JUST FOR A LAUGH

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6. It’s not possible!!! I’m going to have to walk the dogs more often.

7. I never should have drunk that coffee at the end of October…

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Munguin’s thanks to Andi.

51 thoughts on “JUST FOR A LAUGH”

  1. Pic1, I misread the word on the box and took the guy in the bunnet to be Charlie’s newly appointed Groom of the Stool, come to empty said commode.
    Funny things, words…

    Pic9 is an outrageous fake perpetrated upon one of the world’s great golfers.
    Trump never played from the rough, averring that someone must have thrown the ball off the fairway after he laid it up perfectly. (strange that, for a man loved by everybody…)
    He habitually just kicked the ball onto the fairway and played from there – playing more shots with his feet than the club.
    Behind his back, the caddies called him Pelé…

    Pic14.
    Quick Animal Fact : this is a bison.
    Bison bison no less – so good they named it a couple of times…
    Buffaloes are Old-World animals.

    Some crackers tonight, Tris. 😀

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    1. 🙂 🙂
      Wiki: In English usage, the term buffalo dates to 1625 in North America, when the term was first recorded for the American mammal. The word buffalo is derived from the French “bœuf,” a name given to bison when French fur trappers working in the US in the early 1600s saw the animals. The word bœuf came from what the French knew as true buffalo, animals living in Africa and Asia.

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        2. Yes Tris….Leave it to the French to complicate things. 🙂 You’ll also recall that the French are responsible for Bill Clinton’s state being pronounced Ar-KanSAW, rather than Ar- KanZAS…….even though the six letters are identical, and represent the plural form of the same native American tribe…….the Kansa (or Kanza) people. This originated with the naming of a river (the “river of the Kansas”), and the different way the British and the French pronounced the plural “Kansas.”

          https://www.businessinsider.com/why-we-pronounce-kansas-and-arkansas-differently-2014-2

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          1. LOL, Danny. Imagine having letters in a word that you don’t pronounce, eh? What a thought, though. 🙂

            Mind you, when the last letter of a French workd is not usually pronounced, but is followed by a word starting in a vowel sound it IS pronounced…

            So if I buy some Arkansas Eggs, presumably it would return to the English pronunciation.

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            1. OMG Tris……that could be yet another “Kansas” complication….LOL.

              There’s an Arkansas River, a major tributary of the Mississippi, which rises in the Colorado Rockies and flows through four states, including BOTH Kansas and Arkansas. Within the state of Kansas, the river is generally called the AR-Kansas, whereas in Colorado, Oklahoma, and Arkansas, it’s the ArkanSAW. 🙂

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      2. Thanks for that, Danny.
        Very interesting – I have no beef with that…

        The technical term for these animals in Scotland would of course be “Magna brunneis boves”. (big broon coos)
        This is what the locals called the animals appearing at Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show in Glasgow, although whether they were true Bison bison is uncertain and were likely domestic breeds being claimed as the genuine article.
        Show business, eh?…

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        2. LOL morego…….Excellent! 🙂

          Thanks for that. I didn’t know about American and European Bison naming…….Bison bison vs Bison bonasus.

          Buffalo Bill wouldn’t let anything stand in the way of a good show. Chief Sitting Bull of the Lakota Sioux (of Custer’s Last Stand fame) toured with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show for a time, but whether or not he ever joined one of the British or European tours seems to be variously reported.

          https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-sitting-bull

          https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/when-sitting-bull-came-to-salford-1177215

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          1. Thanks Danny.
            I know that a number of Native Americans visited Glasgow with Cody but I’ve never seen reference to the great Sitting Bull being in the city.
            Apparently, the biggest problem with the Sioux was getting them out of the pubs when the shows were ready to start!
            The locals took to them and loved the whole spectacle, standing drinks for them – which they were polite enough not to refuse…

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            1. LOL morego……Great story!

              I’m pretty sure that Cody asked Sitting Bull to join the first UK/European tour, but he declined. He joined the show for a brief period in 1885, nine years after the Custer battle.

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitting_Bull

              You might find this interesting…..or not. 🙂

              In southern Montana, just across the northern border of Wyoming, east of Yellowstone:

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              1. Thanks Danny.
                That video was fascinating.
                Great to see the actual locations of historic sites and take in the enormous landscape of the western prairies.

                I note that Wiki has Buffalo Bill’s show visiting Denniston in Glasgow between November 1891 and February 1892, and it appears that Sitting Bull wasn’t there.
                This was when The Ghost Shirt – a story in itself and recently returned to the Lakota peoples – was sold to Kelvingrove Museum.
                The show toured Europe eight times between 1887 and 1906, so it must have been popular – and lucrative! 🙂

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    2. Ha ha, Morego. From what you read about Old King Dole (as in he should be on it), I’m sure he has just such a person on his staff, paid for by us!

      When you are as good at everything as the Sainted Trump is, you are bound to be on the receiving end of some outrageous liberty taking with the truth.

      If Trump hadn’t concentrated on business, politics and spreading his charm with the ladies around the world, he could have shown Nick Faldo a thing or two… or given his age, Arnold Palmer?

