Humour
One
So, two dwarves were discussing who would win in a fight between an elf and a bucket of coal dust.
The result was a bit messy, so they called it a drow.
Two
Between our house and the A1 are a couple of rows of monkey puzzle trees.
This is baffling.
18:29 on November 14th, 2004
It’s always puzzled me *why* they’re called monkey puzzle trees…
18:43 on November 14th, 2004
Because monkeys are puzzled as to how they can get down the tree, as the spikes point upwards. So I’m told anyway
18:54 on November 14th, 2004
Allegedly because monkeys find it particularly hard to climb. Or, as I was originally told as a kid, tht they found it easy to climb up, but almost impossible to climb back down. Whether this has to do with the distinctive shape of the branches, the angle at which the spines stand aginst the branches, or a combination of the two, I couldn’t say.
01:12 on November 15th, 2004
Oh, see, I always thought it was because it looked like a big pile of monkies. You know, the sort of curled branches looking like their prehensile tails, as if someone had dropped them out of a barrel and they were all in a tangle and the “puzzle”, as ’twere, was how one picks each individual monkey out. Like pick-up-sticks. Only with monkies. Or, uh, Ker-Plunk. Ker-Monk.