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Fawlty Towers: Top, top sarcasm

Mr. Johnson: “Anywhere they do French food?” Basil Fawlty: “Yes, France I believe. They seem to like it there, and the swim would certainly sharpen your appetite. You’d better hurry, the tide leaves in six minutes.”

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A Comprehensive Analysis

A truck loaded with thousands of copies of Roget’s Thesaurus crashed yesterday losing its entire load. Witnesses were stunned, startled, aghast, taken aback, stupefied, confused, shocked, rattled, paralyzed, dazed, bewildered, mixed up, surprised, awed, dumbfounded, nonplussed, flabbergasted, astounded, amazed, confounded, … Continue reading

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The perfect gift for an IKEA manager

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It was tough in my day

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How New Zealanders amuse themselves

“The first sausage arrived in my letterbox in the summer of 2022,” Jacob Coetzee told reporters in Surfdale, on Auckland’s Waiheke Island, “wrapped in white buttered bread, coated in tomato sauce, and looking as if it had been barbecued. I … Continue reading

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A Drinking Ritual

A cowboy walked into a bar and ordered three bottles of Bud. He sipped each one in turn. After finishing, he ordered three more.The bartender said, “They’d taste better if you got one at a time.”The cowboy sniffed tearily, “Well, … Continue reading

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Aroma!

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An engineer makes a decision

An engineer saw a colleague riding on a new bike and asked where he got it. “I was walking in the park when a beautiful woman rode up on this bike. She stopped, took all her clothes off and said, ‘Take … Continue reading

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Atheism Explained

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A Fab (Back) Four

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