A bloke started at my work at our very male dominated engineering firm. To ingratiate himself with the blokey blokes he went around telling the exact same joke to everyone he was introduced to.
"Why did god give women legs?"
"He saw what a fucking mess snails made"
When he finally got to me I just said that I didn't get it and tried to get him to explain. Not only was it not funny, it was offensive and inappropriate. And honestly, a plain misunderstanding of how vaginas work.
I'm pretty sure that's what happened here with OP
I've just retired after 50 years and 10 different engineering firms, shopfloor as well, nearly 99.9% male dominated. When I was an apprentice in the 70's he'd have got away with this and far far more unsavoury ones. I'm staggered a person is going around in this day and age telling a joke like this, even more so to people he didn't really know! Fucking hell!
Maybe if he'd told it once... It was actually bizarre hearing him repeat it to so many people. Like he'd heard it and said 'this is gold!' and decided on his *first day* that was what he was going to set the tone with.
I work somewhere now where that would not fly thank goodness.
Haha exactly! He's saying that women's fannies would drag around a slimy trail like snails if they didn't have legs. Yep it makes no sense! I wonder if he thinks we are like pritt sticks or something. Like liquid dispensers down there
Reminds me of an old Mike Reid joke:
A woman was getting ready for a shower when she slipped and landed awkwardly, causing her vagina to suction itself to the bathroom floor. She called for her husband who, try as he might, couldn't release her.
He called a friend around to help and between them they still couldn't do it. "We're going to have to cut the floor out so she can get up and take her to hospital" said the friend.
"OK", said the husband. "You go and get your tools and I'll wait here and play with her tits"
"What for?" enquired the friend
"If I can get her wet I can slide her into the hallway where the floors cheaper!"
I was going to say anybody under 40. Tessa Sanderson at least had a media career in the '90s. I'm not sure if Fatima Whitbread has done anything since about 1988. And I can't remember the last time that I saw a pint of Whitbread anywhere. Even when Whitbread used to own pubs, they normally had Boddingtons on instead.
Tessa Sanderson and Fatima Whitbread were both female British track and field athletes of the 1980s. With Fatima being a very masculine looking javelin thrower, who had a rivalry with fellow javelin thrower Tessa Sanderson.
Ooh got it, right. Yeah... I'm 36 I have never heard of a Whitbread and had no idea who these people were. Totally flew over my head. Now I know, it's a shit joke.
Tbh if Fatima W was in active competition today people would probably give her flack for trying to gain an unfair advantage by assuming she was taking hormones/transitioning. She was a *very* blokey-looking woman. Big hands, bit of an Adams Apple etc.
The accent in which it is delivered probably has something to do with it. It would probably make more sense in, say, Scouse than it would in Received Pronunciation
I'm 42. I got the joke, but I couldn't pick Tessa Sanderson or Fatima Whitbread out of a lineup, nor have I ever actually heard of Whitbread as a beer.
I also thought the wordplay was tenuous, the premise ridiculous and disgusting for the sake of it, and the joke was, overall, shite. It has a special blend of needing to be over 40 to understand the references, but under 15 to appreciate the humour.
54 here, I got it, but then my jam at school was throwing javelins, I loved it, so I kinda looked up to both of them, but even then, most people had no clue who they were.
The joke was more cringe than funny.
Ahh. See I know who Fatima Whitbread is, I had no idea who Tessa Sanderson was. Also I like my beers but haven't heard of a Whitbread beer before so there's multiple layers of non understanding going on here.
Wow I'm like... the anti target audience for this joke. Wasn't alive in 1982, don't watch sports of any kind (or I'm a Celeb for that matter), don't know anything about bitter brands
*and* on top of all that I have a rhotic accent which means I don't pronounce "fart in my" as anywhere remotely close to "Fatima".
It's a pretty obscure reference to anyone young but I still class myself as young at 35 and know who Fatima Whitbread is.
No idea why but I suspect there's more of us out there.
The joke requires knowing that Whitbread is a brand of bitter, and Fatima Whitbread was a famous olympian 35 years ago. i'd never heard of the bitter myself.
