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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Very droll as we would say back home in the
UK.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Suitable for Christmas
crackers, where jokes are typically droll (with an ironic
intonation), though among these some are smarter than the
average...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Incidentally it's somewhat droll that one derived
origin of 'droll' means 'a fat little man' (<FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN class=rom-inline><SPAN id=hotword><SPAN id=hotword
name="hotword">Middle</SPAN> <SPAN id=hotword name="hotword">Dutch), presumably
rather an amusing one.</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
class=rom-inline><SPAN><SPAN name="hotword">Do any other nations/languages
feature 'bad' jokes as a kind of tradition? The cracker is a fascinating thing,
a bad joke, a naff hat and a crappy plastic toy with a little bang when you pull
it. Where did such irony
originate?</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
class=rom-inline><SPAN><SPAN name="hotword">Nick
Miller</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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