Current favourite jokes

[oddoneout]

I almost got hit by a salting lorry the other day. i stayed calm though, and just smiled at the driver through gritted teeth........

A seasoned pro.

[Serial_Apologist]

A seasoned pro.

Indeed - the worst anyone could accuse our teamsaint of would be a salt and peppery.

[LMcD]

I think a bridge would be more reliable!

Have you considered floating your idea with the Supreme Leader? (he said archly).

[LeMartinPecheur]

I think a bridge would be more reliable!

Why not wait for Boris's tunnel?

[Serial_Apologist]

Have you considered floating your idea with the Supreme Leader? (he said archly).

[cloughie]

Why not wait for Boris's tunnel?

I thought he was going for a bridge!

[Serial_Apologist]

I thought he was going for a bridge!

I think our fisherman was being ironic, cloughie!

[ahinton]

Just as well you didn't collide - could easily have led to a Skid Row.

Might that be a Skid Row Quo?...

[ahinton]

One can understand the points being raised.

Yes, as noted in #3201, although Elliott Carter would evidently have had a rather different understanding thereof (one requiring a piano and a virtuoso pianist)...

[Serial_Apologist]

Yes, as noted in #3201, although Elliott Carter would evidently have had a rather different understanding thereof (one requiring a piano and a virtuoso pianist)...

Not Luciano Berio, then.............

[Boilk]

Apologies, but the phrase 'bus replacement service' always niggles as it's the train being replaced, not the bus.

On such days, do the trainspotters change notebooks and become replacement bus spotters?

[cloughie]

On such days, do the trainspotters change notebooks and become replacement bus spotters?

They’re probably both already. It’s the Beeching Replacement Syndrome.

[oddoneout]

They’re probably both already. It’s the Beeching Replacement Syndrome.

They'll be needed judging by this https://www.theguardian.com/environm...e-crisis-study

Trouble is the replacement's likely to be plastic waste?

[ahinton]

Not Luciano Berio, then.............

No, I was referring to Caténaires...

[Serial_Apologist]

"The reason the Tories don't invest in education is because they depend upon a certain level of ignorance for their support" - Steve Coogan.