The Lost Mouse

[hembo]

newt check out abbotsbury at its best in the sea fishing section

[Guest Rabbit]

I normally dont look at your 'jokes' but as this one had a few replies I thought it must have been bad, it wasn't it was AWFUL

[Patrizia]

Hi,

 

maybe it's because I'm german, but I didn't get that one! But you've got a funny avatar-picture!

 

No offence, Hembo.

 

Patty

Edited March 30, 2007 by Patrizia

[Newt]

Never lock a gift mouse in the hearse. - a play on words based on an English saying, "never look a gift horse in the mouth" or in other words, if you are offered something nice, don't pry into the circumstances.

 

The puns that Hembo is fond of posting (and that I am even more fond of reading) are probably difficult to impossible for someone who is not a native English speaker regardless of how fluent their English is.

[Patrizia]

Hi Newt,

 

thanks for explaining that to me. We have the same saying in german, but I didn't now, that it was based on that. Now it actually is funny.

 

Patty

[Puzzled]

Hi Newt,

 

thanks for explaining that to me. We have the same saying in german, but I didn't now, that it was based on that. Now it actually is funny.

 

Patty

 

Patty, please don't let Hembo think that he's funny, it will only encourage him.

It's traditional in England to groan at his type of puns - the louder the groan, the worse the pun.

And Hembo has tapped into a selection of pretty awful stuff.

 

 

Mind you, I'd be pretty proud of some of them if I'd posted them.......

[hembo]

thank you

[Newt]

For instance:

 

When Pope John Paul II died, the new pope became Benedict XVI. When he dies, will he become Ex-Benedict.

[Patrizia]

Hi Puzzled.

 

All right. Hembo, that was a bad joke.

 

Hi Newt,

 

I didn't get the joke about the pope. Sorry. Please, explain.

 

Patty

[Newt]

Ex-Benedict = Eggs Benedict = two halves of an English muffin topped with smoked bacon or ham, then a poached egg with a topping of hollandaise sauce.