Can someone explain the red hot stove joke? Is it just implying he would steal it if it wasn’t hot? Like being hot is the necessary requirement for him not stealing it?
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Can someone explain the red hot stove joke? Is it just implying he would steal it if it wasn’t hot? Like being hot is the necessary requirement for him not stealing it?
Yep, that is the joke. It does do so in a way that allows Stevens to say ‘no’ to the question ‘would he steal’.
The retraction also works, as now he has an implication Cameron would steal a red hot stove.
Oh I didn’t get that “no” element. Clever.
Old jokes can be hard to follow. I was expecting more idiom.