JolietJake
12-02-2006, 06:44 PM
(Apologies for the thread title: It was a little more Pink Floyd than I was going for but, oh well)
Anyway
I'd like to dedicate this thread to those funny, if not useful, bits of knowledge gleaned while otherwise wasting ones time.
Here's one that made me actually do a spit-take (had it been filmed):
Jack Paar, the host of The Tonight Show prior to Johnny Carson, famously walked off the set on-air on February 11, 1960. His upset was caused by a network censor who cut a toilet-joke, or more specifically, a joke about a "W.C." Here's the joke:
An English lady while visiting Switzerland asks about the location of the "W.C." The Swiss misunderstood her as talking about the Wayside Chapel, and left her a note that said (in part) "the W.C. is situated nine miles from the room that you will occupy... It is capable of holding about 229 people and it is only open on Sunday and Thursday... It may interest you to know that my daughter was married in the W.C. and it was there that she met her husband... I shall be delighted to reserve the best seat for you, if you wish, where you will be seen by everyone."
Paar was so angered by the cutting of the joke that he walked off mid-show, although he did return a month later.
Anyway
I'd like to dedicate this thread to those funny, if not useful, bits of knowledge gleaned while otherwise wasting ones time.
Here's one that made me actually do a spit-take (had it been filmed):
Jack Paar, the host of The Tonight Show prior to Johnny Carson, famously walked off the set on-air on February 11, 1960. His upset was caused by a network censor who cut a toilet-joke, or more specifically, a joke about a "W.C." Here's the joke:
An English lady while visiting Switzerland asks about the location of the "W.C." The Swiss misunderstood her as talking about the Wayside Chapel, and left her a note that said (in part) "the W.C. is situated nine miles from the room that you will occupy... It is capable of holding about 229 people and it is only open on Sunday and Thursday... It may interest you to know that my daughter was married in the W.C. and it was there that she met her husband... I shall be delighted to reserve the best seat for you, if you wish, where you will be seen by everyone."
Paar was so angered by the cutting of the joke that he walked off mid-show, although he did return a month later.