![]() ![]() “Whomever can figure out this problem while using computer programs will win.” The Devil finally thinks he has a way to defeat Jesus: a computing duel. The grasshopper replies, “What? You’ve got a drink named Steve?” The bartender looks up and says “Hey, we’ve got a drink named after you!” He walks over to the counter and sits down. Compiled by The State Journal-Register staffĪ grasshopper walks into a bar. Nearly everyone claimed they couldn’t take credit for writing them - and in all but a couple of cases, we can’t verify who crafted these pieces of hilarity - but we sure appreciate everyone passing them along. Thanks to Katie Zarack, Chuck Tisckos, Paula Antonacci, Doug Barringer, Joyce Bucklin, Alexis Sturm, Kevin Seiders, Bud Price, Joel Sander, Craig Ewing, Bob Wells, Darryl E. We received story jokes, riddles, variations on “A guy walks into a bar,” and some jokes that are so short, you couldn’t possibly mess up the punch line. ![]() That’s why we asked readers to send in their favorite clean jokes. You don’t want to be caught without something to make other people smile. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.Central Illinois has plenty of people who know a good joke when they hear one.īut what if you don’t? April Fool’s Day is coming. “ Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. It is sharing of these moments of good food, good wine but above all good friends that marks the best in life… even sharing those groan-filled dad jokes. I had to admit to never having tasted either corvina or rondinella so a trip to Murrumbateman is on the cards. So dear reader, get some in quick before Bryan sells out this vintage.īryan tells me that he now makes 18 different wines but the majority are Italian-based grape varieties including some wines that are not within the popular lexicon: corvina, montepulciano, fiano, primitivo (zinfandel) and rondinella. We have released the 2018 now, from March.” We make close to 1500 cases and they sell out within months. Doing Malaysian food, he doesn’t need to do wine, so it’s good that he’s chosen this one. “Abel has had it on the wine list for a long time as he thinks it goes well with the style of cooking he adopts. This wine doesn’t need a big block of meat to go with it, it can take Asian vegetables. “Abel’s food is sort of left field for sangiovese but I made it to go well with savoury food, particularly because of the acidity and fine tannins. “My background in cooking, I used to be a chef, meaning that this was the first variety I planted,” he said. I asked him if he had made the sangiovese as a food wine rather than a quaffer. I called Bryan feeling guilty about disturbing him during harvest, but he told me he was already at the bottling stage. My friends murmured praise for the balance in the wine, a good mixture of fruit and savoury with a very clean, lightly tannic finish. And that I knew Bryan from when I worked with him as a writer for another journal. I mentioned to my friends that Bryan Martin, the owner and winemaker at Ravensworth, is also the winemaker at Clonakilla, the vineyard that carries the Canberra district’s shiraz viognier as a flagship wine. It complemented the chilli lamb and the duck dish. I saw a website where it was retailing at $28 but with the clear indication it had sold out at that price. At $49.90 a bottle in the restaurant, it is not cheap. I suggested that we order this wine not only because of its extraordinary compatibility with Asian food, but to show off some of the best wine from the region. The Ravensworth 2017 sangiovese was the local wine of choice. We decided to have dinner where spicy food prevailed given the autumnal night temperatures and we went to Abel’s Kopi Tiam at Manuka. ![]() Wow says the barman, I have never in my life before served a weasel, what can I get you? Elevated by this reaction he says: “Oh, what about this one, it’s better:Ī weasel walks into a bar. Okay, so my mate doesn’t get it until, excruciatingly, I explain it by reference to what termites eat… wood, the bar. So, see how cryptic you think it is: Richard Calver.Ī termite walks into a bar and says: Where’s the bartender? They are amongst a number who haven’t connected with my latest “walk-into-a-bar joke”. TWO Sydney friends arrived for a sojourn. ![]()
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