I am not glad
ESL adventures! I only learned the whole joke a few years ago. I always understood that orange sounded like “aren’t you”, but the rest… baffled me. I have to chalk it up to it being a joke taught at a very early age, and not being a native speaker I just didn’t grow up with it.
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You might’ve learned the joke a few years ago, but I learned it today. I wanted to sincerely thank you for this, several things make way more sense now!
(for example: I keep bumping into a drawing where several oranges and a banana are lined up in front of a door and I am like “WHAT DOES IT MEAN?!” )
My pleasure! There are dozens of us! Dozens!
Here are two other iterations of this joke from the always excellent SMBC
(Not to imply that Portsherry isn’t excellent as well, of course).
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/knock-knock-3
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/knock-knock-4