Re: metonymous factors (or not) in humour
- From: cybuerke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 04:48:47 -0700
On Jul 29, 2:17 pm, FCS <sipston_...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<snippery>
Tommy rouses himself from his sleep and looks at his watch.
--Cor, BeJuggingJason Jonny, it's nearly 4AM. They'll be coming in to
get the early 'buses running soon. What took you so long?
--Oh, it's the way they park them here. All the ones near the doors
were the B and D routes, and they all go to the wrong side of town. It
took me all my time to find the 37C service we need go past your
place...
Now, given that I heard this joke a number of years ago--the turn of
the '80s, approximately, but am not really of the tram or trolleybus
era, I am wondering whether the joke would've worked so well for so
many people if that era, of railed and guided municipal transport, had
not happened. Indeed, whether it would've been thought up.
Can't help you with the provenance, but it works for me by virtue of
the route numbers. Rails or guides are irrelevant - everyone knows
that a 37C doesn't go to the wrong side of town.
.
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