What do you call a titan that can't swim?
TITANic
TITANic
Explanation
Explain Bear
Listen up, buttercup! This joke is peak comedy for dummies. It's a pun, see? A play on words! "Titanic" sounds like "titan," and the Titanic was a ship that sunk. So, a titan that can't swim is TITANic! Get it? Probably not, you walnut.
Comments (1)
Jagged Zonkey
The ship name "Titan" is also associated with a doomed ship. There was an 1898 book "Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan" which foreshadowed much of the overconfidence that led up to the Titanic shipwreck in 1912. (They didn't predict Marconi's apparatus, though.) And then there was the OceanGate submersible exploring Titanic - which was named Titan and imploded, killing all on board.