Yet more, from the Swede:
If you had the choice, what way would you like us humans to be rendered extinct?
Damn the man! That’s a better meme than mine.
Just for that, a joke about Swedes:
Once upon a time there was a young and recently-qualified commercial pilot, who got a job flying a Twin Otter floatplane [...]
Archive for the ‘Old Jokes’ Category
Old Swede
Posted in Old Jokes, tagged aviation on 29 March, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Handling procedures
Posted in Old Jokes, tagged babies on 27 March, 2009 | 10 Comments »
I know absolutely nothing about child-rearing.
Some time ago I formed the conclusion that Children are like Artillery, since both are noisy, destructive, very expensive to run, always in an embarrassing tactical position, and always surrounded by people who SHOUT ALL THE TIME.
So I am not in very much of a position to criticise the technical [...]
A night at the opera
Posted in Old Jokes, tagged Mozart on 13 November, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mr. Eugenides on Opera. Not what you’d expect.
I am not much of an opera aficionado myself, but I do remember Clive James doing the telegrams in Amnesty International’s The Secret Policeman’s Ball in 1979:
Mozart couldn’t make it, but he sent a telegram. ‘Best wishes on your brave attempt to help the victims of oppression. The [...]
Not taking this seriously
Posted in Old Jokes, tagged Do you swear... on 21 October, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This, from the Telegraph, was widely noticed.
I’m awfully sorry, but it made me laugh.
This is because I immediately remembered a cartoon from the 1970s in which a teenage girl is appearing as a witness in a court.
CLERK OF COURT Do you swear…
WITNESS You bet your sweet ass I swear. I also drink beer, smoke dope [...]
If it still doesn’t work, it’s physics
Posted in Old Jokes, tagged eu on 19 October, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In early October 2007, a major research institution announced the discovery of the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element has been named “Eurotium.”
Eurotium (Eu) has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together [...]
Guess who?
Posted in Old Jokes, tagged Dave Allen on 15 October, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ian Parker-Joseph on State Terror and its latest pitiful attempt to scare people into allowing yet more tyranny by yet more crying of ‘Wolf!’*.
IPJ is, in my case, preaching to the converted, but I do like this:
His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede [...]
Give an old joke a home
Posted in Old Jokes, tagged propaganda on 4 August, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I finally remembered the very old joke, of which I was reminded by the government’s spending more of our money on paying for commercial propaganda programmes to compete with those of the BBC.
There were two newspapers in the Soviet Union. One was called ‘Pravda’, which means ‘truth’, and was run by the Communist Party. The [...]
