• ProbablyBaysean@lemmy.ca
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      2 hours ago

      There is a homophone in english: where’s and wears. The joke is that you say it aloud and the emphasis on the sentence becomes a statement.

      Where is the soap

      Vs

      It is wearing the soap down.

      And all it sounds like is “weh-ers tha soap”.

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      15 hours ago

      Its a similar joke.This one’s usually 2 nuns are riding bikes…

      The where’s (wears) the soap joke is 2 nuns are in the bath. One asks the other where’s the soap…

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        10 hours ago

        I don’t think you explained it.

        ‘Wears’ the soap? Where is the double meaning? Are you translating it from another language?

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          7 hours ago

          I had to find the answer from this online. The first sentence is being interpreted by the second nun as: the soap wears away, doesn’t it? Because the second nun has been using it to masturbate.