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Hoops13's avatar

Maria Machado, a VENEZUELAN has won the prize! Lol we can hear the Trump fume from here

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Hoops13's avatar

I loved that 1998 L&H website. Look at its glorious simplicity. Let’s all get in a time machine and go back to 98/99, and watch TMWRNJ live on Sundays again.

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Mark Swift's avatar

All you need to do is invent seven or eight conflicts. Don’t worry if you can’t name 14 to 16 Countries, just make them up. Then claim to have ended those conflicts. That will at least put you in the running. Add to that the fact you did all that with only one bollock and I think you’d be a shoo-in.

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Jonathan Burton's avatar

Apologies for not keeping the word count updated - I switched jobs which meant I no longer had a commute. Still read it every day though.

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Richard Herring's avatar

It’s not good enough Jon! (It’s probably best I don’t know) thanks for your long term support/indulgence!

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Rev Shoo's avatar

a farmer won a Nobel Prize too, for being out standing in his field

The judges particularly praised his stile

then the bloke who invented the door knocker etc etc

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Pete's avatar

Well done with that joke Rich; I think the Nobel Committee would appreciate it. I spend some time on a very childish low traffic comedy list website, and there's a list for jokes that people claim to have written themselves, but I'm always suspicious that they've been lifted or lightly adapted from elsewhere. Not that I'm suggesting that about yours! I think the whiff of familiarity just comes from your brain expecting that the joke must have already been made, even if it hasn't. The top joke on that list is 'I don't know what synaesthesia is, but it sounds cool.' Which is clever, but I personally prefer number two on the list: "Dad, is it OK to fuck Grandma?" "No! Absolutely not!" "Well, is it OK to look at her fanny?" "That's a grey area." I like the improbable set up as much as the punchline. Let me know if that's something you heard in the playground in Cheddar in 1979 or subsequently, and I will take issue with the claimed originator!

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Richard Herring's avatar

I did make it up, though I am sure others will have at least done the no bell. The air campanologist bit might elevate it a little. Though not many puns haven’t been thought of before

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Richard Herring's avatar

I’ve googled “air campanology” and there’s nothing there! So I think I invented it

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Richard Herring's avatar

Yes, the accepted joke is something along the lines of "Did you hear about the guy who invented the knock knock joke? He won the "no-bell" prize!" or why didn't the scientiest have a doorbell etc

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Rev Shoo's avatar

Oh for the year when John Wayne Bobbit won the joke

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