Sorry, Chris, but 'Huh?' what?
You've just said nowt.
And where did 'X-' come from?
db
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Hayden" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: Apologies If This Joke Has Made The Rounds
> >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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