Does anybody know/get this joke?

[Maetryx]

Maetryx here,

An engineer calculates exactly how many bricks it will take to build his house. He then buys the exact number and builds the brick house. But when he is finished he has one brick left over.

But he finally just shrugs and throws the brick over his shoulder and goes on vacation.

When he is flying to his vacation spot, he looks out at the wing of the airplane and sees a buzzard, sitting on the wing with a brick in its mouth.

The end.

*shrugs*. A friend told me he heard it from a city councilor and no one there got it either. He now uses the phrase "a buzzard with a brick in its mouth" to refer to situations that don't make any sense.

 

[imported_LoKe]

An engineer is never right?

 

[Mrvile]

Maybe because the joke didn't make sense?

 

[DAGTA]

It's not 'funny'. It's a children's joke to show the unexpected. People won't expect to hear about the brick again in an unreleated joke. You know... 'catches you off guard'... that's the 'funny'.

 

[cjgallen]

The buzzard had sex with his wife.

 

[Maetryx]

Originally posted by: DAGTA
It's not 'funny'. It's a children's joke to show the unexpected. People won't expect to hear about the brick again in an unreleated joke. You know... 'catches you off guard'... that's the 'funny'.

Can you find this joke on the net somewhere? I googled and didn't find it. The presentation I made of this joke is apparently highly abbreviated, from what my friend is telling me now.

 

[thirtythree]

I've heard something similar. I don't think there's much to it.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: cjgallen
The buzzard had sex with his wife.

bwahahhahahhaha

Did you just see that Seinfeld episode too (I'm assuming you're referencing it)

 

[chuckywang]

I don't get it and I hate you.

 

[IronWing]

You're missing an important aspect of this joke. In its original form the first part of the joke is told and stopped at the point where he throws the brick. End of joke.

Then, preferably, another story teller goes into a story about the plane and the buzzard (a parrot in the version I first heard or a poodle in one posted here recently) which results in said creaure being thrown out of plane along with a cigar. The two antagonists in story are astonished to see the animal riding the wing or flying with the brick in its mouth.

Delivery is key, as is the complete separation of the two stories until the punchline is delivered.