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Make me a sandwich!
Poof! You're a sandwich.
Just does not work in tp. o pali e pan moku tawa mi. a! sina pan moku.
I suppose the waiter could have misheard the request as o pali e pan moku tan mi. But the real request for this reply would be o kama pan moku e mi.
Can you think of a similar sort of joke that works in tp?

http://xkcd.com/149/

ni li ala e ijo ni: sina li alasa e ijo ni.
not really what you were asking for but that is what I thought of first.

jan Wan: o kama e pan pi lipu tu tawa mi!
jan Tu: seme? o kama sama e pan pi lipu tu!
jan Wan: nimi Suto la o kama e pan pi lipu tu tawa mi!
jan Tu: pona. mi kama e wan.

(Linux joke certain commands must be prefixed by Sudo to have the force of an administrator, a feature that exists so people don't accidentally type powerful and harmful commands)

Thanks for the Linux lore -- it destroyed 16 gigs on my last machine and so I have not followed it much. An interesting variant on "Simon says".
I don't get "This destroys that thing. You look for that thing."

Much better "sandwich". My even more pedantic friend reminds me that the original is "Make me a malted."

I appear to have forgot how to say "This is not what you are looking for"

ni li ni ala: sina li alasa e jan ilo.
These aren't the droids you are looking for.

ni li moku. this is food.
ni li moku ala. This isn't food.
ni li ni ala. this isn't it.
? ni li ala. This is not.

jan Wan: ni li jan ilo ni: sina li alasa e jan ilo ni?
(?) jan Tu: ni li ala

Well, better 'sina alasa ala alasa e jan ilo ni? answer: 'ala'. (nimi pali ni li pona mute tawa jan Sonja)
sina alasa e ijo. ni li ijo ni ala: normalized to "this is not the thing you are looking for."
'ala' as an intransitive verb (i.e., a noun or modifier in initial verb position) means "nothing" or, possibly, "non-existent" (though not with 'ni', of course).

http://www.sinfest.net/comikaze/comics/2013-03-23.gif

tu la mi kama alasa e toki musi pi pan tu!

nanpa sin- poki pi linja tu tu:
jan li lukin e sitelin pi meli apeja lon lipu sona pi len pi ilo sona. jan ike li sitelen e ni: "meli o pali e pan tu!"
jan li toki : a! ni li meli apeja! ni li ike kin!

nanpa tu
poki pi linja tu tu:
jan li tawa tan tomo sama li toki e ni: "mi toki e nasin pona tawa nasin ike li pali e pona!"

nanpa tu wan
poki pi linja tu tu:
meli sin ala li pana e jan Suwiko e pan sike suwi mute. "o moku!"

nanpa pini.
poki pi linja tu tu
jan Suwiko li tawa noka sewi li moku e pan suwi li toki e ni: "tenpo suno ni li pona kin!"

poki?
apeja?
mi nimi 'ike' e nasin ike. mi pona kulupu.
meli pi sin ala or meli pi suli mute li toki e nimi 'o kama jo e pan suwi'
mi jo e pan suwi!

apeja - a word jan Sonja wrote about but never promoted to full wordhood. It means something like hate and other seriously unpleasant feelings and thoughts. Sort of a "jaki" of the "pilin" category, so to be mean spirited, to behave in a sexist, racist, other-ist fashion, etc.

Ah! So 'apeja meli'?