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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: On a clear day, I can get Santa Fe on the antenna. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the word antenna --- to get Santa Fe \"on the antenna\" would normally mean that the police officer could get the radio chatter from Santa Fe (presumably, the officers are far enough away that this would be notable). However, because the officer is riding a bug, \"antenna\" refers to a literal bug antenna."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Tell me you kept the box and receipt. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "Ancient people didn't set up the Parthenon from an Ikea-style kit, but here, they are failing to assemble it by following the instructions. Because the building is not working out, the implication is that they will return the kit, but need the box and receipt to get a refund."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Heal! Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the words \"heel\" and \"heal\". A doctor might hope their patient would heal from a disease. A dog might be taught \"heel\" as a command which means for your dog to come and stand next to you. Here, the doctor's command has both meanings, because the dog is the patient."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Do YOU remember what you had for lunch last Thursday? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The shark being interrogated has eaten a person, and the cops are showing a picture of the person they ate to them. The cops accuse the shark of eating the person on Thursday, and, in defense, the shark retorts that he doesn't remember, and justifies this by saying that it's normal to not recall that type of detail: the cops also probably couldn't remember what they had for lunch a few days ago. The joke is that lunch isn't a small unimportant detail for the shark because they killed someone."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: That's it. I'm returning those narciscissors today! Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "\"narciscissors\" is a mashup of the words narcissist and scissors. If there was a product called \"narciscissors\": the narcissist part might cause someone to make flattering hedge trimmings of themselves. This might be annoying to the wife who has to live in a house with these ridiculous sculptures of her husband."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Can't you just ignore the polls on this one and go with your instinct? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A joke about an overly-analytical person who makes all their decisions based on data/polls, so much so, that she has hired an entire team of people to crunch the numbers on all their decisions. Her partner is begging her not to over-analyze their feelings for each-other, and go with her instinct instead. It's funny because some people over-analyze relationship situations, and this person takes it to an extreme."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: As a weasel, I need your vote. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the idea that politicians are figurative weasels --- i.e., they are deceitful/shady. This politician is strangely trying to get votes from woodland creatures, and is trying to relate to the animals by embracing his identity as a (figurative) weasel to the group of animals who may know (or may be) literal weasels."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: For God's sake, Dave, you're thirty-five—just use the stairs. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The romantic story of Rapunzel details two young lovers who endure significant hardship to be together: the prince must climb the princess' hair in the cover of night, etc. But here, the couple is older and more accessible to each other -- Rapunzel is \"over\" the romantic hair climbing of their past and is telling her partner to just use the stairs. A play on the trope that long-term relationships get more boring over time."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: So a doctor walks into a bar—this is not a joke by the way. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "\"So a doctor walks into a bar\" is often the beginning of a bar joke --- but here, the doctor is physically injured and telling his patient about it. We can deduce that the doctor must have walked into a literal physical bar of some kind, and experienced these injuries as a result."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Six rounds. Nine lives. You do the math. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "Revolvers have 6 bullet capacity, and there's a proverb that states that cats have 9 lives. The cat is humorously nonchalant about being shot by the mouse because it believes it literally has 9 lives --- even if it was killed 6 times, it would still have extras to win the fight versus the mouse."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: This is the most advanced case of Surrealism I've seen. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "Surrealism is an art style which focuses on incongruent, impossible, and unnerving scenes; here, that art movement is repurposed as a disease --- and if someone was infected with surrealism, in the advanced stages, their body might separate in similarly impossible/un-nerving ways like impossibly having a separated head, torso, and legs."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Due to financial difficulties, several board members have taken on additional duties. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "If a company was experiencing financial difficulties, board members wouldn't be making as much money: this joke takes that to a funny extreme --- the executives have become window cleaners for the building their company is in, even though board members are usually millionaires. It's funny because they are still attending the board meeting, but from their window washing platform outside."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I don't need your approval. I just need you to tie the laces. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The joke is about an indignant horse insisting that they should be allowed to wear these unusual shoes, despite the cowboy's skepticism. The horse needs the cowboy to tie the shoelaces because its physically unable, but the cowboy is skeptical if the shoes should be allowed. It's funny in part because the horse is acting like a teenager asserting its independence, rebelling against a parent by wearing unusual clothing."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Well, at least somebody remembered about casual Good Friday. