Pete Smissen
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That huge...
Weird looking bird that's got like a really big body.
It stands about as tall as a human.
You know, it's got its head on a stalk.
And they're just- They're just weird.
They're just weird looking animals, right?
Especially when they're running, because they kind of have this little- I don't know, what would you say?
They're kind of like up and down.
When they're running, jiggling about.
It's kind of- They're kind of amusing, you know?
They're humorous.
They're amusing.
So, the joke is about that bird, you know, why do Australians laugh at flightless birds, aka emus, and the word amusing, right?
Or amusing, if you want to say it with a schwa at the start of the word.
Amusing, meaning funny or humorous.
And here we're pronouncing it like the word emu, right?
The bird.
So, why do Australians laugh at flightless birds?
They find them emusing.
Why is it like men, especially dads, that just the dumber the joke, the funnier it is?