Sunday, June 21, 2009

Inconceivable!

PTR
I like your dog, is it a schnauzer?

Scottish Wife
No, it's an Airedale.

Deaf Scottish Husband
What did he think it was?

Scottish Wife
A schnauzer.

Deaf Scottish Husband
A schnauzer? But that's a German dog!

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

This gets my vote for the Man Booker prize for blogging.

Great, sparse story!

The weird thing is I can really picture an old deaf Scottish chap, who has bristly white whiskers like an Airedale/Schnauzer cross!

PTR said...

What?? How could you get an Airedale to breed with a Schnauzer? That's a German dog!

I'm glad someone out there liked this story. It really astounded me when it happened, but then after I wrote the blog entry I had a lengthy conversation with my Smaller Half and she couldn't really see why I was so captivated by it.

Anonymous said...

Ignore your Smaller Half - she's being a esum.

Esum is a fairly rare phenomenon, only really seen since the onset of high-energy nuclear research.

Should your Smaller Half come into contact with your muse, massive amounts of energy would be spontaneously liberated and much of South Australia would be obliterated (would anyone notice?).

Be careful!

Anonymous said...

It's especially important that your Smaller Half not do any Queen Victoria impersonations - "One is not a-muse-d..." = BANG!

Anonymous said...

...But Victoria was a German Queen!

PTR said...

Ignore my Smaller Half? What foolish advice is this? Sounds like you're trying to turn this story from comedy into tragedy.