The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #22330   Message #241458
Posted By: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
12-Jun-00 - 10:58 AM
Thread Name: Thought For Monday June 12: Shackleton
Subject: RE: Thought For Monday June 12
...trying to redeem myself with an old joke: "Why don't polar bears eat penguins?"
The pedantic answer is that the bears are Northern hemisphere and the penguins Southern, the jokier answer is "because they can't get the silver paper off".
[note for overseas listeners: a Penguin is a popular chocolate-covered biscuit in the UK]
RtS