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  • It's funny, because the word stroke is a homophone.

    In the context of dicki's post, it could either mean a cerebrovascular accident, of which the elderly may be prone to, or it could mean that someone rubbed the elderly gentleman's swollen and distended testicle.

    We find it amusing as both concepts are uncomfortable to imagine, almost absurd in the case of the testicle fondling, and the juxtaposition of the two entirely different interperetions of the word is both novel and clever.

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