A Joke Explainer

.@AddledPixie Some Twitter users feel compelled to reply to tweets containing jokes & explain them. It's unnecessary and super annoying.

Meatier sounds like meteor. A large meteor impacting the earth is a widely accepted cause for dinosaur extinction.

The pattern on the mask is camouflage, which some people like to joke is invisible.

Pajamazon sounds like “pajamas on” and is a portmanteau of the words pajamas, clothes intended to be slept in, and Amazon, the company of which Jeff Bezos, who ostensibly sleeps, is CEO.

The drummer from Def Leppard, Rick Allen, had his arm severed in a car accident. He continued playing drums for the band.

Gruyerea is a cheese pun using the word “gruyére”—a hard yellow Swiss cheese—to sound like “gray area”

Rather than calling a friend or family member, the author called for delivery pizza with his one phone call from jail.

Ant sounds like aunt. And the man, or male, version of an aunt is an uncle.

Often photographers will tell those being photographed to say, “cheese,” so they smile. In this case the people being photographed said, “cheese,” to warn the photographer about what was about to fall on him.

The author mistook American rock band Imagine Dragon’s music for mechanical problems with his car.

The scantron only has the letter “E” marked and “EEEEE” is a common representation of the sound dolphins make.

This references the lyric “You can check out any time you like / But you can never leave!” from the song ‘Hotel California’ by American rock band The Eagles. The hotel manager realizes that if the hotel guests can never leave they will likely die in a fire.