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until 6 months ago if i heard the joke “what do call a blind dinosaur? do-you-think-he-saurus.” as seen in Jurasic Park. I would have thought about it for a second or so and then concluded that the joke made no sense and it was infact not funny. Although I still hold the belief, I can now articulate why it fails as a joke. So why am I writing about such a simple joke that took me almost 15 years to “get”? I’m writing about this joke because there’s nothing to get, the joke makes no sense at all. The answer to the joke didn’t strke me until 15 years later because the question leads me to believe that the dinosaur is blind, and, if the dinosaur is indeed blind then there’s no way he could see us so there’s no reason for me to “think he saw us.” If the question was “what do you call a partially blind dinosuar?” then it is plausable the creature might catch a glimpse of us hence making the joke understandable. No any funnier mind you… Or even “What do you call a blind Dinosaur? Doyouthinkheheardus-saurus.” Perhaps that could provide us with a viable alternative the joke.