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# :D
“It's strange, isn't it. You stand in the middle of a library and shout 'AAAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!' and everyone just stares at you. But you do the same thing on an aeroplane, and everyone joins in.”
(I helped save b3ta! Fresh Water Mole loves his baby boy more and more every day, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 16:45, archived)
# Brilliant...
:D
(I helped save b3ta! J Peasemould Gruntfuttock Alpha Mike Foxtrot, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 16:47, archived)
# Apparently, 1 in 5 people in the world are Chinese. And there are 5 people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother Colin. Or my younger brother Ho-Cha-Chu. But I think it's Colin.
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Wed 24 Mar 2010, 16:58, archived)
# Yay for Tim Vine jokes
So I got a compliment on my driving the other day...someone left a note under the windscreen wiper, it said "Parking fine".
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 17:02, archived)
# haha
although that one is definitely Cooper's - I remember seeing him do it on TV, although lots of apparent Cooper gags are in fact Tim Vine's.
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Wed 24 Mar 2010, 17:04, archived)
# If you google tommy cooper gags
some of the jokes that appear in lists reference things that didn't exist when he died, for example Eurostar.

I'm 95% sure that the Chinese one is Cooper's.
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 17:14, archived)
# I have a DVD of Vine performing it, if that helps
Credited to Vine here too:
www.guy-sports.com/humor/comedians/comedian_tommy_cooper.htm#Tim_Vine
www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/tim-vine-down-the-barrel-of-a-pun-527562.html
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 17:22, archived)
# he may well have done
but it's been a favourite joke of mine for about 20 years or more

edit: also - I've just seen the video of his death on stage for the first time ever on youtube. *sads*
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Wed 24 Mar 2010, 17:25, archived)
# an indirect reference to Cooper having said the joke...
www.bbc.co.uk/wales/southeast/halloffame/showbiz/tommy_cooper.shtml


(I feel like a detective!)
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Wed 24 Mar 2010, 17:34, archived)
# I've just watched a selection of Cooper clips on youtube but no joy
I now give up and am off to the pub
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 17:43, archived)
# haha
I watched a few too

WE SHALL HAVE TO LEAVE IT AS A MYSTERY FOR NOW!
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Wed 24 Mar 2010, 17:45, archived)
# I did not know about Tim Vine/Tommy Cooper. Interesting.
(I helped save b3ta! Fresh Water Mole loves his baby boy more and more every day, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 17:06, archived)
# Proper LOL!!
You tinker you
:D
(I helped save b3ta! Ninj, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 17:02, archived)
# haha
A LEGEND!
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Wed 24 Mar 2010, 17:04, archived)