As the alien onslaught continued, linguists were working furiously to translate the only message they’d received in response to our plea to understand why they were attacking.

Submitted by RibaldPancake t3_zzuurj in Jokes

The President was in his bunker trying to figure out where the first contact went wrong. He told his aide, “They landed and I went up to the leader and greeted him in peace. They immediately ran back back to their ship, and started their assault.”

Just then, the lead linguist ran into the room and said, “We think we’ve deciphered the message, though it doesn’t make much sense to us.”

“C’mon - spit it out!” yelled the president.

“The message just says ‘That wasn’t my hand.’”

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NDodma01 t1_j2dpled wrote

Shouldn’t it say, greeted him and shook his hand

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NDodma01 t1_j2dzil3 wrote

Looked him in the eye, said “I was able to get a sense of his soul.” That was not my eye, said the deeply offended alien KGB agent.

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HunkyMonk t1_j2dqhit wrote

I assume that was assumed I think maybe. lol

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RibaldPancake OP t1_j2dro4g wrote

No. We greet people in peace by extending our hand so it's implied. Stating it directly takes away from the punchline by already getting people thinking about "hand".

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neoprenewedgie t1_j2esakm wrote

I disagree. Because shaking hands is such a normal activity, mentioning it doesn't draw any undo attention to it.

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RibaldPancake OP t1_j2ess1y wrote

As a semiprofessional humor artist, I think it's sloppy to do anything to make the punchline less of a surprise.

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