OK – I know it is wrong to laugh at other people’s misfortune, but there is something about this news story that tickled my funny bone. It’s not the fact that the lady fell into the volcano, but the way the incident was described in court.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coventry_warwickshire/4927502.stm
It reminds me of that old, old joke. You know, the kind of joke that has whiskers on it.
Two men are talking in the pub and the first man reveals that he’s been married three times, but is now a widower.
“You lost three wives?” asks the second man, “That’s terrible. How did they die?”
“The first one died after she accidentally ate some poison mushrooms,” the first man explains.
“And the second?” asked the second man concerned.
“It was a terrible thing. My hobby is rambling, you see. And my second wife, she ate some poison mushrooms too,” replied the first man.
“Oh my, that’s terrible luck,” replied the second man. There’s a long pause before he asks, “So what happened to the third wife?”
“She died of a fractured skull,” explained the first man, supping from his pint before adding, “The stubborn cow wouldn’t eat the mushrooms…”
Meanwhile, The Missus continues to make me do work… 🙁 Ahhh, mon petit champignon…

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