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That reminds me of one of my dad's favourite jokes.

A guy goes up to the shipyard gates and asks to see the foreman. When the foreman comes along he asks "Hey, any chance of a job in your yard?"

"Yes, of course", says the foreman, "if you're prepared to start at the bottom and work your way up. Are you any good at making tea?"

"Yes", says the man, "I can make the tea!"

"Great!", says the foreman, "do you know how to drive a forklift?"

The man squints at him quizzically, "How big is your f***** teapot, then?"



I can totally see why this one would be someone’s favorite.


Any chance someone could explain this to me? I think I'm missing something.


The joke is that the would-be worker assumes the forklift question relates to the previous question, and thus that the teapot is so large that it requires a forklift.




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