So I have always gotten jokes. A friend told me his favorite and i just don't understand it. I did a web search and found variants but no explanation why it's funny or what it means. Can you help? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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Cars have windows. Houses have windows. So it can't be windows that makes the car go.

I swear I don't understand, and he tried to explain it to me. He said it's a double meaning with Windows the operating system but I just don't don't don't get it.

Can anyone make this understandable to me? I may have screwed up the retelling, because honestly I have no idea what the hell's going on with this joke.

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[-] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Yeh I think if he hadn't called it a "joke" the meaning would come more naturally but then again he explicitly said it's somehow got something to do with the operating system called windows so WTF?

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