CRUSHED

What’s so funny about this? I’ll bet you never saw this one coming. This expression refers to the kind of joke where the set-up sends you in one direction while the punch line comes from a whole different, unexpected, direction. We see a couple sitting in a café having coffee. The woman is talking while the man is staring into his coffee in a strange way. That’s because, in all probability, she just broke up with him. In case you don’t know, when one partner in a relationship tells the other he or she wants to get out of the relationship, that’s called “breaking up”. The phrase has many other meanings as well. All kinds of things can break, for example, your voice can break up in a phone conversation meaning it’s no longer understandable because of electronic interference, or it could be glass in an earthquake, or it can mean to laugh uncontrollably. There’s even a song written and sung by Neil Sedaka called “Breaking up is hard to do.” And it’s true, it is hard to do because usually