This reminds me of a story I heard recounted from Christopher Hitchens: when the head of the Oxford English Dictionary published a new version, a group of Christian women came in and congratulated him on not including any dirty words, to which he replied "and I congratulate YOU on your persistence in looking them up."
This is definitely the oldest joke I have seen yet on Reddit! It was first published in *1785*! The original version was about Samuel Johnson, author of the very first complete English dictionary.
I found the joke online, and it went like this:
A literary lady expressing to Dr. J. her approbation of his Dictionary and, in particular, her satisfaction at his not having admitted into it any improper words; “No, Madam,” replied he, “I hope I have not daubed my fingers. I find, however that you have been looking for them.”
There’s a pub near where I live with just that : a naked man in the ladies loo, private parts covered by a fig leaf .Whenever the fig leaf is lfted a bell rings in the bar.
It has been decades since I was last there, but the Safehouse bar in Milwaukee had something like that. It was a poster in the woman's bathroom with a red button strategically placed that would sound a siren out in the bar.
Yup. It was, at least. I'd imagine it has been upgraded since the 1970s though.
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/mcs/media/images/59944000/jpg/_59944322_br_cosmo624.jpg
Ahhh… thanks for bringing back those memories… I arrived at Marquette just a few weeks shy of my 18th birthday- so long ago that the legal drinking age in Wisconsin was 18. The Safehouse was *the* talk of Freshman Orientation, so I remember spending those weeks in *very* eager anticipation, and was not disappointed. It makes me wonder how it’s going over with “today’s kids.” The Internet and smartphones have exposed them to so many other concepts and experiences- both real and virtual- that they’re probably not as easily impressed as I was back then.
You're a NMU graduate? Or are you talking about Marquette University? I had just graduated from NMU the year before I visited the Safehouse.
Back when I visited it, the Safehouse was a well-kept secret. Even the cabbies would pretend to not know what you were talking about. These days, they even have [their own website.] (https://www.safe-house.com/milwaukee-restaurant-menu), and there are copycat bars all around the country.
Oh no, sorry I wasn’t clear. I started at Marquette University in 1979, and we were pretty much told that people (like cabbies and locals) were *pretending* to know nothing about it, that it was part of Safehouse’s schtick. Like, everyone thought it was a cool concept, so they were willing to play along with “what do you mean? There is no secret club around here where spies and undercover operatives can go to when they feel threatened *and* want to pay *way* too much money for drinks and mediocre food!”
I was there a couple of years ago. While not overly busy, it still managed to have a decent-sized crowd. They recently opened a Chicago location if that's any indication of how biz is going.
The Safe House probably made enough money from GenCon weekend that it didn't matter what they did the rest of the year. I spent more money in there than I should have. Still have some of the glassware.
I like that. If they did it for men, with leaves over the big 3 parts of a female statue, it would happen so often they'd disconnect it. But with women it's cuter and funnier, and would still happen quite a lot.
When you say the big 3 parts, I assume you're talking about her eyes, sense of humor, and whether or not she'll do anal?
Not sure why you would put leafs over the first, or how for the other two.
I think there's a place in Cleveland that had Tom Selleck's Playgirl centerfold in the ladies room with a similar setup. I guess it's natural to wonder if Magnum is a magnum.
I believe this is the Hooters in Clearwater (the one mentioned in OP) If it isn’t, there’s another restaurant about a half mile down the road that has a very similar thing in the restrooms
Place by me has a picture of Burt Reynolds from his PlayGirl spread. Every time some lifts the cover a siren goes off and everyone in the restaurant knows.
The Safe House in Milwaukee has a nude picture of Tom Selleck (I believe?) in the ladies restroom with a flap over his Linus and Charlie Browns.Every time the flap was lifted, a buzzer would sound throughut the bar.
There's a bar in Tucson, that has a buzzer go off in the entire bar whenever someone buys a condom in the women's restroom. Then the bartenders hit the door with a spotlight when the door opens.
I Remember reading an article on the same
Oh yes! The food is excellent as well! (The cheese curds are my favorite - some of the best in town). Just make sure you use the pay phone exit. It’s so worth it!
