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Re: Jokes

Postby lliam » Thu Jul 10, 2003 2:28 pm

"Strange but Clever Advertising..."
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On a hospital door to the colonoscopy unit: "To expedite your visit, please back in."

On a plumber's truck: "We repair what your husband fixed."

On the trucks of a plumbing company: "Don't sleep with a drip. Call your plumber."

Pizza shop slogan: "7 days without pizza makes one weak."

Another pizza shop slogan: "Buy our pizza. We knead the dough."

At a tyre shop: "Invite us to your next blow-out."

Door of a plastic surgeon's office: "Hello. Can we pick your nose?"

At a towing company: "We don't charge an arm and a leg. We want tows."

On a taxidermist's window: "We really know our stuff."

In a podiatrist's office: "Time wounds all heels."

At a car dealership: "The best way to get back on your feet -- miss a car payment."

At the electric company: "We would be de-lighted if you pay your bill. However, if you don't, you will be."

In a restaurant window: "Don't stand there and be hungry. Come on in and get fed up."

In the front yard of a funeral home: "Drive carefully. We'll wait."

At a propane filling station: "Tank heaven for little grills."

And don't forget the sign at a radiator shop: "Best place in town to take a leak."
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Re: Jokes

Postby bignaf » Thu Jul 10, 2003 8:14 pm

ROTFLMAO. some are quite U.K.ish in flavor.
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Re: Jokes

Postby priya978 » Fri Jul 11, 2003 1:11 am

I've always wondered what is is the Brits state of mentality? What do they find funny? And what are their views on us American. Pardon my ignorance, just want to expand my culture.
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Re: Jokes

Postby OperaTenor » Fri Jul 11, 2003 1:52 am

Hi E, to get a bead on it, I strongly suggest viewing Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail. The epitome of english humor, IMO. :D


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Jim: "African or European?"

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Re: Jokes

Postby priya978 » Fri Jul 11, 2003 2:06 am

I've seen the preveiws for it but I never get the pun?? :D :p
It's like when I first first heard the Turandot recording me being practically 200% German at the time as far as my musical trainging went all those big, flexed rubatos, etc. I was thinking OMG!!!! What's wrong!! Where am I?? Are they in this bar, why is that not written in the score??

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Re: Jokes

Postby Selma in Sandy Eggo » Fri Jul 11, 2003 8:59 am

For shame, eugene. Find a buddy or three, rent the Holy Grail, break out chips and soda, and order a pizza or two. Watch the movie. Fall off the couch. Learn to play the coconuts. Enjoy the English to Japanese to English retranslation. Send out for a shrubbery.

If you need a second suggestion for a double feature, Attack of the Killer Tomatos is always good. You can sing along with that one.

These are basic cultural icons. You can't communicate properly without familiarity. After all, we're not in Kansas anymore.
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Re: Jokes

Postby OperaTenor » Fri Jul 11, 2003 10:21 am

I didn't know Attack of the Killer Tomatoes was British... ;)
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Re: Jokes

Postby Selma in Sandy Eggo » Fri Jul 11, 2003 10:35 am

Attack of the Killer Tomatos isn't british, silly, it's Sandy Eggan. The stadium where they end the movie is the old Balboa Stadium.

It's just a good second feature, following SFtHG. After Monty Python, I'm just silly enough for the tomato flick to work...

Personally, I find a modest blood alcohol level helps, too. But I don't suggest that for the newbies.
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Re: Jokes

Postby Selma in Sandy Eggo » Fri Jul 11, 2003 10:36 am

My cough medicine just kicked in. I think that I shall go taunt a hamster.
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Re: Jokes

Postby OperaTenor » Fri Jul 11, 2003 10:39 am

Ah, but being silly is a thoroughly British characteristic, is it not? Does that mean I'm British? :p
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Re: Jokes

Postby Shapley » Fri Jul 11, 2003 11:04 am

Might I suggest renting the Fawlty Towers collection?

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Re: Jokes

Postby BenODen » Fri Jul 11, 2003 11:29 am

Also, I don't know how easy it is to track down, or whether I have the names right, but two episodes of "Bean" particularly exemplify silly. More sight gag than verbal wit, but a scream none the less:

A day at the pool
and
Lunch in the Park

Just my $0.02 (Hey, that's almost the same as two deci-bits) on british humor.

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Re: Jokes

Postby OperaTenor » Fri Jul 11, 2003 11:42 am

Hey Ben, did you ever see the old Mr. Bean Christmas special where he stuffs the turkey?

I saw both of those episodes, and the Christmas one is at least as silly as those.

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Re: Jokes

Postby BenODen » Fri Jul 11, 2003 12:31 pm

*laugh* No, I haven't seen that one! I can see how that could turn silly though! Struggling with a bird... (not so dead animal gag perhaps) I'll have to track that down! I see amazon has a couple of Bean DVDs, so they may have to go on my list...

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Re: Jokes

Postby Jeff Dutton » Fri Jul 11, 2003 12:42 pm

Originally posted by Selma in San Diego:
Attack of the Killer Tomatos isn't british, silly, it's Sandy Eggan. The stadium where they end the movie is the old Balboa Stadium.
Hi Selma - I lived in Sandy Eggo for 7 years (emigrated to Sioux Falls in 1991) and I don't remember Balboa Stadium. Might I have known it by another name? Was it in Balboa Park?

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Re: Jokes

Postby Selma in Sandy Eggo » Fri Jul 11, 2003 2:30 pm

Ben: I think I recall the schtick with the turkey - it ends up with Bean's head stuffed into the turkey. If I'm not confusing it with something else.

Jeff: The Balboa Stadium might have been before your time, if you left that recently. It's gone, and has been overgrown by the City College campus. I think it was about where the intersections of Ash and 14th would be, if they went through. Tomatos is a really old movie.

The Chargers used to play in that stadium, before they built the one in Mission Valley. You got to it by taking US395 south through the Park to B, made a left, made another left, started hunting for a place to park, and when successful started to walk. If you were really lucky, and agile, you could park in the back of the SDHS campus, hop the fence, and get in that way.

It's not the same thing as Balboa Bowl, which IS in the park, but it's an ampitheater and not a stadium. But that's another thing.
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Re: Jokes

Postby Jeff Dutton » Fri Jul 11, 2003 4:51 pm

Yep, Balboa stadium was definitely already gone before I got there.
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Re: Jokes

Postby dkm32 » Fri Jul 11, 2003 5:29 pm

Making silly (stupid?) movies isn't always a career killer (pun intended)...

Attack of the Killer Tomatos was produced by Steve Peace, once county councilman, now advisor to our Gov. Davis.

BTW: It has been translated into German!
BTW2: Attack of the Killer Tomatos II was recently made.
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Re: Jokes

Postby OperaTenor » Fri Jul 11, 2003 6:43 pm

Hi Selma, that's the one.
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Re: Jokes

Postby dai bread 1 » Sat Jul 12, 2003 3:51 pm

Is Benny Hill's work still around? IMO he beats Bean & Python. Though the sequence in "Life of Brian" where our hero appears naked at the window is one of the all-time greats, unbeaten anywhere.
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