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Thread #28473   Message #355460
Posted By: Naemanson
12-Dec-00 - 03:49 AM
Thread Name: Your attitudes toward 'what's funny'.
Subject: RE: Your attitudes toward 'what's funny'.
Snuffy - I don't know if it was the Goodies or the Oddies anymore. It was a VERY long time ago. The power of their humor is such that these are things that have stuck with me down through the ages. On episode involved a tour of a zoolgical park faturing singers instead of animals. Rolf Harris was one of the singers. I think they were always taking shots at poor Rolf.

There is a book, Dr. Dogbody's Leg, by James (?) Nordhof (Of Nordhof and Hall who wrote Mutiny On The Bounty) that I found to be a scream. It is a simple set of short stories connected by the fact that they are told by Dr. Dogbody in a tavern in Plymouth, England, to his buddies in the years following the Napoleonic Wars. Each one is reputed to be the story of how he lost his leg. Each one is different and each is a howl. The scenes between the stories are funny as well.