I feel like it would work better if it wasn't the first or last word. Just fiddle around with different words, and viola!
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Not to talk of when you replace first names with random aquatic creatures
I noticed it :p
guess I'm 1 out of 10
I noticed it immediately, but then I took it for an honest typo until I had read it all.
Gone was the fun.
I didnt notice the second one. I feel silly
Fuck, I'm 9 out of 10 people.
That’s a decent joke.
Can anyone trump it?
Reading this on my shamisen from Tokyo to Kyoto
This only works because accordion is close according, not because they sound alike which is what everyone is attempting in these comments.
This is similar to the phenomena that allows jumbled words to be read, it's about context clues not puns.
Adonriccg to rseracreh, 9 out of 10 ppleoe dno't srtulgge to raed sracblmed up wrods, as lnog as the fsrit and lsat leretts rmaein in the crrocet pacle.
You very smartphone.
wow... i had to read that 3 times before i found the instrument....
english is my first language...
english is my first language...
that's likely the reason. the more you're used to a language the less you notice mistakes
Ditto
First read was a normal read. Second read, I thought the joke was that there wasn't an instrument. I had to come to the comments before I saw it lmao
This joke makes me want to commit violins
Do you feel violated?
Sounds like you got a trombone to pick
Kick him in the pianist
I noticed right away, thanks to my ASD super power I guess
I have autism and I didn't notice that
Same, where are our powers
That's why its a spectrum, we are not all the same
AuADHD reporting in. I got caught re-reading the first part but for a while trying to figure out what neat thing about free-reed instruments was going on, before eventually reading to the end and realizing that its presence was the joke.
More or less my experience!
I haven't noticed my own autism too.
You ever have phone sax?
Ever had sax on phone?
Bruce Springsteen aka the bass would agree
Explicitly not "random", but admittedly funny.
As one cursed with an illiterate fuckwit for a brain-hole, any word can be either a random musical instrument or summon a demon, like fun little Schrodinger surprises. Just kinda gotta roll with it after a while
More like can't see without glasses and only look lemmy in my bed at night. I onlu see 30%