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Thursday, July 14, 2005

You know when you say something so witty that you wish more people were around to hear it? That's one of the beauties of having a blog... instant audience for showing off!

Conversation with my boss this morning:

K: (Reading some news story.) They're posting police outside mosques now, apparently idiots have been stoning them.

Me: (After a few seconds of frenzied brain activity.) They should just put railings up.

K: Why?

Me: Because... a railinged mosque gathers no stones.

Not bad for an on-the-spot witticism, I thought.

Well, K laughed anyway. Yeah, we have so much fun here, it's like working in a comedy club (on the admin side).

Nick *scratches head*

Becky I did say you had to be there. :)

steph_angel It reminds me of the time when a news reporter said..."The situation here has worsened, I've seen policemen with small arms being sent in"

I still find that funny today :D

Rachel Somebody put us out of our misery and shoot her, please!

I thought NHS staff weren't supposed to be frivolous - along the lines of a sense of humour could cost lives, no?

Jess stephs is way funnier :)

Jane Becky, ignore them, I know how hard it is to create throw away wittisms when working in the white hot pressure that is public service.

I thought it was funny, just ignore the mockers!

Kris Black comedy is the British birthright! Top hole, says I.

prying1 I thought it was funny - After I got my tounge untwisted and said it right.

Cathii Scott My 13 yo daughter thinks that is soooooo funny..... and I got a bit of a chuckle out of it too.

eeore hmmmmmmm?

How does it feel?
How does it feel?
to be in your loft
like a railinged mosque...

Not sure it is quite so catchy.....

Marcia Sorry, I know I'm being really thick, but I don't get it. Please could you explain it to me?!

Don't take it personally Becky - everything else you've done is hilarious. ;) A couple of glasses of wine down, and my brain has stopped working.

Becky Erm... it's a play on words. A pun if you will. But explaining jokes wrings the last bit of funny out of them, and it wasn't that funny to begin with!

I can't stop to explain everything! A rolling stone gathers no moss, remember! ;-)

(That was a clue by the way.)

Anonymous A ha!

I get it now - I wasn't aware of the stone/moss proverb. Or at least, I forgot it. Now I feel really stupid. *drinks more wine*

Marcia So just to be absolutely certain -

it's kind of like you've taken the original proverb -

"A rolling stone gathers no moss."

...and swapped 'moss' and 'stone' (pluralising stone in the process) on the basis that 'moss' kind of sounds like 'mosque' and 'rolling' could be confused with 'railinged'...

My god...

Wow, that's awesome!!! Surely you are possessed by the spirit of the great pun-meister that is Richard Whiteley???

[sorry, I'm normally a bit more on the ball than this.]

Becky Oh my God! I'm channelling Whiteley!

HELP!!

Marcia Bring it on...

Countdown hosted by Becky!

Joanna Do you think when they buried Richard Whiteley, they lowered him down to the countdown theme?

eeore I always thought Carol Vorderman was terribly rude on Countdown.

Like when the contestants ask for a consonent and she says 'Y'....

because they want to play the game, you rude woman....

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