Has anyone heard this before? I just got it in a magazine, don't know how true it is, but it's in a list of Tyson quotes, this one about him going to the zoo:
"When we got to the gorilla cage, there was one big silverback gorilla there bullying the others. They were so powerful, but their eyes were like an innocent infant. I offered the attendant $10,000 to open the cage and let me smash that silverback's snotbox. He declined."
I think it's the use of the word "snotbox" that makes it. If he'd said "nose" then the comedy wouldn't be there. But you can just visualise the scene, can't you?
"When we got to the gorilla cage, there was one big silverback gorilla there bullying the others. They were so powerful, but their eyes were like an innocent infant. I offered the attendant $10,000 to open the cage and let me smash that silverback's snotbox. He declined."
I think it's the use of the word "snotbox" that makes it. If he'd said "nose" then the comedy wouldn't be there. But you can just visualise the scene, can't you?

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