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Wasn't Mick Murphy the baker in Chigley?
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Uno Hoo wrote: tilly wrote: Mick Murphy and Pat go to the lumber yard to see the foreman.What do you want he says we have come for the jobs they tell him. but i can only set two of you on he says well it says out side tree fellers wanted. However, Tilly, according to your account there's only two applicants, Mick Murphy and Pat. I realise you may have meant Mick, Murphy, and Pat. But if so, why has either Murphy got no first name, or Mick and Pat have no surname(s)? Or, for yet more clarity you could have said the three Murphys - if indeed all three share the same surname - or it could have been Mick, Seamus (say), and Pat. To have two first names and one surname is somewhat inconsistent. It's always possible, of course, that you had forgotten, or indeed may never have known Murphy's first name, but had you improvised, as I did above with Seamus, it would have reduced confusion, and would have enabled me, and, for all I know, countless others, to see the point of the punchline, as we would have realised from the start that there were in fact three potential arboreal demolition operatives required in the eyes of said applicants, whereas the lead-in without a comma after Mick does create a degree of uncertainty in the reader which is not fully resolved by the denouement.I'm so pleased to have made the situation crystal clear. Hi Uno Hoo I see your point i think.lol
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A man goes to the doctors,No it was not Murphy,and says.My memory is really bad so the doctor says can you give me an example so the man says i can be in the pub talking with my friends, then all of a sudden my mind goes blank and i forget what i am talking about.The doctor says how long have you been like that?And the man says like what.
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Doctors now say its OK to have sex after a heart attack.Please remember to close the ambulance door!
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tilly wrote: A man goes to the doctors,No it was not Murphy,and says.My memory is really bad so the doctor says can you give me an example so the man says i can be in the pub talking with my friends, then all of a sudden my mind goes blank and i forget what i am talking about.The doctor says how long have you been like that?And the man says like what. How may we be certain it wasn't Murphy? After all, according to the evidence you've presented, he'd be unlikely to be able to remember his own name!
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Uno Hoo wrote: tilly wrote: A man goes to the doctors,No it was not Murphy,and says.My memory is really bad so the doctor says can you give me an example so the man says i can be in the pub talking with my friends, then all of a sudden my mind goes blank and i forget what i am talking about.The doctor says how long have you been like that?And the man says like what. How may we be certain it wasn't Murphy? After all, according to the evidence you've presented, he'd be unlikely to be able to remember his own name! There is nothing strange about that with a name like Murphy.Has a matter of interest i have just been reading about an Irish kamikaze pilot in the last war who flew twenty missions.
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tilly wrote: Uno Hoo wrote: tilly wrote: A man goes to the doctors,No it was not Murphy,and says.My memory is really bad so the doctor says can you give me an example so the man says i can be in the pub talking with my friends, then all of a sudden my mind goes blank and i forget what i am talking about.The doctor says how long have you been like that?And the man says like what. How may we be certain it wasn't Murphy? After all, according to the evidence you've presented, he'd be unlikely to be able to remember his own name! There is nothing strange about that with a name like Murphy.Has a matter of interest i have just been reading about an Irish kamikaze pilot in the last war who flew twenty missions. What a coincidence! I have just read an account of a Chinese kamikaze pilot, named Chou Min, who didn't fly any missions. Apparently his nickname was "Chicken" Chou Min.
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Uno Hoo wrote: tilly wrote: Uno Hoo wrote: tilly wrote: A man goes to the doctors,No it was not Murphy,and says.My memory is really bad so the doctor says can you give me an example so the man says i can be in the pub talking with my friends, then all of a sudden my mind goes blank and i forget what i am talking about.The doctor says how long have you been like that?And the man says like what. How may we be certain it wasn't Murphy? After all, according to the evidence you've presented, he'd be unlikely to be able to remember his own name! There is nothing strange about that with a name like Murphy.Has a matter of interest i have just been reading about an Irish kamikaze pilot in the last war who flew twenty missions. What a coincidence! I have just read an account of a Chinese kamikaze pilot, named Chou Min, who didn't fly any missions. Apparently his nickname was "Chicken" Chou Min. Also known to his friends has number six.Hope you get that one its the way i tell em.
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tilly wrote: Uno Hoo wrote: tilly wrote: Uno Hoo wrote: tilly wrote: A man goes to the doctors,No it was not Murphy,and says.My memory is really bad so the doctor says can you give me an example so the man says i can be in the pub talking with my friends, then all of a sudden my mind goes blank and i forget what i am talking about.The doctor says how long have you been like that?And the man says like what. How may we be certain it wasn't Murphy? After all, according to the evidence you've presented, he'd be unlikely to be able to remember his own name! There is nothing strange about that with a name like Murphy.Has a matter of interest i have just been reading about an Irish kamikaze pilot in the last war who flew twenty missions. What a coincidence! I have just read an account of a Chinese kamikaze pilot, named Chou Min, who didn't fly any missions. Apparently his nickname was "Chicken" Chou Min. Also known to his friends has number six.Hope you get that one its the way i tell em. That's strange. It's number 24 on the menu that's just been pushed through my letterbox,
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Uno Hoo wrote: tilly wrote: Uno Hoo wrote: tilly wrote: Uno Hoo wrote: tilly wrote: A man goes to the doctors,No it was not Murphy,and says.My memory is really bad so the doctor says can you give me an example so the man says i can be in the pub talking with my friends, then all of a sudden my mind goes blank and i forget what i am talking about.The doctor says how long have you been like that?And the man says like what. How may we be certain it wasn't Murphy? After all, according to the evidence you've presented, he'd be unlikely to be able to remember his own name! There is nothing strange about that with a name like Murphy.Has a matter of interest i have just been reading about an Irish kamikaze pilot in the last war who flew twenty missions. What a coincidence! I have just read an account of a Chinese kamikaze pilot, named Chou Min, who didn't fly any missions. Apparently his nickname was "Chicken" Chou Min. Also known to his friends has number six.Hope you get that one its the way i tell em. That's strange. It's number 24 on the menu that's just been pushed through my letterbox, He must have gone up in the world.lol
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