Whats-Its

Tom Swifties were barely buried and done with when the elephant gags came along. And no sooner had those grey flat footsteps faded than the whatsit jokes took over, and what's black and white and red all over turned out to be no newspaper, after all, but a bleeding nun.

Other examples:

Q. What is black and yellow and squeals when you turn it over?

A. A school bus.

Q. What is black and lives in trees and is very dangerous?

A. A crow with a submachine gun.

Q. What is purple and weighs 2,000 pounds and lives at the bottom of the sea?

A. Moby Plum.

Q. What is grey, has four legs and a trunk?

A. A mouse on vacation.

Q. What is covered with salt and has a twisted mind?

A. A thinking pretzel.

Q. What is soft, yellow and lethal?

A. Shark-infested custard.

Q. What is brown, has two humps and lives at the North Pole?

A. A lost camel.

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