24 October 2019

Badger

My friend Mike told me a story the other night...

A man went into a restaurant for an early evening  meal and spoke to the waiter before placing his order.

The man said, "To start with I'd like soup of the day. What's that?"

The waiter replied, "It's badger, badger soup."

"Okay I'll have that then, " said the man. "And what do you recommend for the main course?"

"I recommend the roasted badger."

The man was a little puzzled. "Okay. How about dessert?"

"We've got badger mousse!"

Still puzzled the man asked, "How come every course is badger?"

The waiter replied, "Oh sorry -  I assumed you wanted the sett menu."

28 comments:

  1. Groan :)

    Somehow I just can't picture badger mousse!

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  2. Having no badgers in this country...this meant absolutely nothing to me until I did some research on badgers and setts!

    One learns something new every day! :)

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    1. Sorry. One shouldn't have to research jokes!

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  3. Boom Boom!
    Just out of curiosity- are badgers a protected species in the UK ?

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    1. Sadly they are not protected Cathy. There is a secret culling campaign in several counties with marksmen employed to shoot them. There is a lot of mythology surrounding badgers and tuberculosis. The badgers were here before human beings and I am very much pro-badger.

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  4. I'd never come across the term "sett" before, so I'm afraid this didn't work for me.
    We have badgers in Germany, too. As far as I know, they are not as numerous as they used to be, but not on the brink of extinction, either.

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    1. Like Lee above, it seems you had to research this joke. Sorry.

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  5. Well, in the very least I'm glad that I'm not the only one this joke was lost on. Thanks for the attempt.

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    1. Clearly I should not apply to be a comedian. I tried but it fell as flat as a squashed badger on a motorway*.

      * = highway, autobahn, autoroute etc.

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  6. That is a really bad joke.

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    1. Boo hoo! Don't be so cruel Sue! I was just trying to bring a little brightness into this gloomy world.

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  7. Well that one fell flat in half the world!

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  8. Oh YP - wherever did you drag that one up from?

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    1. One of South Yorkshire's former coal mines.

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  9. Well, it certainly cheered up a grey corner of London!

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    1. Thank heavens somebody else got it! LOL!

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  11. Never heard of sett either. Had to look it up. Here's what I found:

    A Sett, also known as a block, Belgian block or Sampietrini, is a broadly rectangular quarried stone used in paving roads and walkways. Formerly in widespread use, particularly on steeper streets because setts provided horses' hooves with better grip than a smooth surface, they are now encountered rather as decorative stone paving in landscape architecture.

    and also

    What is the SETT Framework? The SETT Framework is a guideline for gathering data in order to make effective assistive technology decisions.
    SETT - National Association of School Nurses
    What is SETT? SETT is a program written for registered nurses employed in the specialty of school nursing. It has a live or in-person option and an online option.. The purpose of SETT is to provide school nurses with the knowledge, skills and training resources to lead school-based Disaster Response Teams and perform triage in response to mass casualty incident (MCI) events.

    and also

    a badger's den.

    You should move to Wisconsin, which is known as The Badger State.

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    1. Which state has the nickname The Inebriated State? I am guessing Georgia!

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  12. I had to look it up because I didn't get either.

    Here's a joke with a restaurant/pub theme.

    A panda walks into a bar, sits down and orders a sandwich. He eats the sandwich, pulls out a gun and shoots the waiter dead.

    As the panda stands up to go, the bartender shouts, "Hey! Where are you going? You just shot my waiter and you didn't pay for your sandwich!"

    The panda yells back at the bartender, "Hey, I'm a PANDA! Look it up!" The bartender opens his dictionary and sees the following definition for panda:

    "A tree dwelling marsupial of Asian orgin, characterized by distinct black and white coloring. Eats shoots and leaves.

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    1. Ha-ha! That is the title of a well-known book about English grammar.
      "Eats shoots and leaves" (without a comma) means something entirely different from "Eats, shoots and leaves" (with a comma).

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    1. Glad to have brightened your day Graham!

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