On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:51:33 +0200, andrel wrote:

> 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.

Pretty much, yeah. :-)

Jim

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