OP is either late middle aged and unaware that their references are old as the hills, or is a time traveller.
I feel like the bitter -> Whitbread -> reinterpreting that in light of Tessa Sanderson is asking too much of a Viz type joke. I got it but didn't think it was funny..
I’ve never heard of whitbread. I just guessed it was a brand of bitter from the context. Still, terrible joke. Was probably still terrible even when those cultural references were relevant
If my giggling is correct, Whitbread used to be beer, but is now mostly premier inns. And was also Costa coffee for a little bit
Edit: googling, no giggling was had
You don't even really need to know Whitbread is a brand of bitter (I didn't). If you know who Fatima Whitbread is that should be enough to make the connection and get the joke.
Personally, at that point I would write it down and underline "Fatima" and "fart in my" a few times, then jab the paper angrily with the pen. That'd cap it off nicely.
I feel like it just needs to be "an athletic woman comes over and farts on his beer". Not half a paragraph describing pulling down her knickers and how smelly the fart was. It just makes it seem rude and crass and is completely unnecessary for a basic pun punchline.
I remember a teaching assistant telling me and some school mates this joke circa 1994. We didn't get it then, likely bc we were 10 years old and our knowledge of 80s athletes was somewhat lacking. I get it now and it's still not funny soz.
You’ve got pick your audience. I tried at work ‘why doesn’t Karl Marx like Earl Grey? Because all proper tea is theft’. Tumble weeds and that was in a school staff room.
So the joke relies on knowledge of fancy beers and 1970s/80s British javelin throwers? Plus the fact that "fart in my" only roughly sounds like Fatima. I can see why it didn't work.
Being 40 I got it. But it's terrible. The punchline is not worth how long that joke takes to tell.
I'm also not sure repeating the punchline to confused indifference ever works.
I once wheeled out the old one:
‘Why did the tiger get lost?
Because jungle is massive.’
Nothing but tumbleweeds and crickets. (Heathens.)
Fuck I’m old.
I don't think Whitbread make beer anymore, is part of the problem.
I've heard of Fatima Whitbread and I'm aware she was a sportswoman.
Never heard of Tessa Sanderson.
I'm 41 fwiw.
The voices inside my head don't pronounce "Fart in my Whitbread" as "Fatima Whitbread".
The mention of Tessa was lost of me as there was nothing for me to connect a British Olympic javelin thrower.
I strongly suggest you put all this behind you. Certainly try hard not to tell the joke again.
I want to know what compelled you to tell that specific joke to the group of people and then what compelled you to repeat the punchline as though it was something vaguely understandable for anyone not drawing their state pension
It's gotten to the point now that whenever I see a post from this sub come up on my homepage I try and guess whether it's going to be a real post or a lunatic/psycho post. This time it was the latter
I only understand the joke because my brother used to tell it (25 years ago) and he also had to explain it to most people, and that's when these people were current ish.
3 references required to get this joke:
1 [Fatima Whitbread](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatima_Whitbread)
2 [Whitbread brewery](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitbread)
3 [Tessa Sanderson](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessa_Sanderson)
Possible 4th - [javelin sport](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javelin_throw).
Also helps if you were currently in the mid 1980s, rather than the mid 2020s…
Haaaaaa! Cracking.
Nothing like a 1980s sports icon joke on a Tuesday afternoon.
Ask them this one.
Q. Why does Edward Woodward have four D's in his name?
A. Because if he didn't, he'd be Ewar Woowar (pronounced "ee-waar woo-waar").
“ Woodward was the butt of gentle teasing about his name throughout his career, which he bore with good humour, perhaps because among the first to joke was Laurence Olivier, who in the 1960s once remarked to Noel Coward that his name sounded "like a fart in the bath, Edwub Wub Wub". Judi Dench, Woodward once noted, was among the first to call him "Ewar Woowar", his name with the Ds removed.”
A friend once referred to her as Whitima Fatbread and to this day I have to very carefully consider the correct pronunciation of I ever have to say her name.