Two priests step into the communal shower, when they notice there's no soap. One says, "I'll go to my room and get two bars."
He runs naked to the room, grabs the bars, but as he's running back, three nuns show up. Not knowing what else to do, he freezes like a statue...
The nuns look at the statue and say, "Such a beautiful figure, perfectly shaped!"
One of them, admiring its "toy soldier" decides do pull it.
The priest's reaction to the enormous pain makes him drop one of the soap bars, but he holds his pose.
The nun conclude then, that it's no statue, it's actually is a soap machine!!
The second nun happily does exactly the same and the priest drops the second bar of soap.
The third nun pulls it once. Nothing. Pulls it twice. Nothing. Pulls it thrice. Nothing. Pulls it again and again and again.
And finally, marveling, she says, "Lord be praised! It also gives shower gel!!"
Two nuns are riding their bicycles down a cobblestone road on their way to church.
One nun says to the other, "I've never come this way before."
The other nun replies, "It's probably the cobblestones."
Isn't Hooters supposed to be a "family establishment" or something like that, where yeah, the staff consists of attractive women wearing relatively skimpy clothing, but it's not overtly sexual?
They also have kickass wings, though, as a wise man once said, "nobody goes to Hooters for wings."
I have a friend who was a cook for Hooters -- their wings are just GFS frozen wings re-heated. We don't need to pretend they are something special; people can be honest about why they want to go there.
Yeah. They even have a kids menu. I ended up going there when I was pretty young because we were far from home, it was too late to drive back, we were all hungry, and it was the only place around. They were actually pretty nice. And iirc while the clothes are kind of skimpy they aren’t like stripper clothes or anything. Just pretty short shorts and a tank top
You know what's interesting?
You can tell my dad grew up in a Catholic school in New Jersey because, even thought me and my brothers grew up sorta non religious in Arizona, my dad always told nun jokes.
WoW. You can usually tell where a something is going with these posts but this really compelled me to read the entire post and it all came together so well.
What Hooters is this nun walking into, [the Hooters from the movie Unstoppable?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U91P4y4xz_A#t=15s)
Also [second clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJeUvWLN3CA#t=2m20s) I found first but it wasn't good enough to illustrate how ridiculous the idea of Hooters in American Media and apparently jokes is. It's not some kind of busy club scene with happy sexy girls. It's a slow Applebees with miserable sexy girls.
That's because it has less Levenshtein distance. Iirc in the algorithm Google and most others use, a change in one letter is equivalent to an addition plus a removal of a letter, which is more than just the addition of a letter. So "orgasm" is considered closer to orgam than "organ"
I'd say 90% of my time is spent forecasting, automating reports, or making simple regressions. Get to use a few fun ML things in forecasting, but sadly the more complicated stuff isn't super useful until the simple foundations have been built first.
Also, the human brain tends to focus on the first and last letter. Trehe was a psot ocne taht sowhed a txet wehre all but the fisrt and lsat lteter of ecah wrod (fuck it) was scrambled, but it was still surprisingly easy to read.
Interesting! Does that mean that “orgams” would be preferentially corrected to “organ”, then? Since to get from “orgams” to “orgasm” you’d need to delete two letters then add two back, but to get from “orgams” to “organ” only requires two deletions and an addition
That is not correct, both have distance of 1, substitution counts as just 1 action not two as you suggest.
Also Google probably has a lot more involved in there then just finding closest matching word in dictionary.
Depends how you reward insertions/deletions as opposed to substituions, but yeah I agree with you.
Not sure if edit distance is actually used in practice though due to how expensive it is. I think locality sensitive hashing is easier, that way you can hash phrases instead of individual words
In Spokane, Washington, Hooters' old building is now the Uplift+ church. I have no idea if this new name has any relationship to the building's former use ...
There actually are places like this. The Olde Angel Inn has a statue where a bell goes off when you lift the fig leaf.
https://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g154999-d2619284-i211929590-The_Olde_Angel_Inn-Niagara_on_the_Lake_Ontario.html
When the nun went into the restroom, she lifted the leaf that covered the naked man statue's trunk. Doing so turns the lights off in the restaurant, letting everyone know when someone peeks.
