The Forum Jokes Thread

[jcredfer]

8 hours ago, KeithMacdonald said:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla

 

From which derivation (via Netscape, may it rest in peace), Mozilla and the browser some of you may be using.

 

Thank you, I had heard of the films but never got round to see one. 

{I may be more lucky than I had previously thought... 🤫 }

 

[Steamport Southport]

5 hours ago, jcredfer said:

 

Thank you, I had heard of the films but never got round to see one. 

{I may be more lucky than I had previously thought... 🤫 }

 

 

Just avoid the American version a few years back.

 

The original Japanese films are fun films where you can easily waste a couple of hours, the remake is just special effects with next to no storyline.

 

Many of us grew up with the cartoons so they do have a cultural significance. ISTR it was shown on Swap Shop (or Tiswas) along with Jana Of The Jungle.

[NIK]

Hi,

 

I think during a round of Sound Charades on BBC Radio's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue one team had to do a spoken word sketch to hint at the word Godzilla and did:

 

'And how is the supreme deity at the moment?.' - 'I don't like to say this but he wasn't very well yesterday and he's even worse today'.

 

Regards

 

Nick

[Compound2632]

15 minutes ago, NIK said:

BBC Radio's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue

 

One round that sticks in my mind was "Name that Motorway" - from recordings of traffic noise.

 

And the time the show came from a theatre in Bury St Edmunds. Humph said, the panellists were only there because they thought they'd been invited to bury Noel Edmonds.

Edited November 11, 2023 by Compound2632

[proton]

Just bought a lightweight electric snow blower for our cottage, and saw this terrifying warning sign on it!!

[Colin_McLeod]

[Ian J.]

22 hours ago, Steamport Southport said:

 

Just avoid the American version a few years back.

 

The original Japanese films are fun films where you can easily waste a couple of hours, the remake is just special effects with next to no storyline.

 

Many of us grew up with the cartoons so they do have a cultural significance. ISTR it was shown on Swap Shop (or Tiswas) along with Jana Of The Jungle.

 

Now, you see, I actually like and far prefer the 1998 version. It had Jean Reno in it, took very valid pot shots at Americans who thought themselves superior, and had a more realistic Godzilla in that it didn't look like a man in a suit. Yes, it's a guilty pleasure, but I do enjoy it.

[Compound2632]

45 minutes ago, Ian J. said:

Now, you see, I actually like and far prefer the 1998 version. It had Jean Reno in it, took very valid pot shots at Americans who thought themselves superior, and had a more realistic Godzilla in that it didn't look like a man in a suit. Yes, it's a guilty pleasure, but I do enjoy it.

 

Reading about the links between the original Japanese films and US nuclear testing in the Pacific, I now see that film in a new light, with its shift of the blame onto French nuclear testing - more palatable to a US audience. 

[Porkscratching]

For Sale.. 

 

Muhammad Ali DVDs... George Foreman Grill.. 

 

Both Boxed

[NIK]

The new affirmation process for UK public inquiries:

 

'I promise to swear to the best of my ability, so **** me God'

[Obi-Jiff Kenobi]

2 hours ago, Porkscratching said:

George Foreman Grill.. 

I once saw one advertised for sale in a local paper, described as a “lean, mean, rat-reducing grilling machine.”

[The Johnster]

Ex-wife's nan called them George Formby grills 'turned out nice again', but she lived in a three-storey bungalow (dormer and a cellar) and had her ceilings semtexed (a novel way of knocking two rooms into one).  She once pointed out a Durex dog, and explained that the orange peel she'd just thrown into a hedge was self-detonating (back to the Semtex, she meant bio-degradabe).  'Nana Semtex' was always good for a laugh!

[Colin_McLeod]

[aardvark]

I used to be a doctor, but I lost my patients.

 

[steve1]

steve 

 

 

[Hroth]

1 hour ago, steve1 said:

steve 

 

 

 

The fire extinguisher is a nice touch, a pity its just out of her reach....

 

[Steamport Southport]

[Chris116]

How do penguins get around?

 

 

On a B-icicle.

 

[Thorness]

[33C]

Someone stole my Joss sticks! I'm not incensed!

Edited November 13, 2023 by 33C
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[jbqfc]

[Hroth]

4 minutes ago, jbqfc said:

 

Going by their expressions, the King has just awarded them Nul Points...

 

[Steamport Southport]

Oops!

 

 

I believe that is supposed to be Alexander The Great.....

[Compound2632]

1 hour ago, Steamport Southport said:

I believe that is supposed to be Alexander The Great.....

 

Certainly not the Bayeux tapestry! 

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