"21 Jokes Only History Nerds Will Understand"

[applegrove]

21 Jokes Only History Nerds Will Understand

http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexnaidus/amazingly-nerdy-history-jokes

(I got 17 of them)

[TDale313]

1. Those were great. Thanks for posting this.

[arcane1]

2. Heh, some of those were quite cute

[applegrove]

6. I know.

[LuvNewcastle]

3. Which ones did you have trouble with? I think I got them all.

[applegrove]

7. I had trouble with "Impaler - I hardly know her" the other two I got when I looked at them again.

I know vlad the impaler is the picture. But I don't know what Impaler is a pun for or the context of the "I hardly know her". Sounds familiar to me though. Like I should know.

[arcane1]

12. I think it was just a joke about that type of pun, not a pun in itself.

But I could be wrong

[applegrove]

23. Okay. That makes sense. So I got them all in the end.

[Spider Jerusalem]

14. "impale her? I hardly know her!"

[Motown_Johnny]

28. The pic is of Vlad the Impaler

Bad pun but kinda clever.

[johnp3907]

15. The "2 fingers, 5 beers" one.

[Hydra]

16. V is 5 in roman numerals

Took me a min.

[johnp3907]

17. D'oh!

So simple once someone explains it!

[Taitertots]

22. But "II" would still be two fingers

[applegrove]

24. Oh. I got that wrong. I thought it was a joke showing how stupid Romans were.

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That is a much better joke. V=5

[Motown_Johnny]

29. I don't get 3 of them

The roman and the martini one and the two which seem to turn on the word "sans", Archduke and the shovel one.

Pardon my ignorance.

[winter is coming]

34. The martini one has to do with plurals,

(i.e. the "plural" of martinus would be martini). The other two are font types ("serf" for "serif&quot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans-serif.

[eridani]

39. That goes back to an old Wayne and Schuster comedy routing

"Gimme a martinus"
"Don't you mean martini?"
"If I wanted two, I'd have asked for two."

Ed Sullivan show, circa 1956,

[muriel_volestrangler]

37. The Archduke is Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination started World War One

So when were were 'sans' (ie without) Ferdinand, the trouble started.

[WillyT]

4. My Faves... K & R !!

[Jim Lane]

30. That first one has been made less funny.

Supposedly, Nikita Krushchev used to tell the joke about someone yelling "Krushchev is an idiot!" That gives it a little extra zip.

[winter is coming]

35. And he still got a lighter sentence than Manning. n/t

[Brother Buzz]

5. I may be mistaken, but I believe Mr. Peabody should be credited for a few of those

[independentpiney]

9. I think you may be right about that. nt

[Art_from_Ark]

45. If anyone could make a gawdawful pun about an historical event,

it was Mr. Peabody!

[awoke_in_2003]

8. Marking for later- damn firewall. nt

[Spider Jerusalem]

10. Number 6 was actually Proudhon, not Marx

but I suppose more people have heard of Marx.

[Warpy]

11. I got the ones I could see

Anybody who thinks red lettering on a black background is nifty should be taken out and shot.

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. Funny

[LearningCurve]

18. 20 of 21

I didn't get 18. Is that a font joke?

[NutmegYankee]

20. Sans is "without".

The serf (peasant under feudalism) in the second photo was gone.

[socialist_n_TN]

27. Well I knew that. That's a joke?

I don't get it.

[X_Digger]

31. Sans serif (the font family) n/t

[Jim Lane]

32. As LearningCurve said, it's a font joke.

Fonts can be serif (like Times Roman) or sans serif (like Arial). There's just an iota of difference between that distinction and the one in the drawing.

[Retrograde]

33. Styles of type faces

serif vs sans serif

[muriel_volestrangler]

36. I think they should have used serif and sans serif type faces for the captions

to complete the joke.

[NutmegYankee]

38. That would have made it funnier.

It was otherwise lacking.

[Paulie]

41. And should fix the kerning too!!!

[NutmegYankee]

19. I got 20 out of 21.

Got stumped on Number 4.

[dsc]

25. In Latin for one of the groups of nouns the plural ending for us is i

[Spitfire of ATJ]

26. Watch the graffiti scene in "Life of Brian" again.

[Scuba]

21. These are great! Thanks.

[Scurrilous]

40. Kick

[Demonaut]

42. 21

[msanthrope]

43. This is awesome! Thank you! nt

[Blue_In_AK]

44. Ha, those were funny.

Thanks for the grins.

I understood them all, by the way. I am a nerd. Two years of Latin helped.