A dirty square tile has a clean wet stripe down it, with a single droplet suspended above against a dark background.

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Steven Wright

I put spot remover on my dog and now he's gone.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker deadpans that a spot remover, used on their dog, made the animal disappear. The joke treats the pet as just another mark to be cleaned away, and the calm report of an absurd, faintly unsettling result is what makes it funny.

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