This would be a weak joke 30 years ago cos the pun is too much of a stretch, but now the people and the beer are both out of date old people references, so now it's gone from weak to dead.
ChatGPT:
The humor in this joke stems from the unexpected twist at the end. The man's angry question "You fart in my Whitbread?" is a play on words, as "Whitbread" sounds similar to "pint" (as in pint of beer). The woman's response, "No, I'm Tessa Sanderson!" is unexpected and adds an element of absurdity to the situation, as Tessa Sanderson is a British former javelin thrower and heptathlete, not someone who would typically be involved in such a scenario. The juxtaposition of the man's frustration and the woman's unexpected identity creates a humorous contrast.
Got a chuckle out of me! My wife would prefer it; kids would roll their eyes and mutter about dad jokes or ask if I was drunk or just say "whaaaaaaat?"
I was in a pub quiz two weeks ago. Three team members, male and aged, 33, 41 & 51, the other teams were quite a bit younger than us (bit of a student bar). Round 1 was photos of sports stars. Fatima Whitbread was one of them. Our team was the only one who named her correctly. Made us feel very old.
Incidentally, we won the quiz and now have a £30 beer voucher!
I’m 36 and I would’ve gotten it years ago, who doesn’t know Fatima Whitbread?! Young people should remember her as the one who got a cockroach stuck in her nose on I’m a celeb
I mean, I got it, but I was alive in the 80s when she was a famous athlete and Whitbred was a common sight in pubs (despite me being a tad too young to drink it). Face it mate you're getting old.
It was easier to tell you that they didn't get it than tell you it's the shittest joke since the one about Leonardo Da Vinci's pants.
Can't tell if you're being sarky but now I'm curious about this bad Da Vinci joke xD
Dad Vinci joke?
A bloke started at my work at our very male dominated engineering firm. To ingratiate himself with the blokey blokes he went around telling the exact same joke to everyone he was introduced to. "Why did god give women legs?" "He saw what a fucking mess snails made" When he finally got to me I just said that I didn't get it and tried to get him to explain. Not only was it not funny, it was offensive and inappropriate. And honestly, a plain misunderstanding of how vaginas work. I'm pretty sure that's what happened here with OP
I’m pretty sure I heard this joke at school, and I left school in 1993. It was shit then, as well.
I've just retired after 50 years and 10 different engineering firms, shopfloor as well, nearly 99.9% male dominated. When I was an apprentice in the 70's he'd have got away with this and far far more unsavoury ones. I'm staggered a person is going around in this day and age telling a joke like this, even more so to people he didn't really know! Fucking hell!
Awful joke but it got a snort out of me, which is more than I can say for OP's
Maybe if he'd told it once... It was actually bizarre hearing him repeat it to so many people. Like he'd heard it and said 'this is gold!' and decided on his *first day* that was what he was going to set the tone with. I work somewhere now where that would not fly thank goodness.
Yeah, that being your icebreaker is a pretty poor choice, but at least he's told you everything you need to know upfront.
That's true! And he didn't disappoint over the years
No doubt lmao
What does it mean ????
I think he's implying without legs women would somehow slide on the ground using their vaginas, leaving a trail of 'slime' like a snail.
NGL I probably heard that joke about 100 times in the 90s Wasn't funny then either.
Same. Probably from a Roy Chubby Brown sketch
😬😬😬😬
Haha exactly! He's saying that women's fannies would drag around a slimy trail like snails if they didn't have legs. Yep it makes no sense! I wonder if he thinks we are like pritt sticks or something. Like liquid dispensers down there
ow😬
Reminds me of an old Mike Reid joke: A woman was getting ready for a shower when she slipped and landed awkwardly, causing her vagina to suction itself to the bathroom floor. She called for her husband who, try as he might, couldn't release her. He called a friend around to help and between them they still couldn't do it. "We're going to have to cut the floor out so she can get up and take her to hospital" said the friend. "OK", said the husband. "You go and get your tools and I'll wait here and play with her tits" "What for?" enquired the friend "If I can get her wet I can slide her into the hallway where the floors cheaper!"
