The whole joke in 22 sentences. Listen, repeat, and get ready to tell it yourself! Then: tell the whole joke →
How to work: click ▶, listen, then repeat the sentence aloud. Imitate the voices: the old pirate (“Arrr!”, “me men”) and the polite young sailor (“sir”). In the questions How did you lose your leg?, the voice goes down at the end.
1Set the scene
An old pirate was sitting alone at a table in a bar.
He was drinking a glass of rum and smoking a pipe.
2Describe the old pirate
He was wearing an eye patch.
He had a wooden leg instead of his real leg.
He had a metal hook for his right hand and a parrot on his shoulder.
3The young sailor arrives
A young sailor came into the bar and sat down with the old pirate, and they began to chat.
4Question 1: the leg
The young sailor asked: “How did you lose your leg, sir?”
“I fell overboard.”
“Some sharks were circling the ship.”
“Me men tried to pull me back up onto me ship.”
“A shark got away with it.”
“Wow, what a life full of adventures!”
5Question 2: the arm
“And how did you lose your arm, sir?”
“I was attacking another ship.”
“And I was fighting another pirate.”
“He cut it off!”
“Wow, what an extraordinary life!”
6Question 3: the eye
“And how did you lose your eye, sir?”
“I was eating a grapefruit.”
“And a drop of juice went into me eye.”
“But I don't understand. How could you lose your eye with a drop of grapefruit juice?”
7The punchline
“Well, you see, it was me first day with the metal hook, son.”