20-08-2020, 10:50 PM
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Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)
Thanks for dropping in Surfer.
We are missing some great contributors, but we try to soldier on, a bit of silly diversion can do no harm in these days of uncertainty and fear.
Talking about bore holes Spitty, I see you noticed that things on the atom crashing scene have gone very quiet, so did I, I was expecting great things to emerge from those experiments, but not a bleep outa them for over two years now, maybe the grants ran out and they sent all the chancers home with big bonuses and a pension, and to cap it all we still don’t know what happened to Higgs Bottom, you’d think they’d have the decency to give out a statement, even it if was only to say “After great expense and intensive research over ten years, we have finally reached the conclusion that Mr. Higgs definitely has a boil on his bottom” Talk about money for old rope.
“But how do you keep your mouth healthy?” What an annoying ad that is on the TV.
When we were kids the short answer to that would be to keep your mouth shut and don’t give any cheek, at least that way you didn’t get a fat lip from your parents and your mouth remained intact and healthy, children should be seen and not heard was all the rage back then.
Come to think of it, that’s probably why my generation can’t stop talking now, sort of making up for all the time we were ’overseen’, but never heard.
If you think I’m bad for repeating old jokes then you’ll be glad you didn’t know a former employer of mine.
He was not one for jokes really, too fond of money, but he had made this one up all by himself and thought it was the funniest thing since a ‘B’ actor became president of the USA.
In the big workshop where all the benches were there was a wood carving hanging about the exit door, it featured St. Joseph the carpenter and the child Jesus at work, Joseph was chiselling away on a piece of wood.
We used to get a lot of American buyers in and he would show them around to see how the stuff was made, good for business, when the tour was over and they came to the exit he would point to the carving above the door, and in his false American accent say.
“Hey you guys, see that Joseph fella? well I’m gonna fire him, he’s been on that same bit of wood for the past ten years”
Then he’d let out his loud donkey he-haw laugh, which is the same in any accent.
Christ i must have heard that joke about 100 times.