Opera Corn
This 6.25" hard vinyl ear of corn has been training its whole life for this moment — press the button and it belts out one of five dramatic operatic vocalizations, bold, brassy, and unapologetically theatrical. Three LR44 batteries included, so it's curtain-call ready out of the box.
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The gap between what the object is and what it does is the entire joke, and it does not wear off nearly as fast as you'd expect. There's no cultural reference to get and no punchline to explain. It is corn. It sings opera. Everyone from a six-year-old to a grandparent arrives at the same reaction, which makes it unusually safe for a mixed room where sharper humour would misfire. Our pick for the coworker whose sense of humour nobody in the team has successfully predicted.
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