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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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