French dadjoke that stumped Will Shortz on NPR

Heard this one on the radio during the Sunday Puzzle segment on NPR's Weekend America yesterday. A grandfatherly contestant on the program (named Gérard) asked this riddle of NYTimes puzzlemaster and Yale enigmatologist Will Shortz:

"Two cats are competing to see who would win in a race swimming across the English Channel. The cats' names are One-Two-Three Cat and Un-Deux-Trois Cat. Who won?"

Shortz was stumped. The contestant answered the riddle saying:

"The English cat, One-Two-Three Cat won because Un-Deux-Trois-Quatre-Cinq."

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👤︎ u/bachrock37
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Dad in the car

Our car radio uses buttons that say "Seek" to change the channel.

We were driving along and my mum asked how to change the channel, I told her to press the "Seek" button. My dad said "Why would you press that? All you'd get is Punjabi nonsese."

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📅︎ Oct 19 2013
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