A silly riddle I'm in the process of working on — and make no mistake, it needs a lot of work:

Weak explanation & feeble motivation:

• red and read are homonyms (as in the old chestnut "What's black and white and red all over?")
• red is a color traditionally associated with Russia
• zhurnal means journal in Russian
• the suffix -ly or -y implies "like" (as in "fishy", "sooty", etc.)

Yeah, so if it needs that much exegesis then it isn't ever likely to be funny — but nonetheless it's my idea, hey, and I'm gonna keep messing with it until I get it right ...

(see SoFunny (10 Aug 1999), MetaJoke (18 Oct 2001), ...)

TopicHumor - TopicLanguage - TopicZhurnal - 2005-04-04

(correlates: GoForBaroque, HalloweenEqualsChristmas, JournalBearing, ...)