Current favourite jokes

[oddoneout]

Might you be referring to the JHL who is buried in Crooked Creek Baptist Church Cemetery in Jackson County, Georgia? . I'd upload a photo of his impressive headstone if I knew how.

This one - although I don't know that the headstone is that impressive so perhaps not.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63991209/john_hubert_lancaster

[LMcD]

I got caught out good and proper this morning when asked 'What English word has t at the beginning, t at the end and t in the middle'?
(It's a very common 6-letter word).

[AuntDaisy]

I got caught out good and proper this morning when asked 'What German English word has t at the beginning, t at the end and t in the middle'?
(It's a very common 6-letter word).

Tatort?

Or a tomtit titbit in a teapot?

[vinteuil]

teapot?

... when I first encountered the riddle it was in the slightly easier form

"what word has t at the beginning, t at the end and has t in it"

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[Roslynmuse]

And there I was thinking of Frankie Howerd...

[LMcD]

Tatort?

Or a tomtit titbit in a teapot?

Only one of these has tea in the middle.

[Pulcinella]

How about a teachest?

[LMcD]

How about a teachest?

Yes, but it doesn't have 6 letters (cf . post 4742).

[Pulcinella]

Yes, but it doesn't have 6 letters (cf . post 4742).

Ah...as that was an edit, I thought it was a hint to a solution.

And in a Pedants' Paradise vein, the WORD doesn't have t in the middle, but the object (the teapot) might.

[johncorrigan]

Yes, but it doesn't have 6 letters (cf . post 4742).

Correct, L. It has only two letters.

[AuntDaisy]

Ah...as that was an edit, I thought it was a hint to a solution.

And in a Pedants' Paradise vein, the WORD doesn't have t in the middle, but the object (the teapot) might.

How about a Tee Pot?

[LMcD]

Correct, L. It has only two letters.

Ah yes - 'Transmogrification is a very long word - how do you spell it?'
Congratulations to Aunt Daisy for brewing up the correct answer.. This is probably one of those 'tea'sers which works better when it's spoken rather than written.

[vinteuil]

Congratulations to Aunt Daisy for brewing up the correct answer.. This is probably one of those 'tea'sers which works better when it's spoken rather than written.

... and linguistic philosophers will recognize that this puzzle hinges on the distinction between the 'signifier' (the word, and the letter T which it contains) and the 'signified' (the thing, and the TEA which it contains)

( ... as Pulcinella has already pointed out in # 4749 above )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signified_and_signifier

I need a cuppa...




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[Nick Armstrong]

[LMcD]

" I cannot sleep in this hotel. That's the problem with Rome. The Vespas go on all night"
"I know. Those Gregorian monks never know when to stop."