This ends up being funnier than you’d expect because of the dad’s reaction at the end:

The question is a recent viral puzzle related to another one I first heard decades ago: If H-O-U-S-E spells “house” and H-O-R-S-E spells “horse,” what does H-O-U-R-S spell?

What’s particularly interesting here is that the victim finally figures it out only when he writes it down, which illustrates how reading operates at a higher level than recognizing individual letters.

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