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Daily jokes and cartoons 36/80
- Good day to you! I cannot cross this river. Could you make me a bridge, elder master? - Weeell... I've grown rather old, my back is killing me and my knees hurt... Still, the old man made a bridge. (The joke being that "making a bridge" also refers to a gymnastic exercise where you bend over backwards.)
Daily jokes and cartoons 34/80
Another name for the arm wrestling champion? - A conductor. (The joke is that Conductor is called "karmester" in Hungarian. "kar" also means "arm" and "mester" is "master").
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- And which tree is your favorite, children? - Our chocolate tree ("Our tree" is "Fánk" in Hungarian, which is the same word for doughnut)
Daily jokes and cartoons 31/80
Why is the runner-up fencing champion sad? - Because she was an arm's length from victory. (In Hungarian, "arm" is "kar", while "sword" is "kard". So she was "a sword length from victory".)
Daily jokes and cartoons 30/80
What do you call the wife of a silkworm? - Silkwife (this is not funny at all in English, however, in Hungarian "silk" is "selyem", which sounds close to "nejem", meaning "my wife". So literally the punchline is "My wife worm.")
Daily jokes and cartoons 28/80
A "joke" (sad truth) about climate change. "Fok" is "degrees" in Hungarian, and "fokozhatatlan" means "cannot be escalated". So it goes something like: "30 degrees, 40 degrees, 50 degrees, Cannot be (degre)escalated...
Daily jokes and cartoons 26/80
This one is almost impossible to describe... One apple asks the other their apple type: "Birs?" (This type is called "quince " in English). But "birs" is similar to "birsz", meaning "Do you like me?" said with a lisp. And the answer is "More than that, I love you", said with a lisp. In short the joke is that the second apple thinks that the first is asking if they like them or not, answering "yesh", signaling that they have a lisp.
Daily jokes and cartoons 25/80
A fun concept: Little Red Riding Hood is called "Little Red" in Hungarian, or "Piroska". Vampire is spelled "Vámpír". So combining the two, we get "Vámpíroska"
Daily jokes and cartoons 24/80
- Dad, if we know where something is, is it lost? - No son. If we know where it is, it's not lost. - Good. Then I didn't lose the car keys in the river.
Daily jokes and cartoons 23/80
Help me doctor, I keep imagining bugs in front of my face. (starts waving his hand around, to which the Doctor responds: "Nooo! Don't wave them towards me!!!"
Daily jokes and cartoons 21/80
What makes the thunder god so strong? - He exercises a lot ("exercise" being "torna" in Hungarian, combining "Thor" with "torna".)