The Curate's Egg

[ttfn]

I had a meeting today with my boss. Our last communication had been by email early last month, when, in response to her enquiry about my health I replied it was like the curate's egg. When I met her today she asked me 'what is the curate's egg? is it scrambled?'
I am pleased to report that I responded with true humility, even to the Punch line ;o)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curate's_egg

[mike11111]

When I was at school my O Level History text book was riddled with Punch cartoons which I never seemed to grasp till I went to University. One of my favourites, when teaching social conditions in the 19C, was that of the little girl in the grocer's who asked for half a pound of margarine (then a new discovery), concluding with the words,
" And Mam says, 'Can you put the cow on it, 'cos she's got company for tea"
It took me ages to explain that one to the kids.

[mike11111]

Another of my favourites, from a much later edition of Punch (Sqad will like this one) is of two Roman soldiers sitting on a bench under a sing reading, "MEDICUS".
1st soldier: " What are you here for?"
2nd soldier: "Picked up a dose of 495 in Gaul" .

[mike11111]

Sign, not sing.