Ideally, inside it would have a men’s sauna.

  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    3 days ago

    Your going to have to help me with this one. I think I’m mentally pronouncing something wrong.

      • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        53·
        3 days ago

        Still don’t get it.

        I mean I think I get what DadOP is going for, it just doesn’t work at all.

        Something about how it’s all pronounced. But it doesn’t make any kind of joke, pun, or anything.

          • undrwater@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            3 days ago

            The problem is it requires certain foreknowledge. Rare at that.

            It’s like me telling my Linux nerd jokes to my family.

            • ZDL@lazysoci.alEnglish
              2·
              3 days ago

              So can someone explain it in detail so that we poor ignoramuses (ignorami?) can at least figure out what the joke is supposed to actually be? Because even with the “explanation” above it … I don’t see what is intended to be funny.

              I guess this is an “explain like I’m five” moment.

              • undrwater@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                3 days ago

                Mens sana (men’s sauna) means “healthy mind”.

                “Inside the healthy body is a healthy mind.”

                Word play explained unravels the joke, and leaves it flat.

                • bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
                  1·
                  23 hours ago

                  Okay, I get it now, and it is, in fact, a) a bad joke because it only sort of works if you pronounce “sauna” wrong (or if you think sauna is pronounced exactly like sana) and b) badly delivered because the punch line is separate from the joke, making it seem like an added comment, without which the joke would also work (but it doesn’t). The translation what corpore sano means is completely superfluous, it doesn’t contribute to the joke and thus only misleads the audience about what could be the funny part. Explaining is not what made it bad, it was bad from the start

                • ZDL@lazysoci.alEnglish
                  1·
                  3 days ago

                  It always does, but it at least lets the puzzled figure it out. (You might want to put that in a spoiler, though.)

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    71·
    3 days ago

    I needed the explanation, and totally agree that this is funny as hell.

    However, by virtue of the nicheness and need of latin, I don’t think it’s a good dad joke. It’s a multilingual pun, and those tend to fall outside of the level of accessibility a dad can reasonably expect to pull off.