From: owner-trailer-park-digest@smoe.org (trailer-park-digest) To: trailer-park-digest@smoe.org Subject: trailer-park-digest V3 #121 Reply-To: trailer-park Sender: owner-trailer-park-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-trailer-park-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk trailer-park-digest Monday, November 25 2002 Volume 03 : Number 121 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 08:54:34 +0000 From: "Karl Roche" Subject: Lobster Joke Punchline? I imagine she was also doing an action with her hand.. like someone talking? Which also looks like a lobster claw. If your american than I expect it passed you by.. its something someone in London might say when somebody is being lippy (being rude) to them. Regards, Karl Roche - -------- ------- ------ ------ ----- ---- --- -- IBM Global Services - -- --- ---- ----- ------ ------ ------- --------- Add your customer reference now at: http://w3.ncs.ibm.com/materials Play to win http://www.ibm.com/services/uk/ - ----- Forwarded by Karl Roche/UK/IBM on 25-11-02 08:52 ----- "Robert Glenn Plotner" To: "Beth Orton List" Subject: Lobster Joke Punchline? Sent by: owner-trailer-par k@smoe.org 23-11-02 03:53 Please respond to "Robert Glenn Plotner" The subject of Beth's lobster joke came up on The Archival Group. She's told this joke several times in concert, and I'll be damned if I can understand what she's saying at the punchline. Still, other people laugh mirthfully at this conundrum, and it only vexes me so! Oh, vexed Beth fan that I am, have pity on me, and if thou hast ears to divine the punchline, speak I say and out with it! The joke goes something like this... A lobster walks into a bar. The lobster asks the barman for a pint of lager. The barman promptly throws the lobster out. The geezer standing next to the lobster says 'What'd you do that for?'. And the barman says....???? It sounds something like "He was giving me all that." If so, what does that mean and why is it funny? In a related note, the first time I heard "Sweetest Decline" I swear I misunderstood the lyric "it's like catching snow on my tongue" to be "it's like, can't you smell my tongue?" I had no idea why her tongue should smell, but I greatly respected her for breaking new lyrical ground. Are there any other misunderstood Beth lyrics out there? Best regards, Robert The Archival Group http://plotner.home.mindspring.com/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/archivalgroup/ ------------------------------ End of trailer-park-digest V3 #121 **********************************