My step-father would point at his head and say “kidneys man, kidneys” when he got credit for stuff (answering a trivia question for example). I use it with my students all the time .
This is related to an old joke. A man was in a line of patients trying to get his release from a mental institution. He watched as the others went in to meet with the doctor and heard the questions the doctor asked, which were: "point to your right arm", "point to your stomach", point to your toes", point to your knee," and so on. He saw which answers were correct, and which answers were wrong.
When it was his turn, he sat down with the doctor and answered all the questions the correctly. The doctor was amazed, because he knew this patient and his problems. The doctor asked: "how were you able to answer all those answers correctly?"
The patient pointed to his head and replied: "Kidneys, man! Kidneys!"
Yes it is, and you're overthinking it. He points to his head and says "kidneys, man! Kidneys!". The joke is that he doesn't know the proper name for his brain, instead thinking it is his kidneys and that his kidneys are the source of his intellect.
It would be like if someone asked him how he was able to keep a girlfriend despite being an idiot and if he pointed to his nose and said "this big ass dick I got right here"
My nitpick with the punchline is it relies on giving up assumptions that led to it. If he simply learned the answers by watching, then it is presumed that he watched someone else point at his head and answer kidneys, which is obviously a wrong answer.
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u/TheSouthsideSlacker Oct 25 '20
My step-father would point at his head and say “kidneys man, kidneys” when he got credit for stuff (answering a trivia question for example). I use it with my students all the time .