Timeline for What does "I made him a cake" mean?
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| Jan 9, 2019 at 9:20 | comment | added | mcalex | And of course the joke works in reverse in situations where 'make you/him an X' normally means turn you/him into X but the meaning is changed to 'create an X that I can call mine': à la Rocky Horror | |
| Jan 8, 2019 at 16:06 | comment | added | Viktor Mellgren | @MikeTheLiar, the joke has been told to Dalai Lama, but then it was pizza youtube.com/watch?v=GogjFO8GNEo | |
| Jan 8, 2019 at 1:48 | comment | added | Alcamtar | Other ways to say the second interpretion: I made a cake of him, I made a cake from him, I made a cake out of him. | |
| Jan 7, 2019 at 21:03 | comment | added | snetch | Or the Cyanide and Happiness comic about a balloon animal: explosm.net/comics/1675 | |
| Jan 7, 2019 at 20:11 | comment | added | User1000547 | And of course, "The Dalai Lama walks up to a hot dog cart and says 'Make me one with everything'" | |
| Jan 7, 2019 at 20:10 | comment | added | User1000547 | To add on to the pile of jokes using this ambiguity - "Can you make me a coffee?" "Poof, you're a coffee!" | |
| Jan 7, 2019 at 18:22 | comment | added | Lambie | I made him into a cake is not probable for that, it is that. | |
| Jan 7, 2019 at 17:19 | comment | added | user68033 | @EldritchWarlord (For fun) worth also noting the most common pun/variant for that purpose "I want to make a cake with him" - in a writing where the reader knows the true intention of the "baker". | |
| Jan 7, 2019 at 17:05 | comment | added | Muzer | Reminds me of the early days of Siri when it was truly useless: "Hey Siri, call me an ambulance!" "OK, from now on I will call you 'An Ambulance'". | |
| Jan 7, 2019 at 16:59 | comment | added | Barmar | Don't ask a witch to make you a cake. | |
| Jan 7, 2019 at 16:33 | comment | added | JonM | It reminds me of that old joke: Did you hear about the magic tractor? It went down the lane and turned into a field. | |
| Jan 7, 2019 at 16:09 | comment | added | EldritchWarlord | Though it bears mentioning that "I made him a cake" could have the same meaning as "I made him into a cake", if someone wanted to hide their cannibalism while still being truthful for example. | |
| Jan 7, 2019 at 13:56 | history | answered | Werrf | CC BY-SA 4.0 |