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A playful combination of the phrases \"Good Friday\" and \"casual Friday\". \"Good Friday\" is a christian holiday that takes place close to Easter, as represented by the Easter bunny costume. Casual Friday is a common office policy that encourages people to wear less formal clothes to the office, which the Easter bunny costume would be. So, on casual Good Friday, an Easter bunny outfit being worn to work would be appropriate."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: She told me she had protection. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A reversal of traditional gender roles: usually, women are the ones who become pregnant after unprotected sex, but here, the man is pregnant. He laments that his partner claimed to be using protection so he didn't expect to become pregnant. It's funny because it's not clear what sort of protection he thought she had, or how the couple reproduced in the first place."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Personally, I'm not a big fan of modern architecture. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "People sometimes complain about modern architecture being ugly. But for cavepeople, the cave is the modern architecture, and the hole is the usual one. Thinking of a cave as \"modern architecture\" is funny because both seem so ancient to the reader."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I see our time is almost up. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A dark joke about a weird therapist's office that is located on the subway tracks. \"Time being up\" is a usual way for a therapist to end a session, but in this case, \"time almost up\" refers to them getting hit by the train and perhaps dying."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Thank God, Fashion Week is over. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The man with the unusual outfit is going to the bar on Friday after his bad week at the office: \"fashion week\". \"Fashion week\" is an industry event where clothing designers showcase extravagant, unusual, and highly artistic outfits: the duck and no pants look depicted might be one of them. But here, instead of displaying the outfits on trained models, this office is displaying outfits on regular office employees who might not enjoy the eccentric clothing."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: It feels good to get out of the museum for a night. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A human couple might consider going to the museum for a night to be an exciting date night. Here, the mummies, who usually reside in the museum (e.g., the history museum's egypt section), have the opposite perspective: for them, it feels like an exciting date night to get out of the museum for a night and be normal people in a normal house. It's funny that a human couple and a mummy couple could switch places (home/museum) to both have exciting date locations."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Not now—I'm in the middle of a big case. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on words: to be \"in the middle of a big case\" to a lawyer would usually mean that they are busy in the process of litigating an important legal case. But here: the \"case\" is a literal briefcase, and the lawyer is standing in the middle of it."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: This town ain’t big enough for anyone. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the phrase \"this town ain't big enough for the two of us\" --- this is a thing cowboys say to each-other to insight a duel, and refers to the idea that the two combatants each have big egos and only one can survive. But here, the \"town\" is a tiny island, and even the lonely cowboy can not physically fit. So, the phrase is: the town isn't big enough \"for anyone\"."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: How many times do I have to tell you, don't call me at work! Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "In a circus act, a lion plays the part of a ferocious and scary animal --- but, this phone conversation humanizes the lion by pointing out that they are only acting/doing their job. As a result, they have everyday concerns about their employment, e.g., this lion is embarrassed that their spouse called them at work and seeks work-life separation."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: And my hourly fee is six hundred dollars. You're not in Kansas anymore. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "In the \"Wizard of Oz,\" the movie that the characters in the chairs are from, the main character says \"We're not in Kansas anymore\" in reference to the fact that they have been transported to the magical land of Oz. Here, they are in an expensive lawyer's office instead of Oz, and the reason why it's \"not Kansas\" is not whimsical --- it's because the lawyers in this city (probably New York) are more expensive than in Kansas. The lawyer uses the same line from the movie to justify his high price."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: No, you come in on four. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the phrases \"come in\" and \"four\" --- if a marching band were practicing their routine, they would probably discuss particular beats on which instruments \"come in,\" or join the piece (e.g., \"on [beat] four\"). But in an elevator talking to the person trying to literally \"come in\" to the elevator, on \"four\" refers to floor four: the phrase would mean that the person shouldn't enter the elevator on the current floor because it's not the fourth floor."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: The instructions should have mentioned that you need a body of water. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A joke about an incompetent pair of mobsters attempting to kill the man on the roof via cement shoes; they are incompetent because they are following a step-by-step instruction manual to do this, and have overlooked the obvious: you need a body of water to throw the person with cement shoes to kill them, and now they are driving around frantically trying to find one. It's funny in part because they are not being discrete: the incompetent pair has simply put the victim on the roof for everyone to see/try to intervene."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I wanted you to meet our colon specialist before we miniaturized him. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "An allusion to \"Fantastic Voyage\" wherein a submarine crew gets miniaturized and sent into a person's body. In this case, the person in the diving suit is a doctor who will perform colon surgery from the inside."