Mike and his pregnant wife live on a farm in a rural area in the west of England. No running water, no electricity, etc. One night, Mike's wife begins to deliver the baby. The local doctor is there in attendance. "What d'ya want me to do, Doctor?"
"Hold the lantern, Mike. Here it comes!" the doctor delivers the child and holds it up for the proud father to see. "Mike, you're the proud father of a fine strapping boy."
"Saints be praised, I..."
Before Mike can finish the Doctor interrupts, "Wait a minute. Hold the lantern, Mike." Soon the doctor delivers the next child. "You've a full set now, Mike. A beautiful baby daughter."
"Thanks be to..."
Again the doctor cuts in, "Hold the lantern, Mike, Hold the lantern!" Soon the Doctor delivers a third child. The doctor holds up the baby for Mike's inspection.
"Doctor," asks Mike, "Do you think it's the light that's attracting them?"
I heard this one years ago but the family was from the backwoods of Kentucky! Still funny.
ReplyDeleteSusan, the joke is an oldie, but I had never heard it. Having the setting in the rural west England makes it even funnier than backwoods Kentucky, don't you think?
ReplyDeleteWhere in rural west England? Between Bath and Bristol, on the way to Exeter, or the coast after Plymouth? it doesn't conjure up a setting of thick people.
ReplyDeleteBut wait, what thick people? Around here that would seem very normal to me and others...however, there may not have been any Doctor present.
ReplyDeleteI think it´s amusing because it´s sweet and true (my carpenter has 13 kids, the brick layer twins, all born at home with no medical supervision).
Adrian, no thick people in rural west England? Well then, I suppose the joke doesn't work. Should the joke be set in Guatemala?
ReplyDeleteLook, it doesn't matter to me where the joke is set. Set it in the swamps around where I live. As Leo says, it's sweet and true - and I'd add innocent.
This one is new to me and I think it's dear.
ReplyDeleteThanks!
And it's dear, too, Ellie.
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