Irish Builders Application

[DTCwordfan]

An Irishman goes on to a building site looking for a job and is told by the foreman that he will have to undertake a brief test. ‘Fine,’ says the Irishman. ‘OK then,’ says the foreman. ‘First up, can you tell me the difference between a joist and a girder?’ ‘That’s easy,’ the Irishman replies. ‘Joyce wrote Ulysses and Goethe wrote Faust.’

[jno]

best Irish joke ever.

[ummmm]

I don't get it.

[gness]

Don't try, Ummmm....it's really not worth it......I think someone Irish has annoyed DT and he wants a little dig...... ;-)

[DTCwordfan]

nope, not at all, Gness.....

[Prudie]

The punchline is so opposite to what one expects from an Irish joke I find it quite clever. Isn't it a compliment?

[DTCwordfan]

I thought the same way, Prudie, a nice play on words.

[Patsy33]

Foreman tought he was tick....

[marval]

I like it.

[Spicerack]

It is a compliment.
Then he asked him to construct a sentence with 'fascinate' in and Paddy said, 'Oive a new donkey jacket with nine buttons but I only fasten eight'.

[davegosling]

"That's easy", the Irishman replies. "A girder is a beam of steel, wood, or reinforced concrete, used as a main horizontal support in a building or structure whereas a joist is a piece of timber laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which the planks of the floor, or the laths or furring strips of a ceiling, are nailed." The Irishman was a fully qualified builder and the foreman employed him straightaway.

[ummmm]

I did get it really :-)

[jno]

it's an anti-irish-joke joke. I like it.