Why don't skeletons fight each other?
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Skeletons do fight sometimes, but only with their meat bag still attached.
They don’t have the stomach for it.
Because they don’t get under each other’s skin.
No beef between them.
They don’t have any skin in the game.
Because they don’t have the guts.
The joke “Why don’t skeletons fight each other? Because they don’t have the guts” is a play on words that uses a double meaning of the term “guts.” In one sense, “guts” refers to the internal organs of an animal or human, which skeletons, by definition, lack. In another sense, “having guts” is an idiomatic expression meaning to have courage or bravery. The humor arises from the juxtaposition of these two meanings. The listener is led to initially think of the courage aspect but is then humorously redirected to the literal absence of internal organs in a skeleton.