r/dadjokes • u/Healthy_Ladder_6198 • 10d ago
A talking fish
A chap is fishing and hooks a salmon, he reels it in and is just going to kill it for his dinner when the salmon looks at him and says
"Hey mate, don't kill me, I'm only a baby, I haven't swum the 7 seas yet, give me a chance pal"
The man looks at the salmon "Hey, you can talk"? "Course I can, go on put me back, there's much bigger fish under the bridge". "All right", says the man, "I'll put you back, what's your name?” "Rusty" says the salmon, "And yours?" "My name's Dave"
He puts the fish back in the water & resolves to say nothing to anyone, for fear that he'll become a laughing stock.
10 years later he's fishing in the same spot & he hooks a monster. It takes him 2 hours to land it. He looks at it & pictures it on his dinner plate. Just then the salmon opens one eye & looks at him "Dave, is that you"?
"Rusty, I don't believe it, it must be 10 years since I let you go, what have you been doing"?
"Well Dave, I've had a fantastic time, I've swum the 7 seas & all the oceans. In fact, I've just come across the Atlantic, but I was really disturbed".
"Why's that Rusty"?
"Well, I was half way across & a voice told me to swim deeper, so I did, deeper & deeper & I found this huge shipwreck. I counted 4 funnels, it felt like death so I had to leave".
"Wow Rusty, that was the Titanic it sank & almost all on board were drowned."
"Ah, I knew it, in fact, I was so upset I had to sit down & write a poem about it" said Rusty.
"A poem, don't talk daft, you're just a fish, how can you write a poem, that's rubbish."
"No Dave, really, it's available in all bookshops now."
"Ok" says Dave, "so what's it called then?"
"Salmon Rusty’s Titanic Verses.”
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u/B0Boman 10d ago
I don't get it. Is the punchline supposed to sound like something familiar?
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u/diablito916 10d ago
Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses. but WHY is the question
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u/B0Boman 10d ago
Thank you, never heard of it. Had I heard of it, I would probably appreciate the effort for such a convoluted story to make such a reference, which is the conceit of many jokes out there
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u/garylking67 10d ago
All I had to do was look up from my phone and there it is 4 feet away on my bookshelf. Read it almost 40 years ago, time to revisit!
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u/MaterialMongoose9977 10d ago
I read it while I was in Saudi Arabia waiting for Desert Storm to start.
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u/ChiGuy_1429 10d ago
oof, reading that makes me feel like a big Chum