Did it ever strike you that in requesting your salad dressing “on the side,” you might be interpreted as requesting either of two opposite things—that your dressing be served separately from your salad, or that your dressing be served on your salad, because it is, of course, a “side,” in restaurant-menu parlance? Kind of makes you think, doesn’t it? So here are a few jokes on the side:
Q: What question did one ant yell across the picnic table to the other ant?
A: “Which side are you on?”
Diner 1: “Hey—did you steal my French fries?”
Diner 2: “No—I never take sides.”
Q: What do you call vegetable-induced dyspepsia?
A: A side effect!
Diner 1: “Hey—wanna split these split-peas with me?”
Diner 2: “What for? They’re already split!”
Diner 1: “Why, that’s a side-splitting joke!”
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