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• Shouldn't it be sockpuppeteer? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.28.124.91 (talk) 13:48, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

  I don't know, but I'll have a glass of your finest champagne. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:38, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

  For a second, I thought that said "shouldn't I be a sockpuppeteer?" ☆ Bri (talk) 23:44, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

  Yes, a glass of your finest sockpuppet tears! --Surturz (talk) 01:40, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

  Most likely not, because the sockpuppet asked last. At SPI the sockpuppeteer is the oldest account. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 13:04, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

  I know. Do you mean "The sockpuppet answered last? I don't know who "asked" last. Implicitly the last to answer has already got two other accounts (who have drinks), making them the holder of the other accounts/drinks. 2.28.124.91 (talk) 10:03, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

  No, you're overthinking it. When someone is sockpuppeting, the thing they're literally doing is speaking through other accounts to disguise that all of the opinions/statements are coming from them. So the joke only works if it's "the sockpuppet says" — with the implication of that being, therefore, that the sockpuppeteer is the one saying it, and has been controlling all three accounts #ThisWholeTime. FeRDNYC (talk) 13:15, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

• I'm not sure what of the three people and one duck is the admin. IP, nor sockpuppet. But still funny though. Spongebob796 (talk) 12:17, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

  The image is not related to the joke, it's simply a generic illustration of an "N-people-walk-into-a-bar" type setup, which is a humor cliche. There is no express or implied mapping between the characters in the joke and the figures in the illustration. FeRDNYC (talk) 22:32, 30 November 2024 (UTC)