[there's a couple of attributions missing here - it's not my fault! It's
previous posters {or poseurs} whose news client isn't programmed to
quote properly]
Sense of humour can be very regional. For example, the Germans are noted to have
'no sense of humour' yet a 'German version' of a certain episode of "Monty
Python's Flying Circus" apparently had them all rolling in the aisles !
I've noted that 'mercuns don't *get* 'dry humour'. It kinda flies over the top of
their heads. But they like kiddy humour afaik which would be considered 'bad
taste' here - such as laughing about farting ( anal expulsion of foul smelling
odours ).
Well, hell. Your _own_ farts always smell OK. -- George Carlin
But back to the topic, if there was one, may Gawd bless the princess. The
original was "The princess _AND_ the pea." The point being, the princess
was oh so sensitive, that even if she had a pile of TEN mattresses on her
bed, the pea (that little fruit, or vegetable, green, comes in a pod much
like a bean, but it's green and practically spherical, usually less than a
centimeter (3/8") in diameter) hidden under that whole pile of
mattressess, disturbed her sleep. This is why, in the US anyway, there's a
thing of guy wisdom: "Don't go out with a girl whose dad calls her
'Princess' - she usually believes it."
And not ALL 'murcuns are shitheads. I, for one, really enjoy 'dry' humour,
and I get frustrated when I'm in the company of some 'murcuns and they
don't get the joke. OK, _most_ 'murcuns are shitheads, but some of us are
real gems. And after all, you can only play the hand that life deals you,
wouldn't you say? And actually, the spelling of 'mercun' itself could be
called into question - I've always spelled it 'merkin', albeit I think
that that's like Scottish for 'codpiece' or 'purse' or something.
Then again, you _never_ expect the Spanish Inquisition. ;-D
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Cheers!
Rich
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"There was a young girl from New York
Who plugged up her **** with a cork.
A woodpecker or two
Made the grade it is true,
But it totally baffled the stork.
Till along came a man who presented
A tool that was strangely indented.
With a dizzying twirl
He punctured that girl,
And thus was the cork-screw invented."