Silly jokes for a Friday afternoon
A chap starts his new job at the zoo and is given three tasks.
The first is to clear the exotic fish pool of weeds. As he does this a huge fish jumps out and bites him. To show who’s boss he beats it to death with a spade.
Realising his employer won’t be best pleased, he disposes of the fish by feeding it to the lions, as lions will eat anything.
Moving on to the second job of clearing out the chimp house, he is attacked by the chimps who pelt him with coconuts. He swipes at two chimps with a spade killing them both, what can he do?
Feed them to the lions, he says to himself, because lions eat anything. He hurls the corpses into the lion enclosure.
He gets to his last task which is to collect honey from the South American Bees.
As soon as he starts he is attacked by the bees, he grabs the spade and smashes the bees to a pulp.
By now he knows what to do and throws them into the lion’s cage because lions eat anything.
Later that day a new lion arrives at the zoo, he wanders up to another lion and says “What’s the food like here?” The other lions say…
Wait for it…
“Absolutely brilliant! today we had fish, chimps and mushy bees.”
From non blogging Jane.
Apologies to some non Brits since the punchline might leave you pondering rather than groaning.
April 22nd, 2005 14:42
oooo *groan!*
hehe
April 22nd, 2005 16:30
*chuckles*
April 22nd, 2005 18:00
hehehe
April 22nd, 2005 18:13
Hee!!
April 22nd, 2005 18:30
Darn – now I’ve got a hankering for some mushy bees and I’m all out of them.
April 22nd, 2005 18:36
mushy bees = peas? bleh.
April 22nd, 2005 18:36
The comment system hung up on me 2 times. Anyway, I get the fish and chips, but have no idea about the mushy bees. Is that what we call barbequed beans? Hmm?? Have a super lion free weekend.
April 22nd, 2005 23:09
Hilarious …. great play on words … totally unexpected … hehehe … Love it
April 23rd, 2005 12:01
This link might help overseas visitors.
April 23rd, 2005 14:47
Thanks Em, that’s a good link. I have to confess to a fondness for mushy peas although I’ve not eaten them for years. A childhood favourite would be faggots, mash and mushy peas. And here’s an article on faggots (meatballs vs offensive slang term for a gay man). Come to think of it, we used to call them rissoles as well but I don’t remember them being enrobed in pastry, another example of the Brits taken a foreign word/food item and mangling it out of all recognition. Like bimbo. I’m rambling now aren’t I?