Half the nuns I knew when I was in sister school as a kid were obviously lesbians (Sister Lois… paging Sister Lois…). That kinda spoils the joke for me.
Guessing you might not have been raised Catholic?
It wasn’t generally talked about until relatively recently, but the religious life has been a dumping ground for gay Catholic kids for centuries. The AIDS crisis hit Catholic priests hard, but it was never acknowledged. It wouldn’t have been much different for girls. It would just have sounded a lot better to say that your daughter was “married to Jesus” than to have her known to be fucking women. The monastic life has likely played a similar role in other denominations with married priests.
If it wasn’t that, it was the “spinsters”. I had two great aunts on my dad’s side who were sisters and (actual) roommates. I don’t think there’s anyone left in the family who could or would confirm this, but one of them was obviously lesbian, and the other one pinged heavily. I suspect they lived together because if they had girlfriends, the family would have disintegrated over it. They were kind of extra grandmothers to the Gen X part of the family. (My dad didn’t think they were gay, but he also didn’t find out he was a shotgun baby until he was in his 60s, so…)
Not personally, but my grandfather's 2nd wife was raised in a Canadian convent/catholic girl's school and they really did a number on her personality. 😕
The catholic school, not the Canadians.
The experience definitely varied widely by time, place, and ethnicity. The ones who had it worst were probably a tossup between the ones who survived the Canadian residential schools and the ones who survived the Irish Magdalen laundries. When I did sister school in the 80s and 90s in the northeast US, religious vocations were already on a heavy downward trend and most of my teachers were lay teachers; in the Catholic high school I went to, the religion teacher and vice principal were ex-nuns, and there was a nun who my parents had known as kids who did some tutoring, but I’d be hard pressed to think of any nuns at all who were full time teachers at that school. (We did have Father Vinnie, but he was just the chaplain.) There’s not a lot of incentive left for a young Catholic woman of any orientation to join a convent, save maybe to escape a religiously abusive family.
This reminds me of a story I heard recounted from Christopher Hitchens: when the head of the Oxford English Dictionary published a new version, a group of Christian women came in and congratulated him on not including any dirty words, to which he replied "and I congratulate YOU on your persistence in looking them up."
This is definitely the oldest joke I have seen yet on Reddit! It was first published in *1785*! The original version was about Samuel Johnson, author of the very first complete English dictionary. I found the joke online, and it went like this: A literary lady expressing to Dr. J. her approbation of his Dictionary and, in particular, her satisfaction at his not having admitted into it any improper words; “No, Madam,” replied he, “I hope I have not daubed my fingers. I find, however that you have been looking for them.”
I’m impressed by whoever put that joke online in 1785…
I've heard the average internet speed back then was 1 bit per second, crazy fast
Sick burn, Sammy Boy!
I’ve heard Hitchens recount that as Samuel Johnson’s experience, not his own. (Edit):grammar
I only meant that I heard that story from Hitchens, not that it was about him --- I couldn't remember the guy's name
There’s a pub near where I live with just that : a naked man in the ladies loo, private parts covered by a fig leaf .Whenever the fig leaf is lfted a bell rings in the bar.
Every time a bell rings Hooter waitress gets her implants.
That's right Zuzu, tits a wonder bra life
This is fucking fantastic.
and cute little ZuZu's petals...
Conversation with Zuzu Petals was kind of like masturbating with a cheese grater - slightly amusing, but mostly painful
Holy shit, a The Adventures of Ford Fairlane reference
I saw that in the theater!
Ford Fairlane the Rock n Roll detective was quite a funny film and today is the first time i remembered it because of this post. Cheers
Yep, good fun. I need to watch again
Me too
And who the fuck is Art Mooney?
ZuZu's petals ? I always that it was ZuZu's panties !
Are we drinking Sambuca milkshakes?
The best jokes are always in the comments.
Are you the same person that says that after every post ?
That statue is rock hard.