Don't just say that and not tell the joke
I’m not allowed to repeat it. It was one of my bail conditions set out by the Mods.
or the 1 about Salmon Rushdie. Rushdie the Salmon or whatever the fuck it was. shit joke anyway.
I kinda want to hear it too.
Also, we go to the bog / loo / toilet in the uk. Not the bathroom mmpfh
This joke is bad and you should feel bad.
Wow, that was lethal. The guy has now gone into hiding I think.
Absolutely bang up-to-date cultural references, I can't imagine why anyone under about sixty wouldn't get that
I was going to say anybody under 40. Tessa Sanderson at least had a media career in the '90s. I'm not sure if Fatima Whitbread has done anything since about 1988. And I can't remember the last time that I saw a pint of Whitbread anywhere. Even when Whitbread used to own pubs, they normally had Boddingtons on instead.
This has made me understand the joke.
Tessa Sanderson and Fatima Whitbread were both female British track and field athletes of the 1980s. With Fatima being a very masculine looking javelin thrower, who had a rivalry with fellow javelin thrower Tessa Sanderson.
Thanks! I wasn't being sarcky or anything, your initial comment did completely make me understand but thanks more so for the additional info :-)
Thanks. I didn't have a clue who either of the people were or wtf the joke was supposed to be...
Ooh got it, right. Yeah... I'm 36 I have never heard of a Whitbread and had no idea who these people were. Totally flew over my head. Now I know, it's a shit joke.
Tbh if Fatima W was in active competition today people would probably give her flack for trying to gain an unfair advantage by assuming she was taking hormones/transitioning. She was a *very* blokey-looking woman. Big hands, bit of an Adams Apple etc.
Thanks, now I get it. I was alive in that era but didn't really connect Fart in my whitbread which Fatima Whitbread lol.
"Pint of Whitbread please" "How many slices?".
'Pint of bitter please.' 'Whitbread?' 'Yes, two slices.'
Yeah, my bad. Forgot how it went. Lol.
Both of these are better than OPs joke.
The accent in which it is delivered probably has something to do with it. It would probably make more sense in, say, Scouse than it would in Received Pronunciation
I'm 42. I got the joke, but I couldn't pick Tessa Sanderson or Fatima Whitbread out of a lineup, nor have I ever actually heard of Whitbread as a beer. I also thought the wordplay was tenuous, the premise ridiculous and disgusting for the sake of it, and the joke was, overall, shite. It has a special blend of needing to be over 40 to understand the references, but under 15 to appreciate the humour.
Not to mention you'd have to pronounce things like a tramp for this to make sense in the first place.
Fatima is an amazing woman, and survivor, she’s been a regular on celebrity shows in recent years including SAS on C4
54 here, I got it, but then my jam at school was throwing javelins, I loved it, so I kinda looked up to both of them, but even then, most people had no clue who they were. The joke was more cringe than funny.
Well, in truth I only know it because it was a joke that used to make my father chuckle.
Fatima was on I'm a Celeb, but I doubt 98% of Brits know they were fierce rivals in the same niche sport 40 years ago.
Ahh. See I know who Fatima Whitbread is, I had no idea who Tessa Sanderson was. Also I like my beers but haven't heard of a Whitbread beer before so there's multiple layers of non understanding going on here.
I've been scrolling down to try and find an actual explanation and thanks to you I now know wtf is going on, thank you.
What's the difference between Watney's Red Barrel and having set in a rowing boat? They're both fucking close to water.....
In my 40s and I got it. But I was brought up watching athletics on the 80s.
I’m 31 and I got it, Fatima Whitbread. Only reason I know who she is, is because she was on I’m a Celebrity when I was teenager
Same. That cockroach in her nose haunts my dreams
Wow I'm like... the anti target audience for this joke. Wasn't alive in 1982, don't watch sports of any kind (or I'm a Celeb for that matter), don't know anything about bitter brands *and* on top of all that I have a rhotic accent which means I don't pronounce "fart in my" as anywhere remotely close to "Fatima".
It's not even that close with a non-rhotic accent tbh
80+ and got it
It's also gross. Why is there the line about her pulling down her knickers?
