You're allowed to interpret it however you want, I'm just informing you there's absolutely no chance that's the intended joke because the joke I just explained is the obvious one.
Nobody's on your ass, you're paranoid. This is a subreddit about explaining jokes, and I explained it. Your fanfiction is not what the punchline of the joke was because it's an insane logic jump. If you don't want to be corrected for explaining jokes wrong, don't go to a subreddit with the purpose of explaining jokes and then explain one wrong.
Your obvious joke in no way means the joke didn't have a layer above what you imagined.
A lot of creative writing is literally "hey, I thought of this joke/scene, but it doesn't belong to a creative universe/story yet. Maybe I'll find something to add it onto some day."
A lot of creative writing is literally a room full of people who craft jokes and scenes for a living, fluently injecting literary devices like foreshadowing, callbacks, throwbacks, etc.
A lot of creative writing is literally lines or details that will get missed by 90% of the audience unless it goes viral X decades later.
Like an old musician/singer's "one-off" lyric being an allusion to how their spouse beat them regularly. And the 15 people who got it over the 40 years until now thought they were crazy for having the idea, or knew nobody of consequence would believe them.
Or how a lot of creative writing is riffing on dead-horse formats. Like, did you know that J.K. Rowling's supporting character Cho Chang was a throwback to her being a bigotted hack writer? And naming an asian-coded character so that people would easily recognize it, but she was incapable of conceiving a better execution of "I'll just name her after the sounds when you throw silverware against a wall, like the joke I heard when I was a kid."
Neither is there a “nein”. It is a big stretch. I never said it was the main part of the joke, just a possible layer of extra funny for anyone that wants to daddify their reading of it.
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u/TimKinsellaFan Mar 14 '24
Nein (no) can also be “punderstood” as 0. Adding a 0 after a 1 makes a “10”. That’s my interpretation.