Timeline for Meaning of the joke A: "how much coke do you do" B: "Yes."
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| Oct 10 at 0:38 | comment | added | Bemisawa | @OwenReynolds Good point to bring up, and related in some ways, but I don't think this is the same joke. "How much coke do you do?" "Yes." still works when the first sentence is completed without being cut off. "Yes" is, effectively, used here to specify an amount... it's a stand-in for a very, very large degree. Someone described it as hyperbole, which I think is correct. The jokes you mention are similar in that they express enthusiasm through hyperbole, but the internal logic is different. | |
| Oct 9 at 22:54 | comment | added | Owen Reynolds | I think examples of "how much/yes" are where they cut off the question: "should I go to the liquor store and..." "Yes!". A similar joke is letting them talk more and then saying "you had me at liquor store". | |
| Oct 9 at 17:04 | comment | added | Joshua | @MichaelHarvey: I've seen "how much" -> "yes" in contexts where deranged mind isn't a plausible answer. It's more like it means "all the things" or "all the ways" or some such. | |
| Oct 9 at 7:46 | comment | added | Dávid Laczkó | @MichaelHarvey Yes, that's also a variant, but many times it is intentional from a sane person. | |
| Oct 9 at 7:04 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | I have seen this joke type before, and I think it is simply about the second person being so mentally affected by a drug that they cannot answer the question appropriately. How much weed do you smoke? Yeah, man! Or something wildly unrelated. A variant of some 'crazy person' jokes. | |
| Oct 9 at 6:48 | history | edited | Dávid Laczkó | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 9 at 6:38 | history | answered | Dávid Laczkó | CC BY-SA 4.0 |