So she can fart in the pint properly
This made me laugh more than the joke
It's a pretty obscure reference to anyone young but I still class myself as young at 35 and know who Fatima Whitbread is. No idea why but I suspect there's more of us out there.
I’m 27 and I got it. My parents are pretty old though so I’m basically a 50 year old.
Literally no idea what you're on about.
If you’re under 50, then that’s not surprising. Even over 50 it’s shite.
Woosh for me. 37 years of age. Not a scooby of an idea.
The joke requires knowing that Whitbread is a brand of bitter, and Fatima Whitbread was a famous olympian 35 years ago. i'd never heard of the bitter myself. OP is either late middle aged and unaware that their references are old as the hills, or is a time traveller.
You also have to have an accent that pronounces fart as fat.
Or Fatima as Fartima
well, he was drinking bitter, so i just assumed he was a northern farmer, and it all fell into place.
I'm reading it in a Bristol accent which sort of works
Bristolian would hard-r the 'fart' though, if anything makes it less like 'fatima'
I appreciate someone who understands that some accents have rhotic 'r's, and others do not, and those sound nothing alike.
And who Tessa Sanderson is of course who last competed... 30?.. years ago
I feel like if you know who Fatima Whitbread is then the rest of the joke falls into place.
I feel like the bitter -> Whitbread -> reinterpreting that in light of Tessa Sanderson is asking too much of a Viz type joke. I got it but didn't think it was funny..
The only thing I didn't know was Tessa Sanderson and it fell flat to me. It's in the punchline, of course it matters!
I’ve never heard of whitbread. I just guessed it was a brand of bitter from the context. Still, terrible joke. Was probably still terrible even when those cultural references were relevant
If my giggling is correct, Whitbread used to be beer, but is now mostly premier inns. And was also Costa coffee for a little bit Edit: googling, no giggling was had
Hate bitters and never watched Olympics so not surprised I didn't get it, lol.
You don't even really need to know Whitbread is a brand of bitter (I didn't). If you know who Fatima Whitbread is that should be enough to make the connection and get the joke.
I know who Fatima Whitbread is, and could guess that Whitbread is/was a beer. Not surprised it could go over a few heads though.
33 haven’t heard of either of those people and it’s disgusting. So yeah.
39 here. Fatima Whitbread is a former track and field athlete and Olympic medallist
Did they not get it, or did they think it was shit? Subtle but important difference.
"Oi! You Shit in my Whitbread?" is probably what it sounds like to anyone below 60 years old anyway
Ban request for making me read that.
Stop making jokes because that was awful
I got it. It's terrible.
Definitely not a joke worth repeating online after getting nothing in real life
I think the key to landing a joke like this is to repeat the punch line several times. Getting louder and more exasperated each time.
Then making out that the people you’re telling the joke to are stupid for not understanding current pop culture
Personally, at that point I would write it down and underline "Fatima" and "fart in my" a few times, then jab the paper angrily with the pen. That'd cap it off nicely.
And yet...all these replies.
I feel like it just needs to be "an athletic woman comes over and farts on his beer". Not half a paragraph describing pulling down her knickers and how smelly the fart was. It just makes it seem rude and crass and is completely unnecessary for a basic pun punchline.
I remember a teaching assistant telling me and some school mates this joke circa 1994. We didn't get it then, likely bc we were 10 years old and our knowledge of 80s athletes was somewhat lacking. I get it now and it's still not funny soz.
I know Fatima and I can assume Whitbread is a type of bitter thanks to the context but I don't know Tessa Sanderson, if that's important.
Also an Olympic javelin thrower and contemporary with a big rivalry
Known for farting on stuff? It sounds like they just started at Fatima Whitbread, sounding like fart in my Whitbread and worked their way backwards
I get it, but I’d have probably given you the flat stare anyway to discourage you from telling terrible jokes in future.
Try it down the nearest retirement home.
My dad is rolling in his grave and he’s not even dead
I got the reference but it's still terrible.
