Saturday, December 17, 2005

Joke with an oblique reference to Christmas (3)

This guy goes into his dentist's office, because of pain in his mouth. After a brief examination, the dentist exclaims, "Holy Smoke! That plate I installed in your mouth about six months ago has nearly completely corroded! What on earth have you been eating?"

"Well... the only thing I can think of is this... my wife made me some asparagus about four months ago with this stuff on it... Hollandaise sauce she called it... and doctor, I'm talking' DELICIOUS! I've never tasted anything like it, and ever since then I've been putting it on everything...meat, fish, toast, vegetables... you name it!"

"That's probably it," replied the dentist. "Hollandaise sauce is made with lemon juice, which is acidic and highly corrosive. It seems as though I'll have to install a new plate, but made out of chrome this time."

"Why chrome?" the man asked.

"Well, everyone knows that there's no plate like chrome for the Hollandaise!"

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Wow - that's the biggest setup for a pun I've seen in a long time. Who thinks this stuff up? Do they start with a setence like "there's no place like chrome for the Hollandaise" and then think to themselves... "hmmm... how can I write a story that gets the reader to a situation where this sentence might actually be plausible?" Hm... :) -Bo