Current favourite jokes

[Serial_Apologist]

"Doesn't anybody around here care enough about Saint-Saëns to tell him to stop writing operas?" - Claude Debussy, quoted from this week's COTW.

[Bryn]

Not strictly a joke, but I was reminded tonight of the "odd one out" of Arthur Conan Doyle, Niels Bohr, Dmitri Shostakovich and Albert Camus.

[antongould]

Only ACD played first-class cricket ... ???

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Only ACD played first-class cricket ... ???

... and the others were soccer player?

[Bryn]

Only ACD played first-class cricket ... ???

Wrong sport, and all four were involved in it, with three of them in the same role.

[Bryn]

... and the others were soccer player?

You could hardly be more wrong ACD played at the highest level of the three playing the same role.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

You could hardly be more wrong ACD played at the highest level of the three playing the same role.

Ah! I knew that Camus was goalkeeper - I didn't know about ACD's similar role in Portsmouth.

[Vox Humana]

Why are there no asprins in the jungle? Because the parrots-eat-'em-all.

[gurnemanz]

Only ACD played first-class cricket ... ???

Trivia question 1: Who was the only Nobel Prize winner to play first-class cricket?

Trivia question 2: Who were the only father and son to play together in the same national cricket team?

(One is a fact. One is a joke)

[Bryn]

Ah! I knew that Camus was goalkeeper - I didn't know about ACD's similar role in Portsmouth.

That's possibly because he wasn't. He did act as goal-keeper for another team, under a pseudonym, but for Portsmouth he was a back.

[Richard Barrett]

Trivia question 1: Who was the only Nobel Prize winner to play first-class cricket?

"... I can't go on, I'll go on."

[Beef Oven!]

[vinteuil]

"... I can't go on, I'll go on."

“First the body. No. First the place. No. First both. Now either. Now the other. Sick of the either try the other. Sick of it back sick of the either. So on. Somehow on. Till sick of both. Throw up and go. Where neither. Till sick of there. Throw up and back. The body again. Where none. The place again. Where none. Try again. Fail again. Better again. Or better worse. Fail worse again. Still worse again. Till sick for good. Throw up for good. Go for good. Where neither for good. Good and all.”

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[cloughie]

Does someone on these boards resemble those remarks. I couldn’t possibly comment!

[Richard Barrett]

“First the body. No. First the place. No. First both. Now either. Now the other. Sick of the either try the other. Sick of it back sick of the either. So on. Somehow on. Till sick of both. Throw up and go. Where neither. Till sick of there. Throw up and back. The body again. Where none. The place again. Where none. Try again. Fail again. Better again. Or better worse. Fail worse again. Still worse again. Till sick for good. Throw up for good. Go for good. Where neither for good. Good and all.”

Not sure that counts as a joke though.