Count yourself lucky...
Many moons ago i was visiting friends down in Brighton. We had been out to all the usual hangouts and met up with a group of people; strangers to me but good buddies with my other friends. After a nights carousing, we went back to one of the girl's flat to get some well-deserved shuteye.

Come morning, we assembled in her bedroom to mull over the previous nights events. As I walked into the room, a hamster cage cage caught my eye.

"Wow, a hamster", I expertly observed, "What's his name?"

Now, the actual name has been lost to the fog of old age and lost brain cells, but it's safe to assume that the name was sufficiently strange for me to pass comment on. Let's say 'Alfonzo'.

"What a strange name for a hamster" (I told you so)

"Yeah, I'm looking after it for my brother. He's got pretty severe learning difficulties and wanted to call it that."

"Count yourself lucky, it could've been called Meerggurrpppeeerrrrdurrrrpp *gurning spaz face and a groaning attempt to eat the back of my head*

The whole room – friends and relative strangers alike – fell silent and, as one, turned their gaping mouths to face me, curled on the floor my face contorted in the ecstacy of an expertly pulled one-liner.

Now, I felt absolutely no guilt or shame at the time. It was hilarious after all. It was only several years when my son was born with brain damage that I felt any sense of what that poor girl must have been going through.

I named him Meerggurrpppeeerrrrdurrrrpp in her honour.
(mark schmark, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 16:27, 3 replies)

Reminds me of the jokes about Helen Keller...
Q) Why doesn't Helen Keller's dog come when called?
A) Neither would you if your name was "Eurnrurghh!"

Q) Why does Helen Keller masturbate with only one hand?
A) So she can moan with the other!
(SatchmoR No, mummy, don't put knitting needles in my ears!, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 17:22, closed)

Damn
That's a much better spelling for a mongmoan. Mind if I use it?
(mark schmark, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 17:37, closed)

...and that's my guilty laugh for the day.
(Kendal, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 1:06, closed)