Over or Through

The joke plays on the common saying of something going "over your head", meaning you didn't understand it. The author then corrects themselves to say "through," hinting that the joke was so bad it went straight through the other person without being noticed. It's a self-deprecating way of admitting the joke probably wasn't good.

• Head
• Understanding
• Twin Towers
• Comedy
• Misunderstanding
• Audience

• Have I told you the joke about the airplane? Ah, forget it, it probably just went over your head.
• See, I was always told puns are funny. But I can see now they aren't punny.
• I tried out some puns to make people laugh, but no pun in ten did.
• Today there was a line to punch me. Yeah, that was the punch line.