Easter Bunny Joke

[Bonobo]

Around Easter, a farmer drives his truck along the road when his truck suddenly hits something. The farmer stops, gets out of the truck and, to his great horror, sees that he ran over the Easter Bunny, and coloured Easter Eggs are rolling all over the road.
 
The farmer is desperate because he knows his kids are waiting, eager search and find all those Easter Eggs, etc., and he tries to revive the rabbit, but in vain. Oh, the despair. How should he explain this to his children!
 
Then an old lady comes driving down the road, stops behind the farmer’s truck, gets out, and looks what happened. Upon seeing the lifeless Easter Bunny, she runs back to her car, takes out her hand bag and runs back to the rabbit.
 
There she takes a spray can out of her handbag and sprays its contents all over the Easter Bunny.
 
After a few minutes the Easter Bunny shakes itself, opens its eyes, gets up, runs around and collects all those spilled Easter Eggs back into its basket. When finished, the Easter Bunny begins hopping away, continuing its course to the gardens in order to hide the Easter Eggs for the children.
 
Every few metres the Easter Bunny stops, turns back to the farmer and the old lady and waves towards them. Hops on, stops, turns back, waves. Hops on, stops, turns back and waves. Hops on, stops, turns back and waves. Hops on, stops, turns back and waves. Hops on, stops, turns back and waves. Hops on, stops, turns back and waves. Hops on, stops, turns back and waves. Hops on, stops, turns back and waves. Hops on, stops, turns back and waves …
 
The farmer is speechless, but very happy that, after all, the Easter Bunny is not dead and his children will be able to search Easter Eggs. After a while he asks the old lady what it really was that she did to the Easter Bunny to bring it back to life.
 
The old lady shows him the spray can … the label says: “Hair Spray - revives your hair, adds permanent wave”.
 
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This joke is untranslatable b/c it utilises the fact that many people can’t spell well: “hair” vs. “hare” (another word for rabbit/bunny).

[Widget]

Fantastic; I didn't expect to be impressed but it really made me laugh 

[Pilchard123]

A hare is a totally different species to a rabbit, but it's still funny.

[Bonobo]

Thx @ Pilchard123 for the information. It was there all the time, somewhere in the back of my head, but I never really was aware of it.

Well, I guess then, in future, I’ll tell the joke only w/ “hare” and “bunny” and leave away the “rabbit". I take it that “bunny” goes for both, rabbits and hares?

[Aino]

Who cares, well ofc yuo should care... but this is a joke, so who cares?

[Bonobo]

Well, I certainly care, much the more since English is my second language (began speaking E. at age of four when my parents went to Southern India with me & my li’l sister), and I care about language b/c it helps us transport information, and, IMHO, the more precisely, the better.



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Plus, as a media guy, and having worked in education for the past decade, I think everybody who speaks/writes has a responsibility to speak/write as precisely as possible, to describe the world—from his perspective—as exactly as possible …

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[Widget]

Bunny is a term for a rabbit aswell but it's not a problem to use that play on words in this joke. It's very common to fudge that sort of detail in order to use a good pun. I've definitely heard a few that use puffin and penguin near-interchangeably 

[Aino]

Well, I certainly care, much the more since English is my second language (began speaking E. at age of four when my parents went to Southern India with me & my li’l sister), and I care about language b/c it helps us transport information, and, IMHO, the more precisely, the better.



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Plus, as a media guy, and having worked in education for the past decade, I think everybody who speaks/writes has a responsibility to speak/write as precisely as possible, to describe the world—from his perspective—as exactly as possible …

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I did say that you should care, but this is a joke... And a joke isn't so very serious. But else you should care about grammar and spelling

[Bonobo]

Thanks, Aino, I definitely care about grammar and spelling, and I’ll be glad if you correct me where apt