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I don't get it
Care to give me a hint?
Seahorse (See horse) Sawhorse
i have never heard of a saw horse until now
Crazy how different lives can be. Probably one of the first tools that I learned.
First tool I ever learned about was ronald reagan. Then again, I grew up in the 80s.
Why ya gotta go makin' it political?
This is Dad Jokes, not angsty GenX
here i fixed it for you: First tool I ever learned about was my dad. Then again, I grew up in a tool shed.
Ooooh, I never would have thought. We do use a horse-related word for the sawhorse in my language, but had never encountered it in English until now.
In my mind, the joke was kind of more abstract:
"the seahorse looks tense now because it's alive", "the wood horse is technically dead so it's no longer tense" (of course, if I think about it more, it makes no sense because the sawhorse is hard and therefore "tense"...)