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- From: sml@mfltd.co.uk ()
- Subject: bizarre gardening accident
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.133726.25167@mfltd.co.uk>
- Keywords: Electric spade
- Sender: sml@mfltd.co.uk (Shaun Lowry (x5282))
- Organization: Micro Focus Ltd., Newbury, UK
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:37:26 GMT
- Lines: 61
-
- Recounted and somewhat ad-libbed from this morning's Danny Baker
- show on BBC Radio 5:-
-
- A financial advisor had a friend whose son worked on an oil rig,
- and while he was on shore leave (or whatever they call it) he
- invited him and his son round for a few drinks before he went back.
- Now this guy had an allotment that was somewhat in disarray, because
- he'd been off working on the oil rig, and his son had only recently
- returned from a trip to the States, so the day before they were
- due to go for this drink, they arranged to go and sort it out.
-
- Come the day of the aforementioned get-together, father and son
- turn up as expected, but the son has his arm in plaster all the
- way up. "How did this happen?" asks the financial advisor.
- "You tell him, dad," says the son.
- "No, no," says the father "it's your arm, *you* tell him."
-
- It transpires that the two had gone to re-arrange the allotment
- as planned, but as conditions were a little damp (read "sodden"),
- they'd both put on very large wellington boots. Somewhere along
- the way, the son had got a pretty sharp stone into his boot, so he
- tries to put his hand down the back of the boot to get at it. Only
- he can't reach it. By this time, the boot was covered in slimy
- mud, as was the ground, so the guy decides that rather than try to
- take the boot off, he'll try to shake it to the heel of the boot,
- and then lift his leg and roll the stone out.
-
- Now this allotment is on the edge of a larg field, and in the
- field next to it is an electricity pylon, whose leg conveniently
- comes down in the corner of the allotment. An ideal place to lean
- and perform the sort of manoeuvre one would have thought. Picture
- this:
-
-
- \
- ==================
- ELECTRICAL \
- PYLON LEG --> \ O
- \ _____/ <-- SON SHAKING LEG VIGOROUSLY
- \ \
- \ \..../ WET MUDDY GROUND
- \ /: |
- \/ :_ V
- =============================================================================
-
-
- So what's the dutiful father do? He assumes his son is being
- electrocuted, and hits his arm as hard as he can with a shovel!
-
-
- [ ... many assumed expletives ... ]
-
-
- Shaun.
-
- Hey, I got the gist of it, OK???
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