posted 2002/10/03 at 13:47
The Official World's Funniest Joke -- and I didn't laugh. Nor did I laugh at any of the other ones mentioned. Then again, my sense of humour tends to the bizarre anyway.
What I find most interesting is the finding that out of all the countries surveyed in this study, Canadians laugh the least. Now, I could go two ways with this: either I could use this for another round of Canadian-bashing (which is always in jest; I really do love Canada, you know), or I could say that Canadians' sense of humour is too refined from years of watching Royal Canadian Air Farce, This Hour Has 22 Minutes and The Red Green Show to fall for such simple drek as was mentioned in the survey.
Although, come to think of it, the fact that Canada produced Rita McNeil and Celine Dion may have Canadians crying in shame too much to laugh at all. Kidding, kidding ... maybe.
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