Bee Joke

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This is Bojan telling the Croatian "Bee Joke". More»

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  • The Bee Joke Explained

    Yes, the joke is supposed to be silly. Here is the explanation that I wrote in the 'About Bojan' section of my website (www.tunguz.com)


    A little clip of me telling the "Bee Joke" was also taken in the latter part of 1995. As you might have guessed, there is a story behind it as well. (WARNING: Plot details revealed. This might be a great opportunity to see the joke if you have not done so already.) The particular gesture and vocalization that the little bee makes at the end of the joke are in fact very commonly used in Croatia. They are somewhat purposefully ambiguous and could mean something like "eh, you wish you knew," or "wouldn't you like to know?" It works as a purposeful question-avoidance strategy. So the joke actually makes fun of it. (Yes, the "Bee Joke" is a real joke; I did not make it up.) When I went to college there were many opportunities to use that particular gesture, but I realized that it would be completely lost on my American friends. One day as a bunch of us were waiting for a CalTrain in San Francisco, a fiendish plan dawned upon me: I would tell the joke completely out of context, so the gesture would become associated with the joke, not the other way around. Either that or I was just being silly and telling a random Croatian joke that would lose a lot in translation. The universal dumbfoundedness of my friends only encouraged me more, so I started telling it more, and soon enough both the joke and I were becoming infamous.

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