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DeplorableKurt t1_j4n3lmg wrote

I don’t get it

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enderverse87 t1_j4n3vr9 wrote

It's a variation of an older joke. The implication is that "tomato slicer" is a job position.

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HillaryRClinton t1_j4n6zku wrote

Dish washer might work better.

There is no one job of doing nothing but slicing tomatoes.

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RedditVince t1_j4q7thv wrote

Oh I am sure there are... Think the canning industry... :)

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Greedoscolddeadhands t1_j4qj5m1 wrote

This joke can be inclusive quite easily, as well.

“I got fired for sticking my duck in the dish washer.”

“What happened to the dishwasher?”

“He got fired too.”

See, inclusive.

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NotStaggy t1_j4n632f wrote

Without this nobody would understand. I Handnt a clue

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enderverse87 t1_j4n6vei wrote

Yeah. The phrasing doesn't work as well as the original joke.

>Bill worked in a pickle factory. He had been employed there for a number of years when he came home one day to confess to his wife that he had a terrible compulsion. He had an urge to stick his penis into the pickle slicer. His wife suggested that he should see a sex therapist to talk about it, but Bill indicated that he'd be too embarrassed. He vowed to overcome the compulsion on his own. One day a few weeks later, Bill came home absolutely ashen. His wife could see at once that something was seriously wrong.

>"What's wrong, Bill?" she asked.

>"Do you remember that I told you how I had this tremendous urge to put my penis into the pickle slicer?"

>"Oh, Bill, you didn't."

>"Yes, I did."

> "My God, Bill, what happened?"

> "I got fired."

>"No, Bill. I mean, what happened with the pickle slicer?"

>"Oh...she got fired too."

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ringobob t1_j4ndsru wrote

A few of us have heard this joke before, there's different variants but the punchline is usually a bit more clear that "thing you thought was a machine" is actually a woman.

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gm7410 t1_j4og769 wrote

While the older joke may be the correct answer, fired in a restaurant also means in the process of cooking “fire hamburger for table twenty” The dick got cooked

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Mikesaidit36 t1_j4qbf2r wrote

Right, further complicating a botched joke. Plus, for a minute I was thinking about fried tomatoes – thanks, dyslexia.

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