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.

>>> 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.

Thread drift is an art form unto itself.:-)

Jim

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