The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #117427   Message #2598566
Posted By: Desert Dancer
27-Mar-09 - 11:00 AM
Thread Name: BS: 1st joke thread of 2009!
Subject: RE: BS: 1st joke thread of 2009!
Cross-cultural exchanges (shamelessly ripped from the steaming screens of Ballad-L) --

Have you heard about German Chinese food?
An hour later you are hungry for power. . .
..

Not unlike the guy who was half Japanese, half Jewish. Every December 7th, he attacks Pearl Schwartz.
..

So there's this linguists' convention in Dublin, and one of the visiting professors asks an Irish linguist if there is any word in Gaelic that corresponds to "mañana."

The Irish linguist thinks for a moment, and replies, "well, there is, but it doesn't convey the same sense of urgency.