>>>>Well there were a load of Essex Girls jokes. They're supposed to all be dumb bimbos. So:
>>>>
>>>>Q. What's the difference between (WTDB) an Essex girl and a supermarket trolley?
>>>>A. A supermarket trolley has a mind of its own.
>>>>
>>>>Many of them are very rude, though ...
>>>>
>>>>There used to be an old crone on TV, way back, practically the first British TV chef. She was a horrible person, called Fanny Craddock.
>>>>
>>>>Q. WTDB Fanny Craddock and cross-country running?
>>>>A. One's a pant in the country ...
>>>
>>>These are the hardest to get for non-native speaker. I didn't get the last one.
>>
>>The second line of the answer is for you to fill in - you make a spoonerism (transpostion of the vowel and/or consenants) of the description. As Fanny was a cook, it ends "... in the pantry" - work it out :-)
>>>
>>>I once posted pun jokes from my manager Pun jokes - without dictionary I understood none :( Thread #517171 Message #517171 and I remember I got none of those then. I'm going to re-read them to see, if I can understand better now...
>
>Oh, I see! I worked it out <g> Count in a pantry, nice...

Either your deadpan humour is excellent or you didn't quite get it.

Nick