Off Topic Jokes thread

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Throwback to when the Royal Mail issued a special Keir Starmer stamp that allegedly wouldn’t stick to envelopes. Starmer demanded a full investigation. After weeks of testing and £2 million of taxpayers’ money, the findings came in: the stamp was fine—people were just spitting on the wrong side....
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The British once had a politician by the name of George Brown, a man who was almost perpetually three sheets to the wind - or ‘tired and emotional’ as was the preferred phrase at the time. This Mister Brown, had over a period of time held many top government posts, including Foreign Secretary. In this latter capacity, there was an occasion when he attended a party whilst visiting Peru, during which, so the story goes:
“Attending a glittering official reception, with all the military officers in full-dress uniform and the ambassadors in court dress, he is said to have made a bee-line for a gorgeously crimson-clad figure. A colleague later recalled the story: George said:
“Excuse me, but may I have the pleasure of this dance?” There was a terrible silence for a moment before the guest, who knew who he was, replied: “There are three reasons, Mr Brown, why I will not dance with you. The first, I fear, is that you’ve had too much to drink. The second is that this is not, as you suppose, a waltz that the orchestra is playing but the Peruvian national anthem, for which you should be standing to attention. And the third reason why we may not dance, Mr Brown, is that I am the Cardinal Archbishop of Lima.”’
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