More flyering in the very very cold col Leicester Square. Tonight was an early shift, five until seven. It was very cold. I’d sort of wrapped up, but the howling wind tunnel that is Coventry Street makes a mockery of any glove/hat/scarf combination. Plus the huge sign saying COMEDY acts a bit like a sail. And it’s a workout just trying to stay rooted to the floor
You get a lot of crap from a lot of people. “Get a proper job”, “tell us a joke”, “Youre a cunt”. Even some scary gang of youths whacking me on the head with a rolled up magazine when my back was turned. It’s fair to say I don’t enjoy flyering.
And a rolled up magazine, maybe these were hyper intelligent irony aware youths, swatting me like a fly as I fly..er.. ah forget it.
But one thing happened today that warmed my cockles, it involved a seven year old boy…hang on, should probably think this sentence through a bit…
Well, what happened was that as I got to the point of the cold being actually painful this boy walks past telling his mum a joke. He said
“What do you call a dinosaur with zero arms?”
Now, firstly, zero arms? Is this part of the clever wordplay of the joke, or is this kid justa bit mixed up? Perhaps they are on holiday and from whatever part of the country they vcome from, using the word zero in such a way is more than fine.
But what was (and still is) bugging me more is that the kid and his mum carried on walking and I didn’t hear the punchline. And Im flummoxed as to what it could be.
A dinosaur with zero eyes? easy, a doyouthinkhesaurus … but zero arms? Apart from anything you like he’s armless I can think of nothing…and that’s a shit punchline even for a seven year old.
So notblog readers – I put it to you… can you work out the punchline…email me at terry@terrysaunders.co.uk and the best answer will win a prize… or something.