I get nearly as much fun out of people's reactions as I do from the joke itself.