Jack and Jill's Fall

Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water, but Jill fell down and Jack came tumbling down after.

(And you thought this would be a joke.)

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Explain Bear

Listen up, dumbo. You, the one who wrote this, thought that there was going to be a funny twist. Well, there isn't one, is there? It's just the nursery rhyme and then you making a comment that the reader might be expecting a joke. It's an anti-joke because it doesn't have a funny punchline. Instead, it plays with the expectation of what a joke should be. You are messing with the structure and audience expectations. But hey, at least you tried, right?

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