The intelligent fellow...!
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752 people were standing at a railway station. Next day it came out in the newspaper that 751 people died there at the station. So the reporters gathered to question this man alive.
Reporters: "Can you tell us exactly what had happened?"
The man: "Oh yes! It was announced that - A through train will be passing from platform no. 3. So, all the people got down on the railway tracks sparing the platform and so, the train ran over them."
Reporters: "Then, how could you escape the accident??"
The man: "I was a bit intelligent. I tried to commit suicide and lay on the platform..!"
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Sorry, what? So the people who wanted to live died, and the poor person who wanted to die survived. What is funny about that? The survivor must feel very guilty. I hope he didn't get depressed and try and do something stupid.
Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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Sorry, what? So the people who wanted to live died, and the poor person who wanted to die survived. What is funny about that? The survivor must feel very guilty. I hope he didn't get depressed and try and do something stupid.
Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^]:laugh: It would appear we still need a :sarcicon:
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Okay! May be it is getting to difficult for you to relate this with your surrounding environment. So, you don't quite get it.
You are quite right, I am the one not getting this. I bid you good day.
Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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Actually it is a joke. So I selected Joke from Message Type while posting it. The people on the platform were stupid enough to think that the train was actually going run up on the platform. So, they got down on the rails. The man alive was trying to commit suicide. So, hopped on to the platform from the rails. :-D
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You are quite right, I am the one not getting this. I bid you good day.
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PHS241 wrote:
You will be pardoning me sir
Firstly, please don't refer to me as sir because I am quite junior to you(I am only 16).
PHS241 wrote:
it would not, could not, happen in Englanding because trains are not too punctual
In India the anouncement for a train's arrival is made only 2 min before the incoming train. Further, I really do expect people to treat this as a joke. So, let it not be scientifically reasoned. :)
Ritwesh wrote:
So, let it not be scientifically reasoned.
You don't know the Lounge very well, do you...? :laugh:
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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752 people were standing at a railway station. Next day it came out in the newspaper that 751 people died there at the station. So the reporters gathered to question this man alive.
Reporters: "Can you tell us exactly what had happened?"
The man: "Oh yes! It was announced that - A through train will be passing from platform no. 3. So, all the people got down on the railway tracks sparing the platform and so, the train ran over them."
Reporters: "Then, how could you escape the accident??"
The man: "I was a bit intelligent. I tried to commit suicide and lay on the platform..!"
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That's more like it.:thumbsup:
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752 people were standing at a railway station. Next day it came out in the newspaper that 751 people died there at the station. So the reporters gathered to question this man alive.
Reporters: "Can you tell us exactly what had happened?"
The man: "Oh yes! It was announced that - A through train will be passing from platform no. 3. So, all the people got down on the railway tracks sparing the platform and so, the train ran over them."
Reporters: "Then, how could you escape the accident??"
The man: "I was a bit intelligent. I tried to commit suicide and lay on the platform..!"
Did the train driver have poor eyesight? Did he not see all those people in front of him? Surely some of them would have survived even only because the accumulated bone matter of a couple of hundred people would have slowed the train or possibly derailed it - perhaps even causing it to fall over to the platform area killing the potential suicide?
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752 people were standing at a railway station. Next day it came out in the newspaper that 751 people died there at the station. So the reporters gathered to question this man alive.
Reporters: "Can you tell us exactly what had happened?"
The man: "Oh yes! It was announced that - A through train will be passing from platform no. 3. So, all the people got down on the railway tracks sparing the platform and so, the train ran over them."
Reporters: "Then, how could you escape the accident??"
The man: "I was a bit intelligent. I tried to commit suicide and lay on the platform..!"
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752 people were standing at a railway station. Next day it came out in the newspaper that 751 people died there at the station. So the reporters gathered to question this man alive.
Reporters: "Can you tell us exactly what had happened?"
The man: "Oh yes! It was announced that - A through train will be passing from platform no. 3. So, all the people got down on the railway tracks sparing the platform and so, the train ran over them."
Reporters: "Then, how could you escape the accident??"
The man: "I was a bit intelligent. I tried to commit suicide and lay on the platform..!"
They way everyone has responded to a new joke is the reason all you normally get is reposted jokes from your own forums (and the occasional kid who thinks that female body parts are punchlines.)
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That's more like it.:thumbsup:
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They way everyone has responded to a new joke is the reason all you normally get is reposted jokes from your own forums (and the occasional kid who thinks that female body parts are punchlines.)
To be fair,it's most likely that A) It was not very well translated or b) The joke was a bit lost in the translation also, you mean b00bs is not a punchline? I've been living a lie!
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To be fair,it's most likely that A) It was not very well translated or b) The joke was a bit lost in the translation also, you mean b00bs is not a punchline? I've been living a lie!
It wasn't the joke that failed but the way you tell 'em. This is the last place on the planet you want to fail. :-D
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- I asked you to explain it before you had answered Keith 1) I read it and still don't understand 2) I'm going to guess that you either made this "joke" up yourself or translated it badly? To summarise: most people got onto the tracks. They didn't want to die, so what they did was stupid. One person didn't get onto the tracks. He did want to die, so stayed on the platform, assuming that the train wouldn't go there. Given that he made the exact same mistake as the others (albeit with a different outcome), how is he more intelligent than they are? Could you maybe explain?
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It wasn't the joke that failed but the way you tell 'em. This is the last place on the planet you want to fail. :-D
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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last place on the planet you want to fail
I don't know about that. I can think of a few others that might be worse. Tightrope walking across an active volcano might be a place I'd want to fail less than here*. (* - Yes, I understand that tightrope walking obscures the place-ness, but no more than the here-ness of the internet ;P )
