Fill in the blanks

I take attendance by asking the students a question.

A _________ walks into a bar. The bartender says, "________". (previously 2016 2017)

The basic was "A sad horse walks into a bar. The bartender says, "Why the long face?""

Many people said "A person walks into a bar." The follow-up bartender lines were:

• "you look like you need a drink"
• "hey"
• "woof"
• "hello"
• "what's up"

There were some unconventional ones: "fish/what's up", "bear/bear", "lemon/hi", "chicken/how'd you cross the road?", "duck/no", "mushroom/hey fun guy", "horse/hay".

I appreciated "A Turing Machine walks into a bar. The bartender says, "Am I also a TM?"" And I found this reasonable for our setting: "A university walks into a bar. The bartender say,s "you are an institution that perpetuates privilege".

Today's Professorial Raised Eyebrow Award goes to the several students who wrote each other, by name, in to the prompt.

This post' s theme word is flapdoodle (n), "nonsense". Sometimes the prompts elicit only flapdoodle.