Comments on: Metro-racial

By: john b

john b — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:08:00 +0000

I get your point about context: telling jokes about cocks on stage at a corporate function is, erm, risky behaviour for a senior exec at the best of times.

However, Nylund should have been carpeted at the time for being an oaf and either sacked or warned; disciplining him years later when the press find out that the way in which he was an oaf tenuously involved race seems pathetically token.

By: Matthew Turner

Matthew Turner — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 12:55:00 +0000

I don't agree John. Did the executive point out that he was quoting a bad speech from 1962? Did the second one say it was a Richard Pryor joke?

Context is key. In fact the second one seems to me to be inexcusable, and a definite sacking offence, even if he did explain.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:12:00 +0000

See here for an album that takes that as it’s title, in fact.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:10:00 +0000

I think, though I may be wrong, that it was a Richard Pryor joke originally…he definitely had one that ended ‘and it’s deep, too!’

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 08:31:00 +0000

K...just read that joke...

JB: I think that the joke is supposed to be saying that the two men in question had shorter-than average penis sizes:

One said it was too deep (as in, he couldn't reach the bottom of the puddle with the end of his penis)

One one said it was too cold (we all know what happens to penises when they get chilly!)

Then again, I'm probably wrong...am notoriously bad at getting even blatantly obvious jokes, and I can't quite believe that, if my interpretation is correct, people class that joke as "funny" It's spectacularly lame. If anyone laughs when told that joke, they're probably laughing at the person telling it, not the actual joke!