How do you make an orphan's hands bleed?
You tell them to clap until their parents come home.
Orphan's Hands
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This is a dark joke that uses the tragic situation of an orphan to create a morbid image. The humor comes from the unexpected and cruel twist of using clapping, a common gesture of joy, to inflict pain on someone who is already suffering from loss. The punchline is unexpected because it subverts the expectation that clapping would be related to happiness or celebration.