OT Joke

[The Medway Handyman]

When are you going to get to the joke?

[Dave Plowman (News)]

So is the shipping forecast.

[charles]

The joke is supposed to be that the "writer" is more worried about who is going to do the dishes and mow the lawn than the fact that her husband is dead.

[damduck-egg]

Remember he lives in the frozen north. In a Working Mens club coming from a Comedian who is trying to warm up an audience who are as cold as the husband in the tale it probably goes down well, the alternative entertainment being Karaoke or a Drag Queen boosting his pension. Most of the audience will be hypnotised by a mirror ball which is just as well since the smoking ban means the punters are no longer hidden from each other by a pall of smoke and can see how years of poor diet, toil and inbreeding has made them ugly.

G.Harman

[Mr Pounder Esquire]

Well, it's given you lot something to talk about. You have been entertained by a bad joke I live in the superior north. I've seen the south and you can keep it, but you already knew that.

[ARW]

Why do they still call them Working Mens Clubs? They are full of pensioners and unemployed people.

[damduck-egg]

Wales rather than the English industrial Counties but this Melancholic Music Video sums up that situation quite well.

G.Harman