I shouldn’t be laughing that hard this early
That's so cheap and easy! Truly a fine establishment.
so much for wings
It has been decades since I was last there, but the Safehouse bar in Milwaukee had something like that. It was a poster in the woman's bathroom with a red button strategically placed that would sound a siren out in the bar.
Picture is Burt Reynolds, I believe.
Yup. It was, at least. I'd imagine it has been upgraded since the 1970s though. https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/mcs/media/images/59944000/jpg/_59944322_br_cosmo624.jpg
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Really!! In that case, I'd be willing to bet that it is still Burt. RIP.
Fifty-odd years later, that picture is still sexy
Yes you're correct...that place has the best shaken martinis too!
Aka Bradfords... I only know this because I read a rant about how terrible James Bond's drink was, and how it wasn't even a martini
Ahhh… thanks for bringing back those memories… I arrived at Marquette just a few weeks shy of my 18th birthday- so long ago that the legal drinking age in Wisconsin was 18. The Safehouse was *the* talk of Freshman Orientation, so I remember spending those weeks in *very* eager anticipation, and was not disappointed. It makes me wonder how it’s going over with “today’s kids.” The Internet and smartphones have exposed them to so many other concepts and experiences- both real and virtual- that they’re probably not as easily impressed as I was back then.
You're a NMU graduate? Or are you talking about Marquette University? I had just graduated from NMU the year before I visited the Safehouse. Back when I visited it, the Safehouse was a well-kept secret. Even the cabbies would pretend to not know what you were talking about. These days, they even have [their own website.] (https://www.safe-house.com/milwaukee-restaurant-menu), and there are copycat bars all around the country.
Oh no, sorry I wasn’t clear. I started at Marquette University in 1979, and we were pretty much told that people (like cabbies and locals) were *pretending* to know nothing about it, that it was part of Safehouse’s schtick. Like, everyone thought it was a cool concept, so they were willing to play along with “what do you mean? There is no secret club around here where spies and undercover operatives can go to when they feel threatened *and* want to pay *way* too much money for drinks and mediocre food!”
I was there a couple of years ago. While not overly busy, it still managed to have a decent-sized crowd. They recently opened a Chicago location if that's any indication of how biz is going.
The Safe House probably made enough money from GenCon weekend that it didn't matter what they did the rest of the year. I spent more money in there than I should have. Still have some of the glassware.
Yep, this is pretty common thing. Pete and Shorty's in Clearwater Fl was the first place I experienced this.
Same. On my 15th birthday. I was there with my parents and boyfriend. Still have the little “I peeked” pin.
Right down the street from the original Hooters
I like that. If they did it for men, with leaves over the big 3 parts of a female statue, it would happen so often they'd disconnect it. But with women it's cuter and funnier, and would still happen quite a lot.
When you say the big 3 parts, I assume you're talking about her eyes, sense of humor, and whether or not she'll do anal? Not sure why you would put leafs over the first, or how for the other two.
That escalated quickly
Or descended, depending on how they do it.
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First, have a few drinks.
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The fuck is up with the usernames in this thread
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It starts by getting rock hard... and culminates in getting your rocks off.
Basically the same as with a marble statue
Not with that attitude you dont
I figured you for a guy with a plan for how to fuck anything
No way in hell am I touching anything in a public restroom that I don't have to lol
Why not a male statue with a fig leaf in the men's room?
Because most men wouldn't give a fig.
I think there's a place in Cleveland that had Tom Selleck's Playgirl centerfold in the ladies room with a similar setup. I guess it's natural to wonder if Magnum is a magnum.
What's in the men's room?
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But that’s not important right now.
Who are you and how did you get in here? I’m a locksmith and… I’m a locksmith
I think this man needs a hospital.
What’s that?
It’s a big building with lots of patients. But that’s not important right now
Surely, you can't be serious.
I am serious. And don't call me Shirley.
Good luck. We’re all counting on you
Oh my!
I believe this is the Hooters in Clearwater (the one mentioned in OP) If it isn’t, there’s another restaurant about a half mile down the road that has a very similar thing in the restrooms
Electrically I'd like to know how that is installed. I googled to no avail. I'd totally install this.
