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A Grape joke is a specific type of question - answer joke. The listener is not expected to provide the answer, but to ask for it to be provided by the teller of the joke. A joke is a short story or short series of words spoken or communicated with the intent of being laughed at or found humorous by the listener or reader. ...
- A question: "What's purple and ..."
- An answer: "... grape ..."
Examples: A fragment of an actual Purple machine found in Berlin at the end of WWII In the history of cryptography, 97-shiki-obun In-ji-ki (ä¹ä¸ƒå¼æ¬§æ–‡å°å—æ©Ÿ) (System 97 Printing Machine for European Characters) or Angooki Taipu B (æš—å·æ©ŸBåž‹) (Type B Cipher Machine), codenamed PURPLE by the United States, was a...
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Q: What's purple and goes up and down? A: A grape in an elevator. Q: What's purple and flies? A: Super-Grape! Q: What's purple and vies for world domination? A: Alexander the Grape. Also: Q: What's purple and commutes? A: An abelian grape. Believed to be unique among the grape jokes, this may actually require explanation unless the listener has had a bit of exposure to college level mathematics. As it requires specialized knowledge, it is also a kind of in-joke. An in joke is a joke whose humour is clear only to those people who are in a group that has some prior knowledge (not known by the whole population) that makes the joke humorous. ...
This joke is a word play on a mathematical term, the abelian group. One of the mathematical properties of abelian groups is their commutative property, where a*b = b*a. The setup relies on the listener assuming the more common meaning of commute - to travel from home to workplace or vice versa. (Since "home" and "workplace" may be exchanged in this description, it is in a sense also commutative.) Word play is a literary technique in which the nature of the words used themselves become part of the subject of the work. ...
In mathematics, an abelian group, also called a commutative group, is a group (G, *) such that a * b = b * a for all a and b in G. Abelian groups are named after Niels Henrik Abel. ...
In mathematics, especially abstract algebra, a binary operation * on a set S is commutative if x * y = y * x for all x and y in S. Otherwise * is noncommutative. ...
There are variations on Grape Jokes, such as Gooseberry jokes - "What's green and hairy and..."
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