A welcome repeat on the radio yesterday of a comedy programme written and performed by the lovely Linda Smith. A woman goes into a shop and questions the manager: “Is this CD genuine whale song?” “No madam”, he replies, “It’s a cover by a tribute band of dolphins, signature tune, ‘Hey, Hey, We’re the Minkies …’”
Asked once in an interview where she grew up, Linda replied that it was a dreary place on the Thames Estuary in Kent called Erith. "Erith wasn't twinned with anywhere," she said, "but it did have a suicide pact with Dagenham …” (Amended 5th November after David M - see comment below - points out that I forgot the critical element of the joke ...)
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David Morris
5/11/2019 06:23:28 pm
Peter, I remember this as "Erith isn't twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham"
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