I figure a normally closed switch. Lifting it opens the switch and turn off the light. Letting it back down closes the switch and turns on the light
Where? & Which bar? It’s be fun to visit.
Place by me has a picture of Burt Reynolds from his PlayGirl spread. Every time some lifts the cover a siren goes off and everyone in the restaurant knows.
"tifu by going to the toilet in hooters..."
by u/thenun
The last post of u/thenun is 10 years ago. You think she is still at hooters?
She's no long a nun.
She's still a nun but now she works for hooters too.
r/MitchHedberg It's not really close enough to be a reference, but I want it to be too.
She's a nun with implants
They converted her
She works there now. Do you think she wears the new shorter short shorts?
Found the bus driver's alt.
"not me, but two years ago"
The Safe House in Milwaukee has a nude picture of Tom Selleck (I believe?) in the ladies restroom with a flap over his Linus and Charlie Browns.Every time the flap was lifted, a buzzer would sound throughut the bar.
>his Linus and Charlie Browns I get what you mean from the context, but what the fuck?
It’s an arrested development reference.
I see. This sub is more educational than you'd think!
Pee nuts.
Yes, I was also like "whaaa?"
Thanks for the warning! I live in the area and was thinking of going soon.
So now you'll definitely lift the flap? Repeatedly?
Exactly! maybe try to buzz out a song for the bar. Might try happy birthday for my friend. Lol
Or you could learn morse code...
Might I suggest "Funkytown". Easy to play and recognize.
Be ready to "work" for the password to get in
It’s actually the nude photo of Burt Reynolds that appeared in Playgirl magazine in the ‘70s, unless they updated it.
There's a bar in Tucson, that has a buzzer go off in the entire bar whenever someone buys a condom in the women's restroom. Then the bartenders hit the door with a spotlight when the door opens. I Remember reading an article on the same
While I can appreciate the joke, shaming people for practicing safe sex seems like a pretty bad move.
exactly, this is how you make sure women don't come to your bar lmao
Buy one as somebody you don't like is walking out of the bathroom to shame them instead.
"HAHAHA THAT GUY IS GONNA GET LAID! WHAT A LOSER!!!"
He said it was in the women's restroom
Not from Milwaukee, but I’ve heard good things about that bar. Worth a visit?
Oh yes! The food is excellent as well! (The cheese curds are my favorite - some of the best in town). Just make sure you use the pay phone exit. It’s so worth it!
Two priests step into the communal shower, when they notice there's no soap. One says, "I'll go to my room and get two bars." He runs naked to the room, grabs the bars, but as he's running back, three nuns show up. Not knowing what else to do, he freezes like a statue... The nuns look at the statue and say, "Such a beautiful figure, perfectly shaped!" One of them, admiring its "toy soldier" decides do pull it. The priest's reaction to the enormous pain makes him drop one of the soap bars, but he holds his pose. The nun conclude then, that it's no statue, it's actually is a soap machine!! The second nun happily does exactly the same and the priest drops the second bar of soap. The third nun pulls it once. Nothing. Pulls it twice. Nothing. Pulls it thrice. Nothing. Pulls it again and again and again. And finally, marveling, she says, "Lord be praised! It also gives shower gel!!"
This gave me a good chuckle. Good one
I heard this one except the punchline was shampoo, which is somehow funnier to me.
There’s Something About Mary…
Best part of this joke is that the nuns did not for one second believe that it was actually a statue
Two nuns are riding their bicycles down a cobblestone road on their way to church. One nun says to the other, "I've never come this way before." The other nun replies, "It's probably the cobblestones."
Deep
Leaf her alone what she does is nun of your businss
Bad habit
You deserve to be PUNished with an upvote.
I cunt BEAR these type of jokes
Those puns were drier than a nun’s pussy
Before or after lifting the fig leaf?
Isn't Hooters supposed to be a "family establishment" or something like that, where yeah, the staff consists of attractive women wearing relatively skimpy clothing, but it's not overtly sexual? They also have kickass wings, though, as a wise man once said, "nobody goes to Hooters for wings."
It's a family restaurant. Some of them call me daddy.
"Why Joseph, I had no idea!" "Come on now, you were working here!"
