The Greatest Joke Ever

Recently I made what I still consider to be the best joke I’ve ever come up with.

It went down like a very confused lead balloon, but I am sure there must be an audience for it somewhere. And so I am posting it here in the sincere hope that it will one day discover that audience.

We were in the pub.

[This isn't the joke, this is merely the context in which the joke was made. But do feel free to be amused by anything in this story that may warrant amusement. I expect there won't be anything though.]

My friend was relaying a funny incident that had happened to her earlier that day, in which someone she’d been talking to had misheard her talking about “G & T parties”, thinking she’d been talking about orgies.

Instantly I leapt in with a devastating witticism!

“Surely that’d be A, C, G & T parties, am I right?!”

[That was the joke. Bitter experience has told me this might not be obvious.]

As you read, you might be sympathising with the reaction of my friends to this comment. They looked at me with expressions of confusion, and possibly pity. I scanned their faces for a sign of recognition, that the cleverness and timing of my joke was hitting home.

“A, C, G and T? No? No-one getting this?!”

Increasingly desperate, I began to explain:

“A, C, G and T… come on! The four proteins that make up DNA, yeah?! DNA? So an ACG&T party would be a DNA party, which is like a witty way of saying orgy?”

A sea of blank faces.

“… because at an orgy DNA would be exchanged. So you could call it a DNA party. Or an ACG&T party if you were being cool…”

People started to nod. Perhaps out of desperation, or to make me stop talking. Or perhaps their brains had only just caught up to the genius of the joke.

“… which is a play on G&T party and orgy at the same time! You get it?!”

They didn’t.

The philistines.