Re: yipeee!

Which reminds me

An American tourist (but could be Canadian) walks into a small pub in small village in England and sits at the bar. While he's nursing his pint, he's watching the other local patrons, and notices that every now and then one of them yells out a number - at which stage, everybody else in the pub bursts into laughter and slaps him/her on the back.

After while, he asks the landlord what is going on.

'Well', says the landlord, "this lot have been drinking here together for so long, that we all now know each others jokes. So to save time, we gave them all a number. Then if somebody thinks of a joke, they just yell out the number, everybody remembers the joke, and we have a good laugh"

"Great" says the American, "can I give it a try ?"

"Sure" says the landlord.

So the American approaches the patrons, and nervously waits for a lull in the conversation. When he senses he has the rooms attention, he yells   "Thirteen".

Everybody just ignores him and goes back to their conversation.

Crestfallen, the American goes back to the landlord. "What happened ?" says the American

"It's the way that you tell them", says the landlord.

Blair Adamache wrote:
> a frayed knot = afraid not
>
> old joke:
>
> "There were 3 strings and they wanted to go to a restaraunt for supper.
> The first string went in and the waiter looked at him and said "Are you
> a string?" and the string said "yes" so the waiter said "I'm sorry. We
> don't serve strings." The second string came in and the waiter looked at
> him and said "Are you a string?" and the string said "yes" so the waiter
> said "I'm sorry. We don't serve strings." Then the third string tied
> himself in a knot and frayed the ends. He walked into the restaraunt and
> the waiter looked him up and down and said "Are you a string?" and the
> string said "No I'm a frayed knot (afaid not)."
>
> Anton Versteeg wrote:
>

>> You are a frayed what? :)
>>
>> Mark Townsend wrote:
>>
>>> Serge Rielau wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well, AFAIK amazon.com is running Teradata in their warehouse.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm a frayed knot - see 
>>> http://otn.oracle.com/products/bi/db/10g/pdf/bwp_bi_dw_field_exp_10ir1.pdf 
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>