
i remember chris tarrant reading that out on capital radio like 20 years ago*
*may be slight exaggeration, maybe more like 15.
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*may be slight exaggeration, maybe more like 15.

but there were characters called hans and gervais in the joke
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A restaurant owner had a customer who wanted the last green squid from the live tank but the cook Gervais had a soft spot for it as it had a moustache and reminded him of himself so he wouldn't kill it, so the owner asked the bloke who washes the dishes to do it instead, but eventually he'd had to go explain to the customer that:
Hans that does dishes is as soft as Gervais, with my green hairy lipped squid.
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Hans that does dishes is as soft as Gervais, with my green hairy lipped squid.