      Oh dear, Mr Bison-Bison, Munguin sends his apologies. He’ll try not to get that wrong again. Happily, you appear not to have wings either.

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  2. Just for Laughs……hopefully…..

    1. I got a text saying that I’ve won either £100 cash or tickets to an Elvis Presley tribute act…

    They said to press 1 for the money, 2 for the show!

    2. Wife: Do you want dinner?

    Husband: Sure, what are my choices?

    Wife: Yes and no.

    3. I was in a taxi today and the driver said

    “I love my job. I’m my own boss. Nobody tells me what to do.”

    Then I said: “Turn left here.”

    4. I said to the wife, “I’ve lost the dictionary.”

    She said, “Have you looked upstairs?”

    I said, “I can’t look up anything!”

    5. When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.

    6. I got sacked from the Salvation Army soup kitchen yesterday.

    All I said was “Hurry up for God’s sake, some of us have got homes to go to!”

    7. My email password has been hacked again…

    That’s the third time I’ve had to rename the cat!

    8. The missus said, “You know if I ever got Alzheimer’s, I would go in a home rather than be a burden to you.”

    I said “That’s the 5th time you told me that today!”

    9. Just as we were heading to bed, the missus asked, “Did you put the wheelie bin out?”

    “Er no, I’ll do it in the morning,” I replied.

    “What about the cat?” she said.

    So I said, “Well, I’ll ask him, but I don’t think he’ll be able to push it!”

    That’s all folks….Thank God you say…..though there is a joke that SHOULD be doing the rounds today…..that is the BBC’s director general, Tim Davie, declaring his (and thus the BBC’s) founding principle to be “impartiality”…..he forgot to add ” except for viewers in Scotland”…….Badum Tish indeed…..

    Have a nice day everyone

    🙂

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  3. Great selection.

    Just popping out to buy a bank for £1, seems that’s the going rate.

    Just checked behind the sofa , great news I can buy 3, found a £2 coin.

    No laughing, that’s the third USA bank to collapse, the rich cynic says not to panic.

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  5. So well put together, only missed out the ‘compassionate’ trip to Rwanda.
    There’s a good video of Neil taking apart the treasury minister who couldn’t answer questions on the economy.
    The reduced talent in the tory party becomes apparent.

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  6. It’s on Max Robespierre’s site

    Andrew Neil’s car crash interview with tory minister.

    Are they practicing for the Canute stop the boats on the beaches video?

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      1. She takes a massive sum from the public purse, so she knows something about finances at least. £100k or so per year. Nice eh. Some people might think that money could be better spent.

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        1. Once again.

          We have ministers who haven’t a clue what they are doing and we have had over the last few years.

          Rees Mogg (we will get our ideas from S*n Readers), Alistair Jack (who blocked Scottish legislation but didn’t understand it and refused to attend in Edinburgh to explain it… because he was out of his depth). Nadine (who thought that Channel Four was funded by the government and embarrassingly was told that it wasn’t by a TORY MP).

          And that’s before you start on Johnson, Hancock, Hunt, Truss and her “friend” who wrecked what little there was left of the economy.

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    3. She reminds me of Nad the Impaled.

      He’s right though. They lost a lot of good people under Johnson, and they had to promote some of them to ministerial level.

      Someone like Thatcher or Major would never have had lightweights like that in their team.

      And I suspect if they had made fools of themselves like she just did, on tv, there would have been a warning: Smarten up and know your stuff next time, or else!

      But who would they promote?

      They are left with the dregs.

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  7. Very good Andi! 🙂
    I wonder if the Stone of Destiny has yet been transported to the Abbey and been installed in the throne for the big event. Presumably the English are allowed to borrow it for coronations these days. They apparently have promised to return it. 🙂

    Speaking of coronations, the previous one occurred in the very early days of television. In those days before live transatlantic television was possible, there was a great race between the two major American television networks, NBC and CBS, to be the first to get film of Elizabeth’s coronation on American television.

    https://www.americanheritage.com/great-coronation-war

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    1. Someone should steal it again and hide it until the ceremony is over.

      Then he won’t be the king of Scotland.

      Someone suggested refusing to allow it to go to England. but they would just make a huge fuss and take it anyway.

      The Brits made a big effort to get Lizzie’s coronation on tv here, but most people didn’t have sets (they were very expensive) and the tv signals only reached to the lowland belt of Scotland.

      I suppose there was a good audience for it.

      They are having street parties all over England, but so far not one has been announced in Scotland.

      It’s in May. It will probably rain anyway.

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        1. It’s amusing that fewer and fewer people now have a tv set. Certainly younger people don;t bother with them any more, here (in my experience).

          I wonder if there will be any in 20 years time

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          1. In America at least. Without TV, there would be no way to properly view the Super Bowl. 🙂
            My view is that internet video streaming is just an more unreliable way to have TV without a TV set. 🙂

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              1. We have three TV sets, two on the floor not needed anymore, sigh, but use the newer one for watching YouTube and Disney plus, via Xbox and PS4. Young folks have TV sets but to use for watching stuff on the internet or playing video games. Our aerial is not in working order and hasn’t been for years though, thankfully.

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