Current favourite jokes

[ahinton]

If it was marriage you were after

I'm not.

wouldn't that be a proposal?

A proposition is something rather different. (I can assure you of this, having been in receipt of both.)

Did you turn either of them down? (not that it's any of my business, of course)...

[ahinton]

Must you pollute every thread with this silly pedantry? It gets really tedious.

Faute de mieux, je crois; I did write "Not sure if a more appropriate place for this might be the Pedants' Paradise thread" in #1630...

[jean]

See #1620...

That was Richard's joke.

The post of mine he's commenting on was just an aside, an answer to what I assumed was a serious question, thus:

...ABdPJ...

ABdP ??

Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson.

(Sorry to have offended Beefy, but that's something it's very difficult to avoid doing.)

[Beef Oven!]

All the same, this thread (which aside from the very occasional sexist lapses, is a very good one) is being hijacked for other purposes. Could people please desist or develop some emotional intelligence, or both. And I don't even care if there should be a soddin' question mark in there somewhere, so don't say.

[ahinton]

I don't even care if there should be a soddin' question mark in there somewhere, so don't say.

Just out of a complete lack of interest, is a soddin' one any different to any other kind?

[Richard Barrett]

One is forced to the conclusion that ahinton, jean and Beef Oven! don't actually know any jokes.

What's so great about Switzerland? Well, their flag is a big plus.

[Beef Oven!]

One is forced to the conclusion that ahinton, jean and Beef Oven! don't actually know any jokes.

What's so great about Switzerland? Well, their flag is a big plus.

I know millions of jokes. May I take this opportunity to say that your 'Last Supper' joke was one of the funniest jokes I've ever come across - I was even laughing out loud days later!

[ahinton]

One is forced to the conclusion that ahinton, jean and Beef Oven! don't actually know any jokes

The one to whom I'm responding, perhaps! - although I cannot speak for jean or Beef Oven! on this.

What's so great about Switzerland? Well, their flag is a big plus.

Nice one - but don't get me started on a serious answr to that question; I'll merely mention the Paul Sacher Stiftung in Basel and leave it at that.

As you were (or "as one was", perhaps)...

[ahinton]

I know millions of jokes. May I take this opportunity to say that your 'Last Supper' joke was one of the funniest jokes I've ever come across - I was even laughing out loud days later!

Moi aussi (or am I not supposed to write anything in French?).

[teamsaint]

Moi aussi (or am I not supposed to write anything in French?).

Of Franco/Australian heritage, AH?

[ahinton]

Of Franco/Australian heritage, AH?

No - just Scots; pedantry determines that I'd have required an upper case "A" at the beginning and an additional "e" at the end had that been the case (yawn)...

[Richard Tarleton]

A couple of drawings from the New Yorker to lighten the mood (the New Yorker seems to have an editorial line on banjos)

©The New Yorker


"I'm trapped in an elevator - wait, it gets worse." © The New Yorker

[Richard Barrett]

I know millions of jokes. May I take this opportunity to say that your 'Last Supper' joke was one of the funniest jokes I've ever come across - I was even laughing out loud days later!

I've had a lot of fun with that one. Whoever thought it up is a genius.

The recording studio cartoon reminds me of a story with a similar venue. A failed rock musician rents a studio to record his own suicide, and makes arrangements for the resulting disc to be produced and sent to an extensive list of promoters and critics. In the studio he reads a long statement - "This is for all you philistines out there who never gave my music a chance, who care only about the bottom line and couldn't give a flying damn about the creative musicians who slog their guts out all their lives just so you can sip cocktails on a beach in the Caribbean... (etc. etc.) well I've had enough, you ignored me, then you cheated me and finally you forgot about me, you ruined my life and I want you to know it's YOU who are responsible for what I'm about to do - " and he takes out a gun and shoots himself in the head. From the control room, the engineer says "Good level - shall we go for a take?"

[Alain Maréchal]

Since RT has mentioned the New Yorker's banjo jokes, I shall risk repeating this:

Q: what is the difference between the banjo and the ukulele?
A: the ukulele makes the more satisfying sound...when sat on.

[Beef Oven!]

I've had a lot of fun with that one. Whoever thought it up is a genius.

The recording studio cartoon reminds me of a story with a similar venue. A failed rock musician rents a studio to record his own suicide, and makes arrangements for the resulting disc to be produced and sent to an extensive list of promoters and critics. In the studio he reads a long statement - "This is for all you philistines out there who never gave my music a chance, who care only about the bottom line and couldn't give a flying damn about the creative musicians who slog their guts out all their lives just so you can sip cocktails on a beach in the Caribbean... (etc. etc.) well I've had enough, you ignored me, then you cheated me and finally you forgot about me, you ruined my life and I want you to know it's YOU who are responsible for what I'm about to do - " and he takes out a gun and shoots himself in the head. From the control room, the engineer says "Good level - shall we go for a take?"