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    Here are some of the top jokes in different countries:

    Top joke in UK

    A woman gets on a bus with her baby. The bus driver says: “That's the ugliest baby that I've ever seen. Ugh!” The woman goes to the rear of the bus and sits down, fuming. She says to a man next to her: “The driver just insulted me!” The man says: “You go right up there and tell him off – go ahead, I'll hold your monkey for you.”

    Top joke in USA

    A man and a friend are playing golf one day at their local golf course. One of the guys is about to chip onto the green when he sees a long funeral procession on the road next to the course. He stops in mid-swing, takes off his golf cap, closes his eyes, and bows down in prayer. His friend says: “Wow, that is the most thoughtful and touching thing I have ever seen. You truly are a kind man.” The man then replies: “Yeah, well we were married 35 years.”

    Top joke in Canada

    When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300 C. The Russians used a pencil.

    Top joke in Australia

    This woman rushed to see her doctor, looking very much worried and all strung out. She rattles off: “Doctor, take a look at me. When I woke up this morning, I looked at myself in the mirror and saw my hair all wiry and frazzled up, my skin was all wrinkled and pasty, my eyes were bloodshot and bugging out, and I had this corpse-like look on my face! What's WRONG with me, Doctor!?”
    The doctor looks her over for a couple of minutes, then calmly says: “Well, I can tell you that there ain't nothing wrong with your eyesight....”

    Top joke in Belgium

    Why do ducks have webbed feet?
    To stamp out fires.
    Why do elephants have flat feet?
    To stamp out burning ducks.


    Top joke in Germany

    A general noticed one of his soldiers behaving oddly. The soldier would pick up any piece of paper he found, frown and say: “That's not it” and put it down again. This went on for some time, until the general arranged to have the soldier psychologically tested. The psychologist concluded that the soldier was deranged, and wrote out his discharge from the army. The soldier picked it up, smiled and said: “That's it.”

    I don't know why but that belgium joke cracked me up, I've been in tears because of it. Great stuff.

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    Sorry for being a jerk, but none of them were funny except for the Canadian Joke. Which I have heard before. In america. From an American :original:
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    Of course Canada would make a joke like that.

    All of them I found to be least a little funny. The British and American ones were my favorite (the German one was actually decent...who knew the Germans had a sense of humor?). The Belgian one would be funny as hell if I were stoned
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    Quote Originally Posted by Last Roman
    Of course Canada would make a joke like that.

    All of them I found to be least a little funny. The British and American ones were my favorite (the German one was actually decent...who knew the Germans had a sense of humor?). The Belgian one would be funny as hell if I were stoned
    Maybe I still have traces of it in me or I am just like that all the time. Those crazy belgians!

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    the UK one and the Belgian one had me in stitches, the others where lame
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    ah, I guess I'm going to have to bust out my Radio Yerevan jokes on you guys

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Yerevan

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    Quote Originally Posted by therussian
    ah, I guess I'm going to have to bust out my Radio Yerevan jokes on you guys

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Yerevan
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    - What would be best for the people: to raise the cost of living and then the salaries or vice-versa?
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    - What kind of night-gown should the bride wear during the first matrimonial night, satin or cotton?
    - It doesn't actually matter, either way she's going to get screwed. The same also applies to the first question.


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    Comedy stereotypes? Interesting! Yes, Belgians are absurd in their humour, but like all people, they can laugh with extremely tasteless jokes. I'd say that absurdity implies to your example.
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    Dutch Humour.

    A Dutchie an belgian guy and a German are imprisoned (this is an old one) by Saddam Houssain.
    One day he let them come to him.He says:"you are going to get 20 lashes on your back, but you can do 1 wish each"
    First goes the belgian he says "I want an door-mat tied up my back" The Belgian guy gets 20 lashes and is dead.
    The German who has seen the Belgian says " I want an matress tied up my back". The German gets 20 lashes and I not dead yet, only halfway.Then Saddam Houssain says: "Because you are a Dutchie and i like your hookers and cannabis you can do 2 wishes"The Dutchie says: "I want to get 40 lashes", "that is okay", "and I want the GERMAN tied up my back"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Garbarsardar
    Second question:

    - What kind of night-gown should the bride wear during the first matrimonial night, satin or cotton?
    - It doesn't actually matter, either way she's going to get screwed. The same also applies to the first question.
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    That is so inappropriate. Tisk tisk....


    Although it was mildly funny.

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    Quote Originally Posted by therussian
    ah, I guess I'm going to have to bust out my Radio Yerevan jokes on you guys

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Yerevan
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    Well sadly no one seems to like danish humour

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    Those jokes are universally awful.

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    They were alright. The American one was funny, and also very true.

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    For some reason the Belgian joke made me laugh the hardest, I guess its just the image of a duck on fire getting stomped by an elephant.

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    I liked Belgium joke as the best.

    Here is just a random finnish joke, this is classic, tho now that we won Eurovision its funnier than ever:

    Hell freezes over before finland wins the Eurovision song contest.

    Lets face it. Finnish people have one of the most obscure sense of humor in the world. Of course is it good or bad thing, that is up to every person themself.



    This is most famous comedy character in Finland most likely, I would say that every finn knows who this guy is and have seen at least one of his movies. Picture itself is just a glimp what you can expect. The whole idea of this character is so weird that I have many times tought that why do we finns get these ideas. Easy to guess, many people here in Finland even find this guy movies lack of good humor and dont find it funny at all. Most of foreign people just watch this character movies with their mouths open, not knowing should they laugh or cry.
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    Well the Canadian one is alright, but the others... just didn't seem that funny to me.




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    Nah, none of them can compare to a good ol' Norwegian joke. Strangely every Norwegian jokes seem to make fun of swedes
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    Quote Originally Posted by El Guapo
    Top joke in Canada

    When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300 C. The Russians used a pencil.
    You know, I think this one is true, not a joke? No, really, then Paperchase or someone bought the pen, and its for sale. That's right, its a true story. Scary, huh?

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    Kind a sarkastic.. just like us

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