My Uncle
My uncle used to do a lot of bush work around the world, and especially in Africa. Tree felling, saw-milling, track cutting and that sort of stuff. There wasn’t much of him to look at – below average height and slim build, he probably wouldn’t weigh 65 kilo ringing wet. But given his years of serious manual work he was unbelievably wiry and had the endurance of a marathon runner.

Back many years when times were a bit harder he was looking for work in Canada and got a tip that they were after lumberjacks in a certain forest area. So he rocks up at this camp and speaks to the head guy. The head guy was really rude and treated him with contempt as he just didn’t think my uncle was up to the task. The head guy, and pretty much everyone else in the camp, was at least a foot taller than him and far more muscular. Evidently these guys were used to hard work and thought my uncle was too weak to keep up. But my uncle was insistent that they give him a try and after much nagging they decided to provide a test. They took him into the forest, gave him an axe, pointed him toward an absolutely massive redwood and gave him instructions to fell it as quickly as possible. Then they left him to it. Now I don't know much about trees but I am reliably informed that redwood's can be seriously big buggers and normally there is no way one man would be expected to fell one alone.

A couple of hours later my uncle gets back to the camp, puffing a bit but declaring he was finished. The other lumberjacks couldn’t believe it so they all traipsed off into the forest to see what has been going on. When they get to the spot they were all amazed at what they saw – not only had the mighty tree been dropped, my uncle had also spit it into planks and neatly stacked them all. The boss just couldn’t believe it and he asked uncle ‘How did you learn how to cut wood like that? Where were you working before coming to Canada?’ My uncle replied ‘Well, I did a few years in the Sahara forest.’ The boss said ‘Don’t you mean the Sahara desert?’ Uncle replied ‘That’s what they call it now.’






gullible is believing anything I post on here

( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Sun 24 Aug 2008, 3:43, 4 replies)

Shouldn't the punchline be
"that's what they call it now"

or am I just hopelessly confused...?
(dxg, Sun 24 Aug 2008, 11:54, closed)

er
Thanks. Fixed.
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Sun 24 Aug 2008, 12:11, closed)

what
did it say before?
(Stu Moo winner of five nobble piece prizes, Sun 24 Aug 2008, 22:13, closed)

I stuffed up and had 'Thats what they used to call it'
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Mon 25 Aug 2008, 8:33, closed)