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How can you tell if an elephant has been in your refrigerator? (象が冷蔵庫にいたかどうかどうやってわかりますか?) From(By) the footprints in the butter.(バターについた足跡で） Why do elephants wear sneakers?(象はなぜスニーカーを履くか?) To creep up on mice.（ねずみに忍びよるため） What does an elephant call a dinosaur?(象は恐竜を何と呼ぶ?) Extinct.(絶滅） 上記のジョークが、分かる人、解説を、お願いします。
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ジョーク＆ダ・ジャーレ 論理的によじれていて、説明できないからジョークなのです。 （落語のオチだって、十人が十人とも理解できないはずです） そこで、どことなく似通ったジョークを併記してみましょう。 ♪ ホッペについた飯粒をからかった童謡があります。 ── 楠木 トシエ（ビンちゃん）・唱《お弁当つけて、どこ行くの？》 《おはようこどもショー 1965-19790302 日本テレビ》石川 進・司会 “Are you saving that for lunch?” http://englishmaster.blog51.fc2.com/blog-category-0.html 通訳の「英語にまつわるアレコレ」英語トリビア たぶん象（elephant）は、地球上最古の動物だと思いこんでいます。 つぎに絶滅（extinct）することも知っているのでしょう。 “The elephant has not been extinct.” 以下は、わたしのオリジナル・ジョーク＆ダジャレより。 ── 留守宅に電話がかかってきたので、空き巣が出てしまった。 “Hello, here is nobody.”（もしもし、ここには誰もいませんよ） ── 受付嬢が、彼の顔をみて「まあ、どうなさったの？」と叫んだ。 彼は即座に答える「ゆうべ女房のゲンコツを思いきりなぐってやった のサ、もちろん、この“アゴ”でね”」（男性専科・冗句箱） ── 「象が絵を描くんだって？」「もっぱら自画像だってさ」 http://www.jbook.co.jp/p/p.aspx/2327758/s/~6b19cf0ce 象に絵を描かせるプロジェクトなどでも知られる芸術家ユニット
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最初のは「冷象庫」にかけている。 2つ目は、象はネコのようにねずみにコッソリ（sneak）近づいて襲わないが、象もスニーカーをはけば、それができるようになるという冗談。 3つ目は、図体（ずうたい）が大きすぎて滅んだ恐竜類を尻目に、自分はデカいがナウマン象の時代から生き残ったぞ、という皮肉。 かな？（笑）もちろんジョークです。
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象の足はバターよりはるかに巨大なので足跡が付くはずはないですね。 象はあのサイズですので、いくらスニーカーを履いてこそこそ歩いてもネズミにはバレバレ。 ということで、この2つはナンセンスジョークとでもいうのでしょうか。 でも最後のはブラックジョークですね。 恐竜はあの巨大な体が絶滅した原因の一つと考えられていますが、現在陸上で最大の生き物である象がかつての最大の生き物を「絶滅」と呼ぶわけですから。
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ジョークにも、いろいろと、あるのですね。 ご回答に感謝しております。
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典型的なelephant jokeと呼ばれるものです。特に意味はありません。ばかばかしいことや韻を踏んだおもしろさなどを答えに盛り込みます。古典的なものもあるし、また、それをもじりながらどんどん自分で答えを作っていくのです。 一つめの質問に対して・・・象が冷蔵庫なんて入るわけないですけど答えはバーターに大きな象の足跡がついてるからさと冗句で答えます。 二つめの質問に対して・・・sneakerのsneakには「こっそりと近づく、足音をしのばせる」という意味があります。だからそこのおもしろさを狙ったものです。 三つめの質問に対して・・・普通は、Ｏ（目的語）を何と呼ぶの？ 呼び名を想定しての質問です。それに対してExtinct（絶滅）って冗句で返しているのです。なるほど・・・みたいにね。 だって恐竜は絶滅してますものね。答える側が質問者に対して以下にウイットに富んだ、ばかばかしさに溢れた、また韻を踏んだ答えを出せるかがポイントなんです。以下のサイトを参考にしてみて下さい。またelephant jokeで検索されるともっといろいろなパターンを見つけることができますよ。
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参考になるURLを、 添えて頂き、 有難うがざいました。
スニーカーの件は、「象はねずみが怖い」ことからでしょうね。 鼻の穴に入られるから、という俗説らしいです。 見つかるのはイヤだけど、仕返しか何かをするために 音を立てずにこっそり...ってところでしょう。 他はわかりません。
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