PUSH-OVER

What’s so funny about this? In simplest terms, this joke is a paraphrase of an old, very well-known expression or proverb, “You can lead/take a horse to water but you can’t make it drink.” The meaning of this saying is that if someone is unwilling to do something, even though you can do all kinds of things to encourage and help that person, ultimately it’s their responsibility. So you can ride the horse, pull the horse, walk next to the horse, shove the horse, even bring water to the horse. But you can’t drink the water for the horse. Anyway you slice it, it’s the horse which has to perform this act! HOWEVER, this joke is not about a horse, it’s about a hearse. And it’s not about getting it to drink, it’s about making it sink. This joke has a double pun. The first is the substitution of “hearse” for horse. The second is the substitution of “sink” for “drink.” If a horse doesn’t drink, it will die. As a living creature it requires water to sustain its life. None of this applies to hears