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[–] 173 points 6 months ago (26 children)

The joke is that the husband and his friend went to Thailand and his friend transitioned. Now the old friend is "missing" and the husband is married to who that friend became.

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  • [–] 144 points 6 months ago (22 children)

    Thanks, I'm dumb and thought she murdered his friend.

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  • [–] 27 points 6 months ago (10 children)

    I'm smart and I though she murdered his friend

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    I don't know if I'm smart or not, but I think part of the joke is that the husband doesn't recognize that his now-wife is his former best friend, and that unlikely circumstance kept me from understanding the joke even though I read the explanation. (Not the explanation in this thread but the more ambiguous one in the other thread.)

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Does it say something about me that I got the joke immediately?

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Me too. Do you happen to be an engineer as well?

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Erm... no, that can't be it...

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Were you dropped on you head as a child like me… repeatedly?

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I thought this was some boomer shit about spouses not listening to each other?

    So many different interpretations in the comments.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    I understood "we met shortly after" as talking about the wife and the best friend. Like a hyperbolic expansion of the "adult men don't talk about their lives with their male friends."

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