These series of puns and one-liners are accent jokes, and specifically, British accent jokes, so they may not travel so well beyond that. If you find yourself scratching your head wondering why it should be funny, then try it in the relevant accent. If that doesn’t work, comment below and I will try to explain. Of course, it might just be the normal caveat that the jokes aren’t that funny, or original….
Women can do a much better Black Country accent than men. That’s because the female of the species is more Dudley than the male.
Yorkshire chap asks a goldsmith to make a statue of his dog. Goldsmith asks “Eighteen carrat?”. He replies, “Nay, chewing a bone”.
A Geordie chap walked into a hairdressers and asked “Can I have a perm please?” Hairdresser replied, “I wandered lonely as a cloud….”
I was walking through Botanic Gardens in Belfast the other week when I saw two ducks. One said “quack”. The other said “slow down, I’m going as quack as I can”….
A man walks into a bakers in Glasgow and says “is that a cake or a meringue?”. The chap says “no, you’re right. It’s a cake”.
Jousting. What a Brummie asks a bee.
A Yorkshireman takes his cat to the vet to be neutered. ‘Is it a tom?’ asks the vet. He replies, ‘No. It’s in the box”.
A man walks into a retro shop in Birmingham. He says “I’d like a kipper tie please”. Chap behind the counter says “milk & sugar?”
A man goes to a barber in Glasgow, and wriggles about in the chair for a second before he settles. The barber says “comfy?”. He says “Clydebank”.
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Which one? They are all based on UK regional accents
Can you explain the females being better at Black Country accents one? It’s stumped me.
Sure. There’s an old saying that “The female of the species is more deadly than the male”. It was a Rudyard Kipling poem in 1911, and the band Space wrote a song in the 1990s with that title.
Dudley is a town in the West Midlands, in an area called the Black Country, named because of the smoke and soot in the area caused by all of the iron foundries and other factories during the Industrial Revolution.
So, someone who sounds like they are from Dudley will have a Black Country accent, and then the pun is on deadly and Dudley.
Hope that helps!
That are definitely excellent. Many of these tiny details are made getting lot of background knowledge. I am interested in them plenty.
Thank you! If you need any explained, just comment. They are mainly based on UK regional accents.