TheMudge
The Real Mudge
2097 post s
2-May-2007
9:00 AM
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This is posted on the bulletin board over the photocopy machine in the English Department at the college where I teach. A construction worker told his supervisor that he had trouble telling the difference between a joist and a girder. "That's easy," said his boss, "Joist wrote Ulysses, and Girder wrote Faust."
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Rich Turner (The Curmudgeon Himself)
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Endi
218 post s
4-May-2007
3:29 PM
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That's almost as bad as the Londoners discussing the difference between a buffalo and a bison? - You can't wash yer 'ands in a buffalo but you can in a bison. The best one like that still has to be: Comedian: My wife's gone to the west Indies.
Stooge: Jamaica?
Comedian: No, she wanted to go.
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Bradd
306 post s
10-May-2007
4:59 PM
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Good chuckles.... I can never remember a joke. "Bison/basin" required an explanation by me to a friend.
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Brenda
225 post s
11-May-2007
9:26 PM
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Thanks for the post, Bradd. I hate not being able to get a joke.
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TheMudge
The Real Mudge
2129 post s
12-May-2007
8:41 AM
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If you don't get the joke, it could be because the person telling the joke isn't good at telling jokes. That reminds me of this story. A visitor to a mental inatitution noticed some unusual goings-on. The residents walked around shouting out numbers and everyone would laugh.
"56!"
Laughter
"17!"
Gales of laughter
"73!"
Knee-slapping laughter "What's going on here?" the visitor asked.
"Well," explained a doctor, "These folks have been here a very long time, so they've told the same jokes over and over. To save time, they assigned each joke a number. Now, when anyone wants to tell a joke, he just shouts out the number." Just then somebody shouted out "51!"
Nobody laughed. "What happened there?" the visitor asked.
"Some people just don't know how to tell a joke," said the doctor.
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Rich Turner (The Curmudgeon Himself)
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Endi
252 post s
29-May-2007
7:55 AM
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Then there's the old classic: Q. What's brown and steamy and comes out of Cowes backwards?
A. The Isle of White ferry. Unfortunately, this joke requires a little knowledge of British geography and should be spoken not written.
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