Please no smiles. Not for a while, at least not before you read this and the solution I have found to the whole issue:
Heard the one about the blonde in Austria? Well from tomorrow it will be a criminal offence if you have – and that’s no joke. The country has outlawed gags about blondes as part of the fight against terrorism. Officials fear that marginalised blondes – furious at being portrayed as stupid – could take revenge on society.And heed this part particularly:
Offenders could be sentenced to two years’ jail.Of course the image of a potential fair-haired terrorist strikes... well, terror in one's heart. Surely you don't want to see one of them cleaning a dirty bomb in your vicinity. Still, the world must continue turning around and people have to tell jokes. So, in order to circumvent this draconian law, I propose to identify the above mentioned segment of the population as Potential Austrian Terrorists™ or, for the sake of brevity, PATs™. Here are a few (truncated) examples that will show you the wisdom of this solution:
A PAT™ walks into a mosque and says to the muezzin...
A PAT™ goes to an Apple store and buys an iPod...
A PAT™ stops at a gas station and asks the attendant to check her oil level...
I hope y'all are convinced now.
And I have a similar solution for when they will forbid jokes about politicians. I guess it will be needed fairly soon.
