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Pastimes : Laughter is the Best Medicine - Tell us a joke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: howard a steady who wrote (8088)	12/14/1998 12:27:00 PM
From: Laurens	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 62549

Long ago,when the British ruled the wurrld, the Bombay Bicycle Club in India was a very posh gathering of officers and gentlemen. Every year the select committee of the BBC would meet and consider approving applications from candidate members. Only he who would produce the most hilarious and original joke would have a chance of being accepted. A young luitenant by the name of Grayson was extremely keen on becoming a member, and went in front of the Bombay Bicycle Committee to relate a, what he after lots of research,thought to be a unique joke. Every year the comittee stopped him short after a few sentences and told him they already knew the outcome,and proved it by telling Grayson. After several years, the officer (by now a captain) went on a cruise to Egypt, and happened to be present when archeologists discovered the entrance of a pyramid. He heard one of the diggers laughg out loudly,and asked him what was so funny. The man pointed to a mural ,and said "This is the funniest joke I have ever read" he explained. The captain immediately begged him to translate the joke for him, and was convinced that this time he finally would become a member of that desirable Bombay Bicycle Club. Filled with confidence he came forward at the next annual meeting and told them the ancient Egyptian story. To his grief, the chairman stopped him short again, and told him again it was not an original joke. Captain Grayson was stunned. And tried even harder year after year to find the right joke. But whatever joke he laid his hands on, he was always told it was not an original story to the Bombay Bicycle Club committee. One night,the captain now was a four- star general, the man was resting in his tent during army manoeuvers. A great storm broke loose. The general's aide woke up from the thunder and lightning.Suddenly,he saw that the tent was struck.He ran over but found the general mortally wounded. While the aide was trying to telephone the hospital , he heard a loud voice saying: "Turn me over. Please turn me over" The aide was thoroughly shaken by his master's voice, and asked him: "Sir,you want me to turn you over?Why?" The general replied: "So the Bombay Bicycle Club can kiss my bloody arse....." ========================== (I heard this story in India in l969,so I trust it is an original to this forum!!)