Wayside School Shoe Smell Joke

WAYSIDE SCHOOL BENEATH THE CLOUD OF DOOM “Miss Mush must be cooking something,” said Bebe. “It smells like shoes,” said Myron. D.J. sniffed. “Black shoes,” he said. “With hard soles, and no laces.” “You can smell the laces?” asked Kathy. “No,” said D.J. “I just told you there weren’t any laces.”

A page from *Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom* shows Bebe, Myron, D.J., and Kathy discussing a smell coming from Miss Mush’s cooking. The punchline is D.J.’s absurdly literal response: he identifies the smell as black shoes without laces, then explains that he cannot smell laces because he only said there were none. It is shared as a reaction to pedantic, overly literal, or nonsensical reasoning. EN: A page from *Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom* shows Bebe, Myron, D.J., and Kathy discussing a smell coming from Miss Mush’s cooking. The punchline is D.J.’s absurdly literal response: he identifies the smell as black shoes without laces, then explains that he cannot smell laces because he only said there were none. It is shared as a reaction to pedantic, overly literal, or nonsensical reasoning.

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