Monday, December 9, 2024

Elephants and gorillas


Would you rather an elephant attacked you or a gorilla?


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I love the ambiguity in this riddle: the audience thinks "Would you rather an elephant attacked you or a gorilla (attacked you)?" ... instead of: "Would you rather an elephant attacked you or (attacked) a gorilla?" I'm guessing there are lots of ways to use this linguistic formula: Would you rather a rattlesnake bit you or a tiger? etc. etc.

I'd rather it attacked the gorilla.

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