What did the egg say to the boiling water?
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Hot enough for you? Because you’re cracking me up!
The joke “What did the egg say to the boiling water? Hot enough for you? Because you’re cracking me up!” plays on the double meanings of the word “cracking.” In the context of boiling an egg, “cracking” refers to the physical act of the eggshell breaking. However, “cracking up” is also a colloquial expression meaning to laugh or find something very amusing. The setup leads the listener to anticipate a straightforward interaction between the egg and boiling water, but the punchline cleverly combines the two meanings of “cracking” to create humor.
It is going to take me a while to get hard. Actually I just got laid earlier today…
“You’re steaming! I didn’t mean to egg-cite you!”