The Joke Thread

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Quote from: steve ridgway on July 26, 2025, 08:53:42 PMSo that is where this comes from  :laugh: .







Quote from: DavidW on July 27, 2025, 04:33:37 AMI would change The Cure to Alan Pettersson! :laugh: Which, funny enough, I'm planning on listening to his 9th today. :-X


Changing The Cure to Alanis Morisette occurred to me!   ;D
"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)

LKB

Quote from: Irons on July 27, 2025, 04:43:01 AMI asked for Octopus at a restaurant.
The waiter said it would take four hours.
I said why that long?
Waiter replied the Octopus keeps turning the gas off!

Not a joke per se, more of an anecdote. At least it's true.

Walking through downtown Menlo Park this morning, I passed by a newly-opened oyster bar and thought, " Those must be some tiny glasses... "

Maybe I should have been a dad, after all.  8)
Mit Flügeln, die ich mir errungen...

Irons

Another anecdote. Listening to a highly entertaining "Rosebud" podcast with Gyles Brandreth chatting with Sir Gary Oldman, who describing his years of heavy drinking - Oldman has been sober for over 20 years.

I knew my drinking had got too bad when one night Keith Richards put me to bed!
You must have a very good opinion of yourself to write a symphony - John Ireland.

I opened the door people rushed through and I was left holding the knob - Bo Diddley.