Only the Brits..

[Bill Bowley]

Would make a washing liquid commercial like this!

At least we Australians can understand (and enjoy) Brit humour, but I think the Yanks miss the point entirely......

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/2 ... 71157.html

[Tone]

That's brilliant, Bill.

It occurred to me that most of the jokes and stories that regularly appear on this and other forums (recent examples such as Bojan's "Thermodynamics of Hell" and Derek's "Eat Your Bran Flakes") clearly originate from the US. We laugh at them despite the perception that the British sense of humour is different from the Yanks'. Perhaps this ad shows that ours is just more wide ranging!

Cheers.

Tony

[stratmantd]

Obviously a cinema advert at a minute and a half long and never going to be shown on TV, even after the watershed, although there is no reason not to. Some of the cinema versions of ads are so much better than their TV equivalents.

Some of the humourous stories have been doing the rounds for years. I wonder where Bojan got his version of the Hell story because the ending is the total opposite of all the other versions that I have seen.

Bojan's last paragraph is:

So which is it? If we accept the postulate given to me by Theresa during my Freshman year that, "it will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you", and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number 2 must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct...leaving only Heaven thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Theresa kept shouting Oh my God !!!

The usual ending is:

If we accept the postulate given to me by Ms Theresa Banyan during my Freshman year that "It will be a cold night in Hell before I sleep with you," and take into account the fact that I still have not succeeded in having sexual relations with her, then #2 cannot be true, and so Hell is exothermic.

The student got the only A.

To me, the usual ending is funnier and more in keeping with the whole story. Bojan's version has added a crude religious element to the story that is not required. Not only that, it has got the exo/endo argument the wrong way round. It seems that variations around Europe show different senses of humour amongst our neighbours.

btw, as was already established, everyone goes to Hell and therefore no-one goes to Heaven. So, even if Hell did freeze over (endothermic) the souls would still not go to Heaven because of religious dogma and so Heaven would be extinct too.

And now, to lighten the mood, and offend as many as like to pretend that they are offended:

Two nuns are driving down the road one night when a vampire jumps onto the bonnet of their car. The nuns panic and swerve to try to throw him off but he hangs on tight. Finally the first nun tells the second one to pray that he falls off.

She does this but it only seems to aggravate the vampire so the first nun tells her to turn on the windscreen wipers and spray him with water as she always uses holy water in her wipers. She does this but again only enrages the vampire.

Then the first nun yells at the second one "Show him your cross!!!"

So the second nun hangs her head out of the window and says....

"Get the F*ck off my car!!!!"