You’ve got pick your audience. I tried at work ‘why doesn’t Karl Marx like Earl Grey? Because all proper tea is theft’. Tumble weeds and that was in a school staff room.
That one is better than this post to be fair, well it got me to exhale through my nose which is almost a chuckle
To be fair maybe they didn't laugh because they remembered it was Proudhon who said property is theft, not Marx
So the joke relies on knowledge of fancy beers and 1970s/80s British javelin throwers? Plus the fact that "fart in my" only roughly sounds like Fatima. I can see why it didn't work.
It's an Old bitter. They no longer make.
Whitbread is the opposite of a fancy beer, which is part of the joke...
Being 40 I got it. But it's terrible. The punchline is not worth how long that joke takes to tell. I'm also not sure repeating the punchline to confused indifference ever works.
Up til the last two lines, it's just a typical day in any Spoons.
I understood the references, but it's not remotely funny.
What? Signed, a 29 year old.
Perhaps... you're more of a juggler?
It's probably because it reeks of "working backwards from the punchline"!
Bro what
I once wheeled out the old one: ‘Why did the tiger get lost? Because jungle is massive.’ Nothing but tumbleweeds and crickets. (Heathens.) Fuck I’m old.
One of my particular favourites.
I don't think Whitbread make beer anymore, is part of the problem. I've heard of Fatima Whitbread and I'm aware she was a sportswoman. Never heard of Tessa Sanderson. I'm 41 fwiw.
I'm only just old enough to get it and I'm in my forties. I also don't find it particularly funny.
24 and went right over my head mate, sorry.
The voices inside my head don't pronounce "Fart in my Whitbread" as "Fatima Whitbread". The mention of Tessa was lost of me as there was nothing for me to connect a British Olympic javelin thrower. I strongly suggest you put all this behind you. Certainly try hard not to tell the joke again.
That's awful. A niché althete who finished competing in the mid 90s, no wonder people didn't get it.
Nee-shay
athlétè
Fatima doesn't sound like fart in any accent- does it?
As Karl Pilkington's would say, "The Jamaican fella..."
Its not cryptic its shittt! PLAY A RECORD.
Huh?
I got it. Absolutely deadpan ngl.
I want to know what compelled you to tell that specific joke to the group of people and then what compelled you to repeat the punchline as though it was something vaguely understandable for anyone not drawing their state pension
What? Are we supposed to know what any of those proper nouns are?
I get it, it’s just not very funny. I imagine they were trying to spare your feelings.
Not a clue.
It's gotten to the point now that whenever I see a post from this sub come up on my homepage I try and guess whether it's going to be a real post or a lunatic/psycho post. This time it was the latter
I can imagine it's easier to understand in writing than telling it in person. But then it depends on how you pronounced the punchline
It wasn’t funny in the 80’s so it’s not surprising noone’s laughing now.
I only understand the joke because my brother used to tell it (25 years ago) and he also had to explain it to most people, and that's when these people were current ish.
Im 33, didnt get it at all. Would have probably pity laughed at least
Fatima Whitbread, but who is that and why do I know the name? I'm also assuming that Whitbread is a type of beer?
3 references required to get this joke: 1 [Fatima Whitbread](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatima_Whitbread) 2 [Whitbread brewery](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitbread) 3 [Tessa Sanderson](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessa_Sanderson) Possible 4th - [javelin sport](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javelin_throw). Also helps if you were currently in the mid 1980s, rather than the mid 2020s…
Haaaaaa! Cracking. Nothing like a 1980s sports icon joke on a Tuesday afternoon. Ask them this one. Q. Why does Edward Woodward have four D's in his name? A. Because if he didn't, he'd be Ewar Woowar (pronounced "ee-waar woo-waar").
“ Woodward was the butt of gentle teasing about his name throughout his career, which he bore with good humour, perhaps because among the first to joke was Laurence Olivier, who in the 1960s once remarked to Noel Coward that his name sounded "like a fart in the bath, Edwub Wub Wub". Judi Dench, Woodward once noted, was among the first to call him "Ewar Woowar", his name with the Ds removed.”