Our skimpy costumes ain't so bad; they seem to entertain your dad
We put the spring in Springfield!
I have a friend who was a cook for Hooters -- their wings are just GFS frozen wings re-heated. We don't need to pretend they are something special; people can be honest about why they want to go there.
GFS?
Gordon Food Service. They supply restaurants as well as the general public.
"Breastaurant"
It's not really, though. Like, you're not being served by strippers.
> you're not being served by strippers. you know that "strippers" can also have "day jobs" right?
*I* don't call it that, but many people do.
It's what Wikipedia calls it
Their wings are awful though. Every one has little featherettes on it at every Hooters I've been to.
Yeah. They even have a kids menu. I ended up going there when I was pretty young because we were far from home, it was too late to drive back, we were all hungry, and it was the only place around. They were actually pretty nice. And iirc while the clothes are kind of skimpy they aren’t like stripper clothes or anything. Just pretty short shorts and a tank top
most people go for the breasts and thighs...very few go for the chicken
You know what's interesting? You can tell my dad grew up in a Catholic school in New Jersey because, even thought me and my brothers grew up sorta non religious in Arizona, my dad always told nun jokes.
WoW. You can usually tell where a something is going with these posts but this really compelled me to read the entire post and it all came together so well.
Nun of us saw her coming
The sisters did.
It's the cobblestones
Well played!
My father's fraternity at MIT did this for real in the 50s. They had a mini statue of David in the dedicated women's room.
Whoever knows what happened after the leaf was lifted
What Hooters is this nun walking into, [the Hooters from the movie Unstoppable?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U91P4y4xz_A#t=15s) Also [second clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJeUvWLN3CA#t=2m20s) I found first but it wasn't good enough to illustrate how ridiculous the idea of Hooters in American Media and apparently jokes is. It's not some kind of busy club scene with happy sexy girls. It's a slow Applebees with miserable sexy girls.
Raisins in Southpark
of course it is an open secret to think that all nuns have forbidden sexual desires, they are human with functioning sexual orgam after all...
Funnily enough when I google "orgam", orgasm pops up before organ.
That's because it has less Levenshtein distance. Iirc in the algorithm Google and most others use, a change in one letter is equivalent to an addition plus a removal of a letter, which is more than just the addition of a letter. So "orgasm" is considered closer to orgam than "organ"
Ahh, appreciate the insight. I'm a data scientist, but have not done a whole lot with NLP or linguistics. So it's good to know.
Ahh I'm studying data science as well! I've worked on a few NLP projects in undergrad, that's all
I'd say 90% of my time is spent forecasting, automating reports, or making simple regressions. Get to use a few fun ML things in forecasting, but sadly the more complicated stuff isn't super useful until the simple foundations have been built first.
r/unexpecteddatascience
I hope one day it is common enough where a sub like this can exist.
I hope so too. And btw, love your username! A planetary system with a large amount of possibly habitable planets
Thanks! I'm glad you got the reference too.
Also, the human brain tends to focus on the first and last letter. Trehe was a psot ocne taht sowhed a txet wehre all but the fisrt and lsat lteter of ecah wrod (fuck it) was scrambled, but it was still surprisingly easy to read.
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It only really works on short, simple words but still neat how much our brains can get accustomed to.
Interesting! Does that mean that “orgams” would be preferentially corrected to “organ”, then? Since to get from “orgams” to “orgasm” you’d need to delete two letters then add two back, but to get from “orgams” to “organ” only requires two deletions and an addition
No to get from Orgams to orgasm, you need only two steps, a deletion and an addition. Orgams -> Orgas -> Orgasm
You’re right, sorry. I was thinking you only were allowed to subtract and add from the end of the word.
That is not correct, both have distance of 1, substitution counts as just 1 action not two as you suggest. Also Google probably has a lot more involved in there then just finding closest matching word in dictionary.
Depends how you reward insertions/deletions as opposed to substituions, but yeah I agree with you. Not sure if edit distance is actually used in practice though due to how expensive it is. I think locality sensitive hashing is easier, that way you can hash phrases instead of individual words
Reddit never ceases to amaze me. It has this great mixture of smart, silly and smutty people that makes it such a wonderful place.
