[Skipton]

Itemized!​

'I was in Woolworth's, and I saw this man
and woman wrapped in a barcode.
I said, "Are you two an item?" '

 

[Jarred Santos]

Itemized!​

'I was in Woolworth's, and I saw this man
and woman wrapped in a barcode.
I said, "Are you two an item?" '

'We, kind sir, are a buy one, take one deal!'

 

[MotherGoose]

Great joke (but bar codes are an American invention so your joke won't be appreciated by all members of SDC)

 

[LGAM]

Great joke (but bar codes are an American invention so your joke won't be appreciated by all members of SDC)

Odd statement you've made. What's it got to do with which country invented the barcodes please?

 

[MotherGoose]

Odd statement you've made. What's it got to do with which country invented the barcodes please?

It may seem an odd statement to people who don't regularly frequent the joke posts but my comment will make perfect sense to the "regulars". It refers to the fact that there's one member of SDC who spits the dummy every time a joke references anything American. He pretends not to understand the joke and queries the wording. He repeatedly insists that jokes must be "Australianised", e.g. words like ass and bathroom MUST be replaced with suitable Australian equivalents, even if the substitution ruins the joke.

 

[Chook03]

Itemized!​

'I was in Woolworth's, and I saw this man
and woman wrapped in a barcode.
I said, "Are you two an item?" '

Love it!!!

 

[APapaz]

Great joke (but bar codes are an American invention so your joke won't be appreciated by all members of SDC)

Wonder who that would be MotherGoose!?

 

[MHM]

Great joke (but bar codes are an American invention so your joke won't be appreciated by all members of SDC)

Why not? Barcodes are now as ubiquitous in Australia as anywhere else. If your implication was accepted, then virtually nothing would be referable.

 

[MHM]

It may seem an odd statement to people who don't regularly frequent the joke posts but my comment will make perfect sense to the "regulars". It refers to the fact that there's one member of SDC who spits the dummy every time a joke references anything American. He pretends not to understand the joke and queries the wording. He repeatedly insists that jokes must be "Australianised", e.g. words like ass and bathroom MUST be replaced with suitable Australian equivalents, even if the substitution ruins the joke.

...and he is quite right in doing so!

 

[MotherGoose]

Why not? Barcodes are now as ubiquitous in Australia as anywhere else. If your implication was accepted, then virtually nothing would be referable.

Yes, and isn't that the point - the absurdity of people objecting to the jokes because they use "American" words or reference American themes, objects, restaurants, and inventions etc when these things are universally known. People who rail against the use of so-called American terminology demonstrate their ignorance because they don't know the etymology, i.e. the origin and history behind the words. Most of those "American" words were originally old English words which had fallen into disuse and were resurrected by Noah Webster. For example, the word "ass" (NOT arse), to refer to the buttocks, can be traced back to Shakespeare in "A Midsummer Night's Dream". So the recent dummy-spit about the use of the word asphalt to imply "ass-fault", and the insistence that donkey should be used instead of ass (on the grounds that ass is American) was quite ludicrous. Asphalt and ass are both words of English, not American, origin.

 

[mylittletibbies]

Odd statement you've made. What's it got to do with which country invented the barcodes please?

We have a member who likes his jokes to be Aussie specific (good morning Dougal).
Someone just having a little dig.

 

[Vet543]

We have a member who likes his jokes to be Aussie specific (good morning Dougal).
Someone just having a little dig.

Please DONT use the name "Dougal" that is Gaelic Scottish origin... Please change it to Dougie (Pronounced - Duggy) or even Bluey.. That is much more Aussie. LMAO