I'm STILL pounding the table laughing at this one

[thatcrazycajun]

Courtesy of braider, over on ohiblather's LJ page, something I obviously somehow missed bedlamhouse doing at last year's GAFilk...dangit!

The Toast of the Four Peoples:
Here's to the Welsh, who pray (prey?) in church on Sunday, and on their neighbors all the other days of the week;
Here's to the Scots, who keep the Sabbath - and everything else they can get their hands on;
Here's to the Irish, who don't know what they're fighting for, but will damn sure fight to the death for it;
and here's to the English, who claim to be a self-made people, thereby absolving the Almighty of a grave responsibility...

(That last one was where I abso-frakking-lutely lost it; I gasped for breath and pounded the table for five solid minutes, no lie. I'm still rendered helpless every time I read it again. And about that third one: William, me boyo, my beloved Songbird singing_phoenix is Irish on both sides of her family; if I was you, I'd be prepared to run like Cerberus himself was after me if I said that within earshot of her. You do NOT want to arouse an Irishwoman's temper.)

Comments

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

ou do NOT want to arouse an Irishwoman's temper

No, I'd be more likely to spend my time trying to arouse things other than her temper. ;)

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

Robert, me boyo, you better hope she doesn't read THAT if you don't want her to blush clear down to her shoes...and then slap you. :-)

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

Who says he doesn't want that?

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

I suspect he'd consider the slap a fair trade for the blush. *G*

Rude joke this reminds me of

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Heh. This one violated my never-tell-ethnic-jokes-you're-not-one-of rule. Please forgive, in advance.

here's to the English, who claim to be a self-made people, thereby absolving the Almighty of a grave responsibility

Do you know why the sun never set on the British Empire?













Because God didn't trust Englishmen in the dark.