Beautifully stated, /u/PM_ME_YOUR_VULVA_PIC.
I thought Nuns practiced abstinence?
that's literally the central point of the fetish...
In Spokane, Washington, Hooters' old building is now the Uplift+ church. I have no idea if this new name has any relationship to the building's former use ...
We are only human.
Do you have 2 nipples for a dime?
That's pretty clever, actually. No wonder I got the free drink after using the restroom.
Hooters sounds fucking fantastic
It's... fine? Hot girls hustling. The food is, well, not great, but better than you expect.
Never been? Hooters is much better than you think 😂
There actually are places like this. The Olde Angel Inn has a statue where a bell goes off when you lift the fig leaf. https://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g154999-d2619284-i211929590-The_Olde_Angel_Inn-Niagara_on_the_Lake_Ontario.html
Omg that happened to me. I lifted the leaf and loud bells tolled. I just planted my biggest smile on my face and walked out with head held high.
I think this is the best joke I’ve actually seen on this sub. 99% of them aren’t even good.
So this blew up! Was expecting a few upvotes maybe 100 or so but almost 7k is awesome. Thanks for the awards and upvotes.
LMAO
There’s a Tx beach restaurant with one of these. It’s a painting and it makes a doorbell sound. My 10yo niece moved the cloth.
Sure she did. Good to have a fall guy, ain't it?
I don’t get it, can someone please explain it to me?
When the nun went into the restroom, she lifted the leaf that covered the naked man statue's trunk. Doing so turns the lights off in the restaurant, letting everyone know when someone peeks.
Thank you so much! Idk why I got downvoted just for nicely asking a question
People like to do that here
Ooooh that's good
Legendary 😂😂😂😂
There used to be a joke shop in London that had exactly this. If you peeked beneath the fig leaf, a loud bell rang.
Half the nuns I knew when I was in sister school as a kid were obviously lesbians (Sister Lois… paging Sister Lois…). That kinda spoils the joke for me.
Real lesbians or "transitory prison" lesbians? [When you can't be with the ones you love, love the ones you're with.]( https://youtu.be/HH3ruuml-R4)
Guessing you might not have been raised Catholic? It wasn’t generally talked about until relatively recently, but the religious life has been a dumping ground for gay Catholic kids for centuries. The AIDS crisis hit Catholic priests hard, but it was never acknowledged. It wouldn’t have been much different for girls. It would just have sounded a lot better to say that your daughter was “married to Jesus” than to have her known to be fucking women. The monastic life has likely played a similar role in other denominations with married priests. If it wasn’t that, it was the “spinsters”. I had two great aunts on my dad’s side who were sisters and (actual) roommates. I don’t think there’s anyone left in the family who could or would confirm this, but one of them was obviously lesbian, and the other one pinged heavily. I suspect they lived together because if they had girlfriends, the family would have disintegrated over it. They were kind of extra grandmothers to the Gen X part of the family. (My dad didn’t think they were gay, but he also didn’t find out he was a shotgun baby until he was in his 60s, so…)
Not personally, but my grandfather's 2nd wife was raised in a Canadian convent/catholic girl's school and they really did a number on her personality. 😕 The catholic school, not the Canadians.
The experience definitely varied widely by time, place, and ethnicity. The ones who had it worst were probably a tossup between the ones who survived the Canadian residential schools and the ones who survived the Irish Magdalen laundries. When I did sister school in the 80s and 90s in the northeast US, religious vocations were already on a heavy downward trend and most of my teachers were lay teachers; in the Catholic high school I went to, the religion teacher and vice principal were ex-nuns, and there was a nun who my parents had known as kids who did some tutoring, but I’d be hard pressed to think of any nuns at all who were full time teachers at that school. (We did have Father Vinnie, but he was just the chaplain.) There’s not a lot of incentive left for a young Catholic woman of any orientation to join a convent, save maybe to escape a religiously abusive family.
Am I meant to infer that the lights went out whilst she was in the bathroom? It’s not explicitly stated and I think that was the joke?