English joke

[Joe Sull]

Anyway, this horse walks into a pub, in England I must stress, and asks the bartender for a pint of bitter.  "Sure", says the bartender, "but what's with the long face"?

nEED i SAY more!

[ribbert]

Come on.... WHERE'S ONE OF THE eNGLISH GUYS, I NEED ONE TO BACK ME UP HERE!

Oh! Oh! Hold on! I know this one!

"Biiiiiiiiiiiiig Dig" Gotta remember that; Thanks Noel. but I digress......

Their all in the pub having a pint.  

Yes, well, FeralRdr missed the joke at the joke which only confirms my belief that humour is a risky business on a global forum. Subtle regional differences make side splitters in some parts of the world head scratchers in others.

Unless the humour is 2"x 4" in the face obvious it won't have universal appeal, let alone be understood. And, delivery has a lot to do with it. A good joke teller will have them lying in the aisles before he/she even gets to the funny part.

Australia was raised (still is) on American television, is over run with Poms and we have, like most other places, our own unique humour except no one else gets that because we are not exported to the world. We are exposed to it all.
Australian movies released in the States for example often have the script modified because they don't get the humour. To us, they have just taken the best bits out.

That said, there are still a lot of very funny jokes passed on here.  BTW, I like the "long face" one. I like those quick one liners.



Noel