i got 2 for you.
1) my dad is walking along the thames, in the middle of american tourist season. anyhow, he sees 2 yankie knobs staring up with a map between them. one says "hmm... i wonder where the tower of london is...?", the other says "well, i guess it must be behind this big old castle..."

(for those of you that don't know, or haven't figured it out, the big old castle is the tower of london...)

2. this isn't so much overheard as heard in confusion. my older brother has a frend called pie-man. apparently when he tells jokes he gets past the first sentence and just shits himself laughing. he does, however, continue vainly to tell the joke, while laughing beer out of his nose.
anyway, one particularly hazy even', he begins to tell a joke, and everyone knows where it's going. they listen anyway, in the hope that they might figure it out. he giggle his way through, and no-one understands. however, when he gets to the end he says quite clearly (the immortal words):

"... so the bishop says to the doctor 'you can't do that with a spoon!'"

everyone promptly shits themself laughing, and pie-man marvels at the fact that he told a successful joke...
(notjustahatrack peeling a sausage..., Thu 10 Jun 2004, 19:19, Reply)