DocAtCDIDid you hear about the Viking Rudolph the Red?
He looked outside and proclaimed it was going to rain.
His wife asked, 'What makes you say that?'
Rudolph the Red knows rain, dear.
Third spruce tree on the left
Flippin' 'eck, Tucker!@DocAtCDI Years ago I heard a shaggy dog story joke with the same punchline but quite a bit longer:
Back in Communist era Moscow, an elderly couple are walking home through the city streets one evening.
"The weather's starting to turn", says the man to his wife, "it's starting to snow."
"Snow?" she says. "You're starting to lose your marbles dear husband. It's not that cold, this is just sleety rain."
"Absolutely not" he insists, "it might be sleet, but it's sleety snow".
They bicker back and forward for the next 10 minutes, still not agreeing. Then they spot a man smoking at a bus stop.
"Sir, please, can you tell us what sort of weather is this?"
The well-dressed man stubs out his cigarette and replies: "Of course. It is raining".
"Well that settles it" says the old woman to her husband. "I was right".
"And what makes you say that?"
"Did you not recognise that man? It was Rudolf, he is Chief of the Moscow Communist Party. And Rudolf the Red knows rain, dear."
OCTADE
Lord Kelvin@DocAtCDI
You know Santa had 10 reindeer, yeah?
Dasher
Dancer
Prancer
Vixen
Comet
Cupid
Donner
Blitzen
Rudolph
…and Olive.
Olive, the other reindeer.