"John W. Kennedy" <jwkenne@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> 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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