My wife's gone to the West Indies...

[hunta]

You kind of have to persevere with these, but once you start giggling you can't stop. And you can share them with all the family!

-My wife's gone to the West Indies
-Jamaica?
-No, she went of her own accord.

(that's the original one, now prepare for a deluge of variations...)

-My wife's gone to the Indian coast
-Goa?
-Phwoar! I'll say!

-My wife's gone to St Petersburg.
-Is she Russian?
-No, she's taking her time.

-My wife's gone to Northern Italy
-Genoa?
-I should think so, we've been married for 20 years.

-My wife's had an accident on a volcano
-Krakatoa?
-No. She broke her leg.

-My wife's gone mad in Venezuela
-Caracas?
-Yes, absolutely loopy

-My wife's gone to the Welsh border.
-Wye?
-Search me.

-My wife's gone to the botanical gardens.
-Kew?
-Yes, it was rather busy.

-My wife's gone to Malawi
-Lilongwe?
-Yes, about 5,000 miles.

-My wife's got an upset tummy in Laos
-Inkhazi?
-Yes, constantly.

-My wife's gone to see relatives in France
-Nice
(...need I say more...)

-My wife's gone on a singing tour of South Korea
-Seoul?
-No, R&B.

-My wife caught a cold in the Gulf
-Qatar?
-Yes, she was coughing up greenies for weeks.

-My wife had an accident in Slovenia
-Bled?
-Like a stuck pig.

-My wife's parents are from Croatia
-Split?
-No, they're still happily married.

-My wife went to a concert in South East Asia
-Singapore?
-Terrible. And the rest of the band sucked too.

-My wife went on a sailing course in Poole
-In Dorset?
-Yes, she'd recommend it to anyone.

-My wife smoked a joint near Manchester
-In Hale?
-Yes she did.

-My wife skipped off to North Africa.
-Abyssinia?
-Not even so much as a cheerio.


Ba-dum.

 

[Andyk]

Very good hunta ....

 

[marcos]

The Dorset one made me laugh out loud!

Abyssinia is East Africa though - it's the old name for the Ethiopian Empire.

If it matters

 

[Parisien]

Wasn't it an Italian colony....just like Libya used to be.........known as the last place Italy won a battle........?


P

 

[marcos]

Abyssinia was never colonised though the Italians did invade it before WWII.

Like you say last time the Italians won a battle since Carthage (now that *is* in North Africa!)

 

[BennyD]

The Dorset one made me laugh out loud!

Abyssinia is East Africa though - it's the old name for the Ethiopian Empire.

If it matters

Isn't this the spiritual home of all rastas? Not that it matters.