A Telling Tale from the Emerald Isle September 16, 2019
Posted by nrhatch in Humor, Joke.trackback
Paddy had long heard the stories of an amazing family tradition.
It seems that his father, grandfather and great-grandfather had all been able to walk on water on their 18th birthday.
On that special day, they’d each walked across the lake to the pub on the far side for their first legal drink.
So when Paddy’s 18th birthday came around, he and his pal Mick took a boat out to the middle of the lake.
Paddy stepped out of the boat and nearly drowned before Mick managed to pull him to safety.
Disappointed and confused, Paddy went to see his grandmother.
“Granny, ’tis me 18th birthday, at long last. So why can’t I walk across the lake like me father, his father and his father before him?”
Granny looked into Paddy’s troubled eyes and shook her head. “Ye father, granddad and great-granddad were all born in December when the lake is frozen. Ye were born in August, ya daft banana!”
Aah . . . that’s better!
Source: e-mail from an unknown author (sent by Granny1947)
Related post: Sunday Smiles At The Lake (Nuggets of Gold)
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Haha!! Love it! 🙂
It ties in well with your Sunday Smiles post. 😀
Yes it does! Great thinking. 🙂
LOL! That’s hilarious! Thanks for the laugh, Nancy. 🙂
Carolyn inspired this post with her post. Here’s to all the daft bananas in our lives! 😛
This boy needs to study meteorology. Funny tale!
Imagine his disappointment . . . with that pub so close, yet so far away!
He’ll have to wait until December.
Patience = a great way to develop character.
Oh my! 🙃
Everyone needs a wise old gran . . . especially daft bananas!
Context is everything, I suppose! 🙂 I think I’ll shift this around just a little to make it a riddle for my granddaughters. I enjoyed this, Nancy!
Excellent idea! Get their minds whirling. 😀
😄😄😄 I wasn’t sure how that one would end!
Granny sends me some good jokes ~ and this one featured another grand granny!
Lol. I did not see that coming. Sort of reminds me of the old chicken joke…
A train company heard the FAA tested the planes’ windshield by shooting a dead chicken at them, under the assumption that if it can survive that, it can survive a bird collision in mid-air. So the train company asked to borrow the chicken launcher to test their new train’s windshield.
They launched the chicken, and it broke the windshield AND got embedded in the conductor’s chair. They asked the FAA for advice on what to do. The FAA reviewed the data and sent back one line: use thawed chickens 🙂
Smart! 😀
Hilarious! 🤣
Here’s to all the daft bananas . . . who keep us amused.