Joke on Liverpudlian speechways

[Wilson Gray]

Well, the second bloke is correct, you know, though I'd use the
spelling, "whuddle," for BE. ;-)

-Wilson

On 10/25/06, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> I found this elsewhere.
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>   It's a riot.
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>   The following joke was recounted recently on Greater Manchester Radio (GMR)
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> Two Liverpudlian young offenders are sharing a cell in Borstal. One is laboriously writing a letter. He looks up and says "Ay ! Ay ! How do you spell 'Daryl' ?"
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> 'What you wanna know for ?" says his cell mate. "We don't know any c*** in 'ere called Daryl."
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> The first one says, "'Cause I want me mam to send us a pair of jeans Daryl fit me."
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> "You daft wassock!", says the second. "It's not, 'Daryl' fit me. It's 'Worral'."
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>   Ah, those Brits. What they do with our language !
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>   JL
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