| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
| Total number of notes: | 42769 |
In the spirit of "Elementary, my dear Watson," there are a large number of jokes based on "Pardon me boy, is this the Chatanooga Choo-choo?" An article in the NY Times magazine a number of years back ran a series of these. Here are a couple: (1) Nixon was vacating the oval office after Ford was sworn in. Ford said, "Well, Richard, let me know if there's anything I can do for you." Nixon said: "Pardon me, boy, 'cause I'm the chap who knew to choose you." (2) A man was complaining to a friend about his cat, who was getting into and ruining everything around the house. Just then he noticed that the penny loafers he had just bought were ripped to shreds. That did it! He and the friend went searching around the house to find the cat. The friend came down the stairs carrying the animal, and said: "Pardon me, boy, is this the cat who chewed your new shoes?" P.S. I did a search and was unable to find this obvious topic elsewhere in the conference; if I missed it somewhere, sorry. Brian
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| 746.1 | Another attempt | VMSDEV::WIBECAN | The hungry bailiff blinks | Tue Jan 09 1990 23:03 | 11 |
Well, this topic doesn't seem to spark anyone's creative juices, but here's another one anyway: A woman and her son were having dinner at the home of a friend. The son was being very rude, talking with his mouth full, interrupting people, and changing the topic of conversation -- often all three simultaneously. After a while, the woman said: "Pardon my boy, he likes to chat anew and chew food." Brian | |||||