Ever hear the California version?
Q: How many Californians . . .
A: Seventeen. One to change the bulb and sixteen to
share the experience.
Hal
On Jul 30, 2005, at 12:20 AM, Roger Collett wrote:
> Looking back, a long way back, the version I first heard was:
>
> Q: How many Irishmen does it take to change a light bulb?
> A: 101, one to hold the bulb and a hundred to turn the house.
>
> Btw, when I was in Saudi Arabia the common British jokes about the
> Irish seemed to be extant as Saudi jokes about the Yemenis (the
> Arabian equivalent of navvies who did most of the construction
> labouring)
>
> Roger Collett
> Arrowhead Press
> http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/
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> "Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."
> Jules de Gaultier
>
>
Hal Serving the tristate area.
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