SIZE ME UP

Clothing Salesman: I have the perfect shirt for you.
Psychic: It’s too small.
Clothing Salesman: How do you know? You haven’t tried it on.
Psychic: I’m a medium.

What’s so funny about this? This joke is based on those pesky parts of speech again. In today’s joke, we’re looking at the word “medium”. Is it a noun or an adjective? The answer is: it depends on what is intended. In this case the intention is to fool you with some wordplay. We’re told that we are looking at a psychic and a clothes salesman. The former is shopping for shirts and the latter has announced the he’s found the perfect shirt for the psychic, and show it to him. However, with no hesitation, the psychic informs the salesguy that the shirt is too small. The salesman is astonished. How could the psychic know that the shirt is too small? He challenges him, not realizing his powers. He tells him that without trying on the shirt it would be impossible to know how well it fit. But the psychic informs him that he’s a medi