“What do you get if you cross a trumpet and a serpent?”/“A snake in the brass.”

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Entry from October 13, 2017

“What do you get if you cross a trumpet and a serpent?”/“A snake in the brass.”

A trumpet riddle is:

Q: What do you get if you cross a trumpet and a serpent?
A: A snake in the brass.

“What do you get if you cross a python with a saxophone? A snake in the brass”—“brass” is a pun on “grass”—was posted on the newsgroup rec.humor on December 9, 1996. “What do you get if you cross a serpent and a trumpet? ” was published in a joke book in 2000.

Google Groups: rec.humor
music
Melanie Aultman
12/9/96
What do you get if you cross a python with a saxophone?
A snake in the brass.

Google Books
The Biggest Ever Joke Book
Bath, UK: Dempsey Parr
2000
Pg. ?:
What do you get if you cross a serpent and a trumpet?
A snake in the brass.

Twitter
meggan_fahrenba‏
@meggan_fahrenba
What do you get if you cross a trumpet and a serpent ? A snake in the brass !
2:12 AM - 28 Nov 2009

6 October 2013, Sunday Telegraph (Surry Hills, New South Wales), “Laugh til your face hurts,” pg. 77:
Q: What do you get if you cross a serpent and a trumpet?
A: A snake in the brass!

Google Books
Sensible Nonsense.. Frank’s Comic Pack:
Humour Pack Series
By Frank Paul
BookBaby
2014
Pg. ?:
What do you get if you cross a trumpet and a serpent ? A snake in the brass !

Twitter
Lucky Score‏
@LuckyScoreNet
What do you get if you cross a trumpet and a
serpent ?
A snake in the brass !
#Joke from #SnakeJokes in #Jokes, #Humor and #Satire
7:36 PM - 13 Oct 2017

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