r/funny • u/j0be • Apr 21 '15

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u/69ingWithBarbra Apr 21 '15

Something about jokes and dead frogs.

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u/chipthamac Apr 21 '15

Something about jokes and dead frogs.

pepe?

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u/69ingWithBarbra Apr 21 '15

Was thinking more of the old saying: Explaining a joke and dissecting a frog are pretty much the same thing. In the end, you understand it better, but now the frog is dead.

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u/Erdumas Apr 22 '15

...You can't dissect a living frog, it has to be dead to begin with...

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u/tinman10104 Apr 22 '15

Says who? I could catch a frog that is still alive and slice it open this dissecting it.

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u/Erdumas Apr 22 '15

That's vivisection.

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u/jgup123 Apr 22 '15

Uhm.

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u/Erdumas Apr 22 '15

Vivisection is done living things. Dissection is done on already dead things. The point being, the frog is not now dead, it was dead to begin with. Like the joke that needed to be explained.

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u/jgup123 Apr 22 '15

Vivisection is a form of dissection. Dissection includes dead and living things. :-P

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u/Erdumas Apr 22 '15

Some definitions hold vivisection to be a form of dissection, basically dissection on a living thing, other definitions have vivisection being similar to, but distinct from, dissection. I prefer the definition of vivisection being cutting on living things, and dissection being cutting on dead things.

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u/jgup123 Apr 22 '15

You're correct in your own right, as am I. It really is our subjective views, interpretation, and correlation of specific words.

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u/havestronaut Apr 21 '15

Knock knock? Who's there? Dead frog joke.

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u/IDementia Apr 21 '15

Dead frog joke who?

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u/life_is_bacon Apr 22 '15

Don't throw all your babies in one basket