AAAUUUGH! I DON'T GET IT!!

[ZOMBIE USER 197]

Sixth sheik... sick sheep... jeep sheet... It's obviously leading up to SOMETHING similar that ol' BJ can't or won't say on the phone, but I can't figure it out.

All I can think of is the horrible math-pun-riddle. "If you have twenty sick sheep and one of them dies, how many do you have left?" Naturally, it only works ALOUD, in which case your victim says "twenty five" and you say "nineteen."

Please tell me BoxJam's punchline is better than this one...

--Howard

[Riney]

Well, I remember the old tongue twister, "the sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick", so that accounts for the first two...I guess I don't get the last two panels.

--riney

[Burke]

aaah...and when Boxjams says "he can't say" ot's not cos he doesn't know, it's because he literally can't say it.

BaDum!

[Ostrichgirl]

I'm pretty sure it's just supposed to be the most tongue-twisting thing possible.

Caller: Where are you?
Boxjam: At the sixth sheik's sick sheep's jeep sheet.

You can see how thorny that would be.

[TeenIdol]

On 2002-03-26 07:01, Howard wrote:

All I can think of is the horrible math-pun-riddle. "If you have twenty sick sheep and one of them dies, how many do you have left?" Naturally, it only works ALOUD, in which case your victim says "twenty five" and you say "nineteen."

The doodle I got. This I don't. Maybe b/c I
refuse to say it out loud.

[Michael]

Let me go on record as withdrawing my nomination of Howard Tayler as Cool Person of the Year.

Burke, now -- HE got it. But then we all knew Burke was cool.

[Riney]

...because he literally can't say it.

BaDum!

Ah, enlightenment!

Very nice.

--riney

[Burke]

To be fair, I'm not cool because I got it (I never would have understood if it riney hadn;t mentioned that it was an old tongue twister), I'm cool because I read Toonbots.

[ZOMBIE USER 197]

Well, I get it now. And I'm not worried at having lowered my coolness factor. See, I'm working on HUMILITY now (cool is so passé)...

--Howard