Chronicle of comedy...

[alexpgp]

According to a post on CNN.com, the world's funniest joke has been revealed after a year-long search by scientists in Great Britain. And here it is...

Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He doesn't seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed. The other guy takes out his phone and calls the emergency services.

He gasps: "My friend is dead! What can I do?" The operator says: "Calm down, I can help. First, let's make sure he's dead." There is a silence, then a gunshot is heard. Back on the phone, the guy says: "OK, now what?"

Rim-shot!

My personal favorite, said to be the top joke in Canada:

When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300 Celsius.

The Russians used a pencil.

* * *I sent Junior off to join El Humungo late this afternoon. Tomorrow, I shall send in my invoice and spend some time at the store so that Galina can go to Farmington. Saturday, we're supposed to watch Huntur, and on Sunday, I start the paper chase in earnest.

Less than two weeks left; time to get cracking. Tonight, though, I'm relaxing.

* * *Snow was falling as I drove home from the store. By the time I got home, some of it had stuck. If it had continued to snow like that until tomorrow morning, I'm sure we'd have a foot of the stuff at least. As it was, it was a local flurry; the sun came through soon enough and melted most of it before sinking below the horizon.

Cheers...

Comments

[ex-ilyavinar899.livejournal.com]

This British joke is funnier (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=luokka.2%40katk.Helsinki.FI&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain).

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

Agreed. However, not all that many people would understand it, as the "wire brush" is no longer considered appropriate therapy, even in the military (at least, in the US military).

Plus, it's not exactly the kind of joke you can tell casually.

But it is funny.

Thanks.

Cheers...