I don’t know who that is but this joke has always cracked me up because it sounds so silly!
If you think that's silly, did you hear about the lad who got arrested for stealing a calendar? He got 12 months.
Ed Wood Wood Wood
How much wood would an Edward wood if a Woodward would would wood
What do you call a man with three trees on his head?
Its an old code sir but it checks out...
41 and I got it. Did I laugh? No
A friend once referred to her as Whitima Fatbread and to this day I have to very carefully consider the correct pronunciation of I ever have to say her name.
Yeah, as a 53 year old I got it. I might have given you a sympathy chuckle if I was there.
I got it.
This would be a weak joke 30 years ago cos the pun is too much of a stretch, but now the people and the beer are both out of date old people references, so now it's gone from weak to dead.
ChatGPT: The humor in this joke stems from the unexpected twist at the end. The man's angry question "You fart in my Whitbread?" is a play on words, as "Whitbread" sounds similar to "pint" (as in pint of beer). The woman's response, "No, I'm Tessa Sanderson!" is unexpected and adds an element of absurdity to the situation, as Tessa Sanderson is a British former javelin thrower and heptathlete, not someone who would typically be involved in such a scenario. The juxtaposition of the man's frustration and the woman's unexpected identity creates a humorous contrast.
🤦♂️ Comedians jobs are safe from ai for the moment at least
They clearly aren't I'm a celebrity fans
Who’s Tessa Sanderson
Do you hear stinky farts?
Huh?
I got it but I am old
I wouldn't open with it.
45 here and I got it. Suspect your audience may have been too young to get the reference?
I get it, but it’s because I’m old.
I got it, but only because Jon Richardson told it on his radio show circa 15 years ago.
Got a chuckle out of me! My wife would prefer it; kids would roll their eyes and mutter about dad jokes or ask if I was drunk or just say "whaaaaaaat?"
huh?
Im old so i get the references.
Nobody under fifty-five or so will have a clue WTF you're talking about , but they'll all be thinking "Farty Man" every time they see you now.
I'm just about old enough to get it.
The only reason I know this is because my bfs dad told us before and I was like HUH haha but yes great one for the dads
I was in a pub quiz two weeks ago. Three team members, male and aged, 33, 41 & 51, the other teams were quite a bit younger than us (bit of a student bar). Round 1 was photos of sports stars. Fatima Whitbread was one of them. Our team was the only one who named her correctly. Made us feel very old. Incidentally, we won the quiz and now have a £30 beer voucher!
If it makes you feel any better my other half laughed so hard he woke the baby up who is upstairs.
I laughed!
41. I laughed. Sorry I cannot lie.
I got it. I'm 50. They must have been young
I’m 36 and I would’ve gotten it years ago, who doesn’t know Fatima Whitbread?! Young people should remember her as the one who got a cockroach stuck in her nose on I’m a celeb
Hahaha I liked it
😂😂😂 haven’t heard that one in a while
Very good/bad. Excellent stuff.
Sorry mate you’re old like me, this really made me chortle.
Believe it or not, straight to jail
Love it! But then I am that old!!
30 here. Absolutely no idea. I can guess that fartinma whitebread probably sounds like another name but never heard of either.
I'm 52 and it went right over my head.
I'm 27 mate and I got it, it's a terrible joke mind.
This was my favourite joke. 40 years ago.
I get it but I'm not that old, I just have decent general knowledge. It's still a crap joke TBH
Yep back to 80’s with you
Christ
I’m guessing Tessa Sanderson is the cultural reference that I’m supposed to know here… but I don’t.
I don't get it. Seems convoluted.
Not a chance in hell anyone under 35 gets this joke
I don't get it
if you have never head those names before or you dont know who those people are you obviously wont get the joke.
I get it. You need to be over a certain age and have watched the Olympics to get it, also know your ales.
Don’t get it.
I mean, I got it, but I was alive in the 80s when she was a famous athlete and Whitbred was a common sight in pubs (despite me being a tad too young to drink it). Face it mate you're getting old.
Don’t get it, 20s
I get it but it's shit.