Joke

Are you Cuffy in disguise?

A couple go for a meal at a Chinese restaurant and order the "Chicken Surprise". The waiter brings the meal, served in a lidded cast iron pot.

Just as the wife is about to serve herself, the lid of the pot rises
slightly with two beady little eyes looking around before the lid slams back
down.

"Good grief, did you see that?" she asks her husband.

He has not, so she asks him to look in the pot. He reaches for it and again
the lid rises, and he sees two little eyes looking around before it slams
down.

Rather perturbed, he calls the waiter over, explains what is happening and
demands an explanation.

"Please sir," says the waiter, "what you order?"

The husband replies, "Chicken Surprise."

The Waiter replies..............

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"Ah... So sorry .............. I bring you the Peking Duck".

William, when it was agreed it would be a 'top' idea to colonise recently discovered 'Columbia', a joke was selected to be transported with the Pilgrim Fathers.....

Originally Posted by Dr Rich

William, when it was agreed it would be a 'top' idea to colonise recently discovered 'Colombia', a joke was selected to be transported with the Pilgrim Fathers.....

They knew about chinese restaurants back then?!

Originally Posted by Filipe M.

They knew about chinese restaurants back then?!

Of course.

A land route to China had been discovered well before the discovery of the americas (with a small 'a' ). Delicacies had spread west. For example Sweet and Sour Fried Chicken actually left China just as Sour Fried Chicken. The 'Sweet' was added en route (as us intellectuals say) as the recipe found it's way back to Plymouth via somewhere in central Iran, where they decided Sour Fried Chicken was (and indulge me in a quote) 'ishalamah, ishalam bahati 'mingin''

Edit...in the above post I have edited my spelling of Columbia. I was clearly thinking about something else in my original post..

Originally Posted by Dr Rich

*divagation about pre-Vasco da Gama's prowess*

Edit...in the above post I have edited my spelling of Columbia. I was clearly thinking about something else in my original post..

You clearly need to stop smoking...

Don't get me going on Vasco de Gama

Originally Posted by Dr Rich

Don't get me going on Vasco de Gama

ok, I won't, but why?

Bloody Vasco da Gama!. Con merchant

What he had in mind was to use old Manuel's cash, and clear off to his holiday home in Mozambique* If he hadnt upset a handful of locals he'd have stayed there and that would have been that. Bing, bish, bosh. Manuel's cash all spent on apricots and unbusty wenches** But due to the upset over an unpaid bill he was forced to leave, sailed off right indstead of left. Despite the shouts of his men 'This seems an awful long way...' he took no heed, arrived in Goa. BIG MISTAKE. Wandered about a bit, realised it didnt look much like Lisbon (BEARING IN MIND he had been away a few years, things change). Realised where he was and declared he had reached China. He wa later politely informed it was only India.

No India's so big even a fool could find it.

*dont EVEN get me started on Mozambique...

**a well known fact. FACT.

Originally Posted by Dr Rich

*some jibberish about portuguese people all being cons, preparing the way for more jibberish about Pedro Alvarez Cabral*

*dont EVEN get me started on Mozambique...

ok, we won't, but why?