judith wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:06:19 GMT, "Mike the Brewer"
> <mike.tech@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> "Blah" <bill@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> news:66hcrqF2ksuveU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> Tyler wrote:
>>>> Cork Soaker wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> : The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yeah right.
>>>> I've been having a little think about that joke and come to the
>>>> conclusion that I was right all along. It does need to be re-written.
>>>>
>>>> I would thus start the joke off:
>>>>
>>>> I was walking through the cemetery this morning and saw a bloke
>>>> *crouching at a gravestone*.
>>> Nah, that doesn't work, it would need to be tuttying down.
>>> If he was crouching it he would be leaning forward and the **** would
run
>>> down his legs
>>>
>>>
>>>> Now you don't think there is anything amiss, and would expect the
>>>> bloke to be there "mourning". When you say you saw a bloke *hiding
>>>> behind a gravestone* you expect him to be up to something out of the
>>>> ordinary (i.e. not mourning) and the punchline is less effective.
Small
>>>> detail, maybe, but we know it's the attention to detail that
>>>> makes the difference.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> # People with white earphones may bore you.
>> Oh dear ! I think I will re-name this thread........"Much ado about
>> nothing"
>>
>
>
> ****wit magnet would have been appropriate - it certainly caught one.
>
Yes Pete, certainly did. You still posting under a girlie sock?
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