Yesterday Laurence told me some Irish jokes via skype. I HAVE TO SHARE THEM!!

No1:

West Belfast: A gunman leaps on top of another man, puts a gun to his head and asks, “are you a Protestant or a Catholic”?…

The man doesn’t know what to say, so he says “I’m a Jew”

The gunman says, “Are you a Catholic Jew or a Protestant Jew?”…

The man says “Neither, I’m just a Jew!”

The gunman says, “Great, I’m the luckiest Arab in Belfast tonight!”

No2:

The Pope is visiting Ireland, and when he lands in Dublin, he is met by a chauffeur but he decides that he wants to drive, so he tells the driver, “Ireland is a safe country, so I want to drive.”

So they both get in the car and the Pope starts to drive at 150km/h.

They get pulled over by the police and the policeman radios into the police station. He tells the sergeant that he’s stopped someone for speeding but he doesn’t know whether to arrest him.

“Why?”, asks the sergeant.

“Well”, says the officer, “I think it might be God.”

“Why do you think that?”, asks the sergeant.

“Because he’s being driven by the Pope”, says the officer.

No3:

Mary O’Reilly goes to the priest after mass.

“Father”, she says, “I have terrible news…my husband has died.”

“I’m so sorry”, says the priest, “when did it happen?”

“last night”, Mary says.

“and what were his final words to ye?”

“well, Father…”, she says, “his final words were ‘Mary, will ye put that gun down?’”

Many thanks to Laurence for telling me those and to his parents for bringing him a book with Irish jokes from their Ireland holiday.

May I express one further thing: Erik, Katie, Niklas: why not update your blog – sometimes?

Cheerio!