Penguins, by Mark Fuidge

10/7/2016

Directing traffic in the town centre he noticed a car approach with its back seat full of penguins. He signalled to the driver to stop and ordered him to take them to the zoo immediately.

The following day as he directed traffic the same car approached with its back seat still full of penguins. Again he ordered the driver to stop.

"I told you to take them to the zoo yesterday!!"

"I did, we're going to the seaside today"

Gordon Lawrie

10/7/2016 11:05:07 pm

From the editor:

Comments invited from the forum here. This isn't an original joke, it's available at http://unijokes.com/joke-7024/ (perhaps amongst other places). So should we applaud a re-write of someone else's humour, or reject it as someone else's work? Genuinely open to comments.

Amy

15/7/2016 04:40:26 pm

I've actually rewritten one joke, and stolen the punchlines from two, in my FFF odyssey. I think that originality and creativity should be in play. Also, people should acknowledge somehow that the joke is not original (as I did for the punchline I used in "Solutions").

Gordon Lawrie

15/7/2016 07:06:06 pm

Which was the "rewritten joke"?

I wonder if these things are a matter of degree? If it's just the punchline that's used then there's an argument that the story itself might be original. But a simple re-write of an existing story is perhaps stretching things a little...?

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