>X-
> > 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.
Huh?
Chris H.
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