Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Age: 42 Gender: Male Posts: 171 Location: Birmingham, UK
27 Feb 2005, 8:21 pm
it's a UK joke... someone or other (probably some famous person) from the Wirral had the nickname "the Squirrel from the Wirral", presumably because it rhymed, and thus people from the Wirral are known as Squirrels... i think, anyway...
my scanner doesn't work so i can't draw you a squirrel. but a google image search should yield plenty...
Joined: 28 Dec 2004 Age: 35 Gender: Male Posts: 539 Location: SoCal
05 Mar 2005, 5:47 pm
sorry, I but I dont get europeian humor, I guess I need to watch The Kumars at no. 42 more often on BBC America. I prefer Larry the Cable Guy or Jeff Foxworthy and other Southern American comics.
Joined: 12 Feb 2005 Age: 42 Gender: Male Posts: 224 Location: S.E. London
05 Mar 2005, 6:05 pm
Off topic, but European and British humour is very, very different. British humour tends toward irony, sarcasm, political satire, can be very dry/dead-pan, or be totally surreal. Czech humour is like kiddy slapstick or just really daft - although it also can lean toward the surreal. German humour does exist, contrary to popular belief, but I haven't yet worked it out.
Joined: 10 Sep 2004 Age: 48 Gender: Male Posts: 2,642 Location: The valleys of green and grey
06 Mar 2005, 6:47 am
The German sense of humour has some parallels to the British one as far as I can tell from the German people I have known - it seems to take the form of a dry wit, hard to spot as it is quite subtle but often hilarious. I like Germans too, Bec - my neighbour is German and the kids all love her, her name is Gisela but she has everyone call her Geesh as no one can pronounce it right...
Oh sorry for carrying on with the off topicness rakkety tamm...
I can't draw, but here's a site for you with loads of squirrelness. The pics on this page might make good avatars
I really, really wish I had a scanner right now; I could draw you one if I did; most of the things I draw are animals, my own imaginary characters, and my pets.