Showing posts with label joke. Show all posts
Showing posts with label joke. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

A Finnish Joke!

I don't know many - at least not that many in English - okay.  I admit it.  This is the ONLY Finnish joke I know!
My husband told me it this morning:

A father and his two sons are driving along a road and one son spots a hare jumping across the road and says, "A hare!"
Five minutes later, as they continue to drive, the brother says, "No it was a deer!"
Five minutes later, as they continue to drive, the father says, "Will you two stop fighting?!"

(The point of the joke being that Finnish men are very quiet and don't speak much...)
Oh and in case you're wondering - a French Canadian told my husband this joke...who apparently knows many Finns.
And yes, we know MANY Finnish men that are like this!!!

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Sometimes you have to laugh at the blind guy...


*Please be warned I'm laughing at what the blind guy did - NOT AT HIM BEING BLIND!*

Today Tim and I met with a friend, toured around Public Gardens in Halifax...we took the bus back to Dartmouth and sat near the front (as the buses don't have an empty gap for the strollers like Finnish ones)...a young blind man came on the bus and sat down.
He asked the bus driver several times where we were located and then he whips out his cell phone.

*Please note I try and not to eavesdrop...however, because I understand English...and this fellow was yelling...it was hard NOT to!*

He greets his friend with "Hi, so what's going on with that guy? Because I seriously don't think biting you should be part of friendship....No really! You just don't bite your friend - it's not part of the definition of friendship!.....Well if you sleep with him and turn your back...you know what'll happen.  HE'LL BITE YOU IN THE BACK!...Yeah! It'll be an all-night biting war!!  Yep....no really you just don't do that....You shouldn't take the word of a stranger over a good friend! I wouldn't do it to you!!!...Nope this biting has to stop.  I would put a muzzle on him!  Oh even better...get his teeth out...or put soft caps on his teeth!...Well, I guess I'll be seeing you in the next life time!  Oh and doesn't he like it up his butt?!"

This was a lengthy conversation (some swearing was in there and some other insiginicant blah blah) and I was laughing so hard that I needed a tissue and I was shaking so much that I was positive he'd realize someone was laughing at him!  (Despite having a seat between us - however the bus was thankfully noisy and busy!)

There was a fellow sitting across from me and he was listening to his cell phone or iPod...well after I heard about the biting - I started choking up and the tears were streaming down my face.
Well, by the time I managed to dig out my tissue - he was curious as to what I was laughing about - because the husband was reading some academia journal and was also chuckling.
So he popped out his ear phones and started listening and was having a grand ol' time laughing...the bus driver was snorting...

I'm surprised the bus didn't crash.