> Took me a minute but I finally got it.
Really? What interests me about it, rather than its role in a category of
poetic jokes, is in its character as 'joke' and its survival as such, I must
have heard versions of this as long as twenty years back, in days of pubtalk
long gone, but, always, there were certain ritualistic elements in it that
were consistent, such as the number of quoting patients, while too its
transition from what is told, in the ear, to memory's that might lapse, to a
written form, where for example the Scots dialect is far more extensive, is
far better 'textured', and incidentally much more fun to read, rather than a
brute transcript of an oral version. 'Composition' has come into play, but
over a basis that is both time-worn and fundamentally simple.
But you can still see the punch-line coming a mile off.
cheers
david b.
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From: "Chris Hayden" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 6:40 PM
Subject: Re: Apologies If This Joke Has Made The Rounds
> "This is the Serious Burns
> >Unit."
> >
> Took me a minute but I finally got it. I dig jokes like this, remind me
of
> the punchlines on Mr. Peabody's Improbable Histories.
>
> More Poetic jokes!
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