Joke Page

Several teams furnish me each week with jokes, usually of a topical nature. I have decided to put some of the better ones here for a wider audience to appreciate. Give them in at the quiz nights or e-mail them to me.

New jokes will appear at the top, here: older ones will be stored lower down.

March 19th: forwarded from Grant:

A new monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to help the other

monks in copying the old texts by hand. He notices, however, that they

are copying copies, and not the original books. So, the new monk goes

to the head monk to ask him about this. He points out that if there

was an error in the first copy, that error would be continued in all

of the other copies. The head monk says, "We have been copying from

the copies for centuries, but you make a good point, my son."

So, he goes down into the cellar with one of the copies to check it

against the original. Hours later, nobody has seen him. So, one of the

monks goes downstairs to look for him. He hears sobbing coming from

the back of the cellar and finds the head monk leaning over one of the

original books crying.

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He asks what's wrong........................

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"The word is celebrate," says the head monk.

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March 8th: courtesy of The Misfits, from The Antiquary:

Q; Why did the monkey fall out of the tree ?

A: Because it was dead.

Q: Why did the 2nd monkey fall out of the tree ?

A: It was stapled to the 1st monkey.

Q: Why did the tree fall over ?

A: It thought it was a monkey.

Thankyou, Misfits.

Mahatma Gandhi walked barefoot most of the time, which caused his feet to become extremely calloused. He also ate very little, which made him somewhat frail, and also gave him bad breath.

This made him - what ?

A super-calloused fragile mystic plagued with halitosis.

An old rugby joke, sometimes topical:

Why do Welsh women prefer English men ?

Pause

Because they can stay on top for 80 minutes and still come second !

( For those of you who don't understand this, it is a reference to the recent rugby result ! )