Jim Phillips wrote:

> Okay, I just can't stand it anymore! I've got to jump in the fray!
>

> Frank's "joke" was one of the "repetition set-up" types where several
> "riddles" are asked in succession and the answers to all but the last
> one (which throws a "twist" in) are essentially the same.  The "humor"
> is derived from the fact that the expected answer for the last "riddle"
> is wrong and instead the "twist" answer is right.  The answer to the
> first two "riddles" was "A One-legged AfroAmerican" and "Two One-legged
> AfroAmericans".  The "expected" answer to the third riddle was "Three
> One-legged AfroAmericans", but the twist was applied and the answer was
> "A piano".

On top of that, who ever saw a three legged piano?
The punch line is "a piano stool".

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