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Welcome to the greatest living room on Earth! Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The slogan for the popular Ringling circus is \"The Greatest Show On Earth\", and while there is a circus ring here, instead of being a show, this ring doesn't contain any of the interesting parts of a circus like the animals or performers, and instead just exists in a living room."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Your overhead is going to kill you. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Overhead costs eat away at profits in companies/organizations, which can lead to their downfall. Here, however, the overhead is literally a giant sword which can literally kill the king."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: The goatee looked dumb on its own. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A joke about the word \"goatee\" --- a goatee refers to a cut of facial hair that combines a mustache with a chin beard. While the word \"goatee\" doesn't usually relate to the goat animal directly, this man has turned other parts of his body more goat like, including his goat legs and horns, because apparently without these other goat-like characteristics, he thought that the goatee looked weird on its own."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I didn't get where I am by trying to please. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The CEO of a company will often explain who they had to make many sacrifices to get to the top. But here, the CEO is a cat and all the employees are dogs. The cat must have had to fight especially hard against the status quo to achieve her position."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I have to warn you, I don't exactly have a bladder of steel. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "People on window seats in airplanes need to climb over people in aisle seats in order to access the bathroom at the end of the plane: this can be annoying because of how cramped the space is. Here, superman, also known as \"the man of steel\" is warning his seat-mate that he will need to get up to use the restroom because, despite his name, he doesn't have a \"bladder of steel,\" i.e., he will need to use the bathroom to pee frequently."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Let's just go with the open floor plan. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The intelligence of mice is tested in labs using mazes with lots of walls. But if the mice could build the maze themselves (as depicted), they might choose to put up no walls (\"open floor plan\") and go straight for the prize. It's funny to let them build it themselves because it defeats the purpose of the experiment."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Move the car. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A crude joke about bird poop. Pigeons are notorious for pooping on cars, and so people try not to park under birds. Here, the birds are large and so the people assume that their car is in extra deification danger, and thus are trying to move it."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Stop fighting it, kid—everyone eventually sings in the shower. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the phrase \"swims with the fishes\", which means to die, especially if one has been murdered. The mobster put the person in cement shoes, which normally causes them to drown in a body of water. But, instead of getting murdered, the person eventually will literally \"sing in the shower\" instead."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I see our time is almost up. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "A dark joke about a weird therapist's office that is located on the subway tracks. \"Time being up\" is a usual way for a therapist to end a session, but in this case, \"time almost up\" refers to them getting hit by the train and perhaps dying."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Will No. 3 please step forward and achieve satori. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "In a police lineup, suspects are often called upon to perform small tasks to help identify perpetrators, e.g., turning, or opening their mouth. The police officer nonchalantly asks for a non-trivial task of the holy lineup: to achieve sudden enlightenment (satori). The informality of this request is funny."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Oh, now you want to talk, when all week it was all 'Do Not Disturb.’ Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A joke about a surprisingly combative relationship between a housekeeper at a hotel and a guest. The secretive guest very much does not want to be disturbed, and left the small sign on the doorknob indicating as such for the week of their stay. But now, they are on the other side of the door engaging with the housekeeper, who cautiously approaches with a gun. It's funny in part because the potential reasons for this escalation are humorous, e.g., perhaps the guest is a criminal, and the housekeeper is an undercover agent who has been trying to covertly stop them."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I'd suggest you keep them away from the gingerbread men. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "These odd female dancers are being sold at the meat counter as a product: while this remains unexplained, the butcher's advice is to keep these women away from gingerbread men, which are a type of cookie shaped like men. One would want to keep the men and the women apart because romantic hi-jinks between the men and women might occur."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: We've been struggling to enlist millenials. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The sailors are trying to recruit millennials using these new flags. Millennials are broadly tech savy because they grew up with the internet, and so the sailors think the best way to communicate with them is using emojis."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Once tax season is over, you can go back to being the only child. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "Your taxes can be reduced in the US if you have children: by claiming more dependents on your tax return, you get to pay less to the government, which everyone tries to do. Here, the man is humorously bending the tax rules by treating the family dog as a human child to save tax money. The human child is not happy about it, but the parent assures the kid that it's only for tax season that they need to do this charade."
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