"Are you insane?" the bartender demanded. The man finally agrees, and turns the frog over to the stranger in exchange for the money.
"No," he insists, "he's not for sale." The stranger again increases the offer, this time to $500,000.00 cash. "Sorry," the man replies, "he's not for sale." The stranger increases the offer to $250,000.00 cash up front. While the man is enjoying his beverages, a stranger confronts him and offers him $100,000.00 for the bullfrog. The man reaches into another pocket and pulls out a small bullfrog, who begins to sing along with the rat's music. The rat stretches, cracks his knuckles, and proceeds to play the blues. He reaches into his other pocket and pulls out a tiny piano. The man reaches into his pocket and pulls out a tiny rat.
#MAN WALKS INTO A BAR AND PULLS OUT A TINY PIANO FREE#
The rat stretches, cracks his knuckles, and proceeds to play the blues.Īfter the man finished his drink, he asked the bartender, "If I show you an even better trick, will you give me free drinks for the rest of the evening?" The bartender agrees, thinking that no trick could possibly be better than the first. Size apparently matters to the woman.So a man walks into a bar and asks the bartender, "If I show you a really good trick, will you give me a free drink?" The bartender considers it, then agrees. So the guy asked the genie for a 12-inch pianist - and got a 12-inch penis instead. I don’t know a joke involving monkeys and merkins, however.)įinally, magnificently reversed in an xkcd (#532): The barman replies, ‘You think I wanted a 12-inch pianist?’ He tells the barman, ‘Hey, I didn’t want a million ducks.’ A cloud of smoke fills the room and when the smoke clears there are a million ducks crowding the bar. The man thinks about it and then wishes for a million bucks. He goes to the bottle and rubs it and, boom, out comes a genie, who says, ‘You have one wish.’ So he asks the barman for a drink and the barman says, ‘Before you get your drink you get to rub the magic beer bottle and make a wish.’ He asks what it is all about and the barman tells him he’ll tell him later. There is this guy who walks into a bar and notices a man 12 inches tall playing the piano. Here’s one version of the joke, from commenter Twip (1/19/09) on an xkcd forum (I’ll get to xkcd in a moment): The bartender looks at them and says, ‘What is this, a joke?'” This form has become so well known that it is the subject of at least one joke about the popularity of the joke itself: “A priest, a minister, and a rabbi walk into a bar. Ouch!”Īnother major variant involves several men walking into the bar together, often with related professions, such as “a priest, a minister and a rabbi.” In effect, this is a merger between the “bar joke” and jokes involving priests, ministers and rabbis (or Buddhist monks, etc.) in other settings.
Sometimes the unexpected happens: “A man walks into a bar. The types of variations include puns or word plays ( the man walks into a bar and pulls out a tiny piano and a 12-inch pianist, followed by any number of different punchlines or man with dyslexia walked into a bra), or replace the man with woman, a famous person, people of various occupations, animals (a duck walks into a bar, orders a beer, and tells the bartender, put it on my bill) or inanimate objects (a sandwich walks into a bar, orders a beer, and is told by the bartender, we don’t serve food here). Variants: The bar joke has a large number of variations.
It is often used by comedians and people telling jokes to their friends. This joke has gained an incredible amount of variants over the years. The initial perception of the joke is that a man is walking into a bar to have a drink, but this only lasts a few seconds as the punchline is quickly uttered. The basic syntax of this type of joke is “A man walks into a bar and ”. Wikipedia on the bar joke, with the relevant part boldfaced:Ī bar joke is a very common and basic type of joke.