In parts of the world, husbands regard their sacrificial virgins as property that apparently can be offered into a volcano at will.
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Not just blowing smoke!
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Glasgow airport has been closed after a massive cloud of dust drifted into UK airspace? The cleaner of the Celtic trophy cabinet has now been arrested!
Please add any jokes in the comment box. Thank you
Evokes a number of responses: cute, scary, how it got there, etc.
by Ben Smith on 15th April 2010
NATS -the body that manages the UK’s airspace – closed the skies over Britain today in response to ash produced by an erupting volcano in Iceland; the huge cloud, drifting south from the top of the Eyjafjallajoekull glacier, can cause catastrophic failure of jet engines. Meanwhile, hundreds of geeks have been left wondering how long the iPads they had bullied or begged US-based colleagues and friends to send them would be delayed.
Several Twitter commenters suggested this wasn’t the natural phenomenon it appeared to be and was actually part of Apple’s campaign to limit supply to ‘international’ customers until US demand had been satisfied. Others simply recalled the iPhone shortage at launch – also widely considered an attempt to sustain public hunger for Apple’s lusted-after gadget.
Microsoft fans rejected this claim pointing out that Steve Balmer was a far more likely to be behind the emission of huge amounts of hot air and gas, in an attempt to prevent the iPad talk continuing to overshadow the announcement of the 2 ‘Kin’ devices earlier this week.
This afternoon the Metropolitan Police was establishing a care centre at London’s Heathrow airport to offer councelling to distressed would-be iPad owners who have been gathering there throughout the morning to await news of the arrival of their gadgets.
BBC News “Europe faces prolonged air chaos”… Ermmm, how can there be air chaos when we are all stuck on the ground. |
I woke up this morning to find every surface in the house covered in a layer of dust and a foul stench of sulphur in the air.
No change there then, I’ve been married to the bone idle slob for 20 years.
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“The last wish of the Icelandic economy was to have its ashes scattered over Europe.”
The ash cloud from a volcano in Iceland that has caused travel chaos across Europe has spawned numerous jokes on various Internet blog sites, Facebook and Twitter.
Iceland is only just emerging from the financial crisis and the North Atlantic island nation of just 320,000 has spent months wrangling with Britain and the Netherlands over debts incurred after its tops banks went under in 2008.
It owes the two countries some $5 billion as a result of its failed “Icesave” accounts, but many Icelanders fiercely oppose a repayment and say taxpayers should not have to pay for a mess left by private banks under the watch of other regulators.
“Icelandic taxpayer to Britons and Dutch: forget Icesave, kiss my ash!” one Twitter feed read.
Is Iceland getting the last word?
Jeremy Warner, assistant editor of The Daily Telegraph, wrote in a blog: “Call it Iceland’s revenge, but it appears there is no more effective a way for a small country to get its own back on a larger one than to have an erupting volcano in its midst.”
No trade embargo, however effective, could compete, he said.
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