[Lingo] Re: [tlug] Emergency nomikai August 17th?

[steven smith <sjs@example.com>]

Nguyen Vu Hung wrote:
> Josh Glover さんは書きました:
> > On 02/08/07, steven smith <sjs@example.com> wrote:
> >
> >  
> > > And how big is a boot?
> > >     
> >
> > Depends on the size of your car, mate. ;)
> >
> >   
> Can you translate this ( American? ) joke into other languages? :D
>
> Drinking beer with a boot? I think there must be some neta behind I 
> don't know.
>
> Perhaps my English never reach this level: Understand and making joke in 
> English.
>
> Any tips?
This isn't really a joke.  It's some kind of a spin off from 
a pun where one person says a sentence meaning one thing and 
the second person twists it to mean something different.  In 
this case, the different meaning comes out of the fact that 
boot means something in UK English (?) than it does in 
American English.

For a joke the proper response is to laugh, but for a pun, 
it's a groan.

Do the Japanese have an equivalent to a pun?

Steve S.
P.S. I'll cross post this to Lingo -- which is probably 
where it belongs.