What do you do with an elephant with 3 balls? Walk him and pitch to the rhino
can anyone explain!?
update:
iv just read some baseball definitions. am i right in thinking to "walk" means pitch 4 lame pitches known as "balls" so if the elephant has already had 3 "balls" you wouldnt pitch a good throw, youd force it to walk by pitching a fourth ball and then start fresh with the rhino!? yea!?
That was always such a strange joke. I think it was supposed to sort of work off a baseball reference, but it was supposed to be intentionally bad that even Topper didn't get it.
shareThis is a great joke if you understand baseball. But I think it's intentially out of place and obscure to make it more ridiculous.
In baseball, if a pitcher is up-against an exceptionally good batter, then the pitcher can choose to intentionally 'walk' the batter. To do this the pitcher would throw 4 bad pitches outside the strike zone, known as 'balls', which the batter cannot possibly hit. This then forces the good batter to walk to 1st base, and brings up the next batter, who is generally known to be worse at batting. The tactic means the good batter does not get a change to hit the ball, and obviously stops the oposition gaining better position, scoring points, or hitting homeruns.
In terms of the joke, you are meant to think about an elephant with 3 testicles. However, in baseball terms, an elephant would obviously be a good batter with such a big trunk! Therefore, you would intentially walk the elephant to avoid him hitting the ball, and then throw normal pitches to the rhino, who is obviously a terrible batter thanks to his small rigid horn.
I think the poor quality of the joke is made up for my the person telling it!
'Gunz gunz gunz!'
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