generalizing a bad joke

[jwgh]

Last year, I learned a new joke:

Q: If you're an American in the kitchen, what are you in the bathroom?

A: Eur o pean!

Last night as I was half-asleep it occurred to me that this could be a representative of an entire family of jokes about placenames with similar properties. It turns out to be a little tricky, though; the only place I could think of that seemed to have any possibilities is Ukraine, and even there I couldn't come up with a joke that made any kind of sense. Can any of you do better?

Comments

[waider.livejournal.com]

It's against my better judgement to post this, but...

That telegraphs the answer rather than adding punch. "What's Delaware" belongs to the same class of jokes as "What's a Henway?" (a few pounds! ha! ha!) in that the way in which the question is posed is intended to throw off the listener. Adding "to the party" to the above makes it obvious that we're no longer talking about the state but rather punning on its name.

And now, having explained the mechanics of the joke, it is dead, dead, dead. Let that be a lesson to you.