Lurk McBurk wrote:
> Sir Dynadan is known as a jokester, though the only joke that is
recorded is
> the following joke told to the High Prince, as a jest because the High
> Prince hated fish:
>
> "It would appear you are a cousin to the wolves, not eating fish but
instead
> eating only flesh."
>
> First, what does this joke even mean? Everybody laughed at it. Second,
he
> told this same joke twice in a single week to the same man. Would this
joke
> be funny twice?
199. Two Brothers coming to be executed
once for fome enormous Crime ; the Eldeft was
firft turn'd off, without faying one Word :
The other mounting the Ladder, began to ha-
rangue the Crowd, whofe Ears were attentive-
ly open to hear him, expecting fome Confef-
fion from him, "Good People," fays he, "my Bro-
ther hangs before my Face, and you fee what
a lamentable SPECTACLE he makes ; in a few Mo-
ments I fhall be turned off too, and then you'll
fee a Pair of SPECTACLES."
-- Joe Miller's Jests
or
the WITS Vade-me***
MDCCXXXIX
--
John W. Kennedy
"But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake."
-- Charles Williams. "Judgement at Chelmsford"
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