Joke

[This has subtitles for PK]

An Englishman, a Scot and an Irishman were shipwrecked and washed up on a Pacific island. The local tribe, in accordance with their own ethnic traditions which all readers of this joke should fully respect and not find in anyway amusing in a patronising western first-world sort of way, told them that they would be eaten unless they could pass the tribe's two-stage test.

The first stage was to go into the jungle and return with 10 specimens of the same fruit within one hour. Off they went, rejoicing in the broad diversity of world cultures.

After 45 minutes the Englishman was back with 10 apples. He laid them at the feet of the tribesmen and panted "What now?" The tribesmen informed him that the second stage was for them to insert the fruit, one after the other, into his fundamental orifice. If he made a noise of any sort during this process, he would be killed and eaten. They made it clear that this practice was in no way intended to be disrepsectful of members of their own or any other community who were of a different sexual orientation, and on that basis the Englishman bent over. Half way through the second apple, however, he groaned loudly and was slaughtered in as humane a manner as the circumstances permitted.

The canny Scot then emerged with 10 raspberries. The tribesmen congratulated him on his ingenuity and proceeded with the second stage. They slipped up easily, but just as the ninth one was going in the Scot burst out laughing and with great regret the tribe put him to death.

The Englishman and the Scot then met at the Pearly Gates. The Englishman, with the magnificant sense of generosity so characteristic of his nation despite their bloody imperial past, congratulated the Scot and then commiserated with him on his misfortune to have failed so close to the prize. What, he asked, had happened?

"Oh", said the Scot, "Just as they were putting it in I looked round and saw the Irishman staggering out of the jungle with 10 pineapples"

Posted By: Old Git, Dec 11, 17:23:16