I've heard both versions.
Tell me more good stuff about me.
Kaylee ,'The Message'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Tom Scola - Mar 18, 2009 11:17:38 am PDT #11387 of 30000
hwæt
Toddson - Mar 18, 2009 11:19:21 am PDT #11388 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
One kind-of clean joke that always makes me smile:
A young couple has gone out on a date and afterwards they park in the local lovers' lane and start kissing. She's obviously enjoying herself, so he asks, "would you like to get in the back seat?" She says no, so they keep kissing in the front seat. As they're getting more passionate, he again asks, "would you like to get in the back seat?" She says no again and they keep on. Finally he asks, "are you SURE you don't want to get in the back seat?" and she replies, quite indignantly, "no! I want to stay in the front seat with you!"
I am easily amused.
Atropa - Mar 18, 2009 11:19:56 am PDT #11389 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb?
However many are trying to avoid tech reviewing the documentation.
t sorry, the cranky editor tag doesn't close
lisah - Mar 18, 2009 11:22:26 am PDT #11390 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
ahahahahah, Jilli! I was trying to work out a tech writer-related one. That's perfect! (Although, I have to say, my one programmer I work with most here is fantastic about turning around his doc edits.)
Kathy A - Mar 18, 2009 11:24:46 am PDT #11391 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
The other Irish joke I remember:
It's Sunday Mass, and the priest, known for his fire and brimstone homilies, is in fine form.
"On the day of judgement, God will render his decisions on you all! And he will decide if you will go to Heaven or to Hell! If you go to Heaven, he will take you to his bosom and there will be bliss ever after. But if you are wicked, he will send you to Hell. And there will be a great weeping, and a great wailing, and a terrible, horrible gnashing of the teeth!"
At this point, a little old lady in the congregation stands up, and says to the priest, "But, Father! I haven't got any teeth!"
He glares down at her and says, "Teeth will be provided!!!"
Atropa - Mar 18, 2009 11:25:07 am PDT #11392 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
ahahahahah, Jilli! I was trying to work out a tech writer-related one. That's perfect!
I'm not biased by the fact that I'm currently waiting on something like 200 topics to come back from tech review, oh no. Not at all.
Calli - Mar 18, 2009 11:27:34 am PDT #11393 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
"Teeth will be provided!!!"
Bwah!
aurelia - Mar 18, 2009 11:30:42 am PDT #11394 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I hadn't checked in on Margaret and Helen in quite a while. [link] Looks like Helen is taking on Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter
Jesse - Mar 18, 2009 11:32:24 am PDT #11395 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
What's funny (not so much funny-ha ha) about that joke, and I find to be true of most "ethnic" jokes, is that it's not actually an Irish joke -- it's just a no-teeth joke. Any old lady can have a fire-and-brimstone preacher and no teeth! (Any Christian old lady, at least...)
Kathy A - Mar 18, 2009 11:34:58 am PDT #11396 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
The way I heard it, and the way I always tell it, is complete with Irish accents. It's fun to say "But, Father! I don't have any teeth!" as "But Faaahhhther! I don' haaahhhve any taaayth!"