>>>>While we're on the lighter side of puzzles: Where does an elephant hide?
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>>>That'd be the heavier side... on a cherry tree, having red eyes after a sleeples night, and wearing them as camouflage.
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>>:-)
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>>That is definately a more colorful answer than I expected, but no less correct! If this joke is something you are familiar with it would seem that either your humor has adapted to the American style or this aspect of our cultures are not as different as we might have thought...
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>Elephant jokes were very popular in late sixties, and as any other wave of jokes, repeat regularly in about seven year intervals. At the time, we had madman jokes, which eventually paved the path to the doesn't-make-sense jokes and pure Monty Python style puns ("eye for an eye, paste for teeth", "he took a look at her, and another one at five o'clock" are translatable examples). However, many of these don't work when translated, because there was no wave of this sort of jokes here, so the general public has not learned to appreciate them. For a while I kept this one as my tagline, but only got a few confused questions - and jokes which need explanation are the jokes which don't work:
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>Q: why does a train go faster in the night than on the track?
>A: because it's colder in the winter than on the outside.
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>A classic madman joke would be about a guy who's painting windows in an asylum, and two inmates consider stealing a ladder from under him, but one says "won't work - he's holding to the brush". Also, a series of madman jokes was about the exit exam, i.e. "if you pass this one, will sign that you're sane now", which probably never happened, but there were dozens of jokes about it. A classic of the kind is when they ask the guy to fill a bottomless barrel, and he replies "I'm sort of tired, you fill it half and I'll do the rest". Or, when they ask him to crawl under a line chalked on the floor, "I've grown a little fat here, could you please lift it a few inches?".

I read once in "Quant" (?) (Russian magazine for Maths) sequential jokes (puzzles), e.g each answer should continue the previous one. E.g.

1.How many steps do you need, to put a hippopotamus (?) into refrigirator?

3 steps:
1.Open regrigirator
2.Put a hippopotamus here
3.Close refrigirator

2. How many steps do you need, to put a giraffe into refrigirator?

3. Who runs quicker to the water: giraffe or hippopotamus?

etc.

Or another one:

A boy jumps from 8th stair and breaks one leg. From which stair should he jump to break two legs?