On 9-6-2009 18:39, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:34:20 +0200, andrel wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Well, yeah, there is that too. :-)
> 
> Along the same lines:  
> 
> Q.  Why are you carrying that fish?
> 
> A.  Just for the halibut.
> 
You mean like Clive Anderson asking in the last episode of Have I got 
news for you after an explanation of a new cloud type: 'Are you cirrus'.

Or Stephen Fry out of character on QI with
Q: How does a chimpanzee makes toast
A: he puts it under the gorilla.

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