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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.168.207.164
Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 07:56 pm:   
My Aunt Marge has been ill so long we've started calling her I Can't Believe She's not Better
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.23.74.137
Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 08:14 pm:   
Can you include us Britishers?
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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 92.232.199.129
Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 08:54 pm:   
I think you should apologise to EVERYONE for a joke like that, Weber.
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.23.74.137
Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 09:00 pm:   
I believe it won the Edinburgh Fringe Twitter joke competition last year. Lord knows why.
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Simon Bestwick (Simon_b)
Username: Simon_b

Registered: 10-2008
Posted From: 86.24.166.73
Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 09:19 pm:   
All the others were by Jimmy Carr and Russell Brand?
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.23.74.137
Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 09:38 pm:   
You're in august company, Weber. :-)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/7903885/Keith-Chegwin-accused-of-s tealing-Twitter-jokes-from-comedians.html
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 78.152.209.53
Posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 - 12:05 am:   
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1296928/Keith-Chegwin-sparks-row-jo ke-ownership-posting-liners-Twitter-page.html
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 78.152.209.53
Posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 - 12:06 am:   
Ha! I just posted the same link, sorry about that. I wasn't stealing your link!

Funny how we repeat jokes relatively freely but if I'd used a nice turn or phrase I'd feel compelled to give credit to its author somehow. Where's the line?
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 109.155.217.108
Posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 - 12:11 am:   
I heard it on TV. I had no idea it was such a famous joke.
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.126.164.88
Posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 - 12:22 am:   
I was reading the one-liner jokes in that article. I had a hard time figuring this one out - "I went into three clinics, it was a real struggle" - but I laughed out loud when I got it... then I gulped, embarrassed, when I realized....

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