On 9-6-2009 18:21, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:03:33 +0200, andrel wrote:
> 
>> Even if I did, why do you suppose
>> that I (i.e. anybody in this group) knew that, which I didn't?
> 
> Well, I'd never heard of it before, but the joke had some context ("down 
> the hill") which made me think of a car.  That plus my best guess at the 
> pronunciation identified it as a play on words.

Sure but even when I plugged that all in, I still did not find it funny, 
so I assumed something else was going on. Then again, the subject was a 
warning.

>> It could be something similar to Ford Prefect not working as a joke in
>> the US and Macintosh not in Europe. I mean we might have a thread with a
>> regional audience.
> 
> Maybe, but there's nothing that I'm aware of that prohibits such a thread 
> in these forums.....

No, but it would be nice to know that I am not meant to understand it. 
OTOH we have changed topics from book collections to apes even when we 
knew that some here could not understand what was going on.

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