the tuckshop

:p :p :p :lol:

LOVE it. A great joke.

Tod

The trouble is that only British people will likely get the joke.

Unless having no truck with tuck.

:) :)

For the sake of international relations I will give the English translation of this joke.

Estoc = French name for this sword type and the name by which it is generally known

Tuck = English name for this sword

When at school the sweet shop was known as the 'Tuck shop', a word every English person knows, although 'tuck' is also slang for food.

But in case William wants to labour his rather good pun, and to confuse the issue, he lives in Australia and there I believe tuck and tucker are used much more than in the UK, so perhaps his twist on the pun is different to mine.

Either way that should hopefully enlighten all. Although the joke will now be ruined, hopefully you can appreciate it.

Tod

With the sweet shop reference, I just might have a connection as well. Tucks/estocs are dedicated thrusters and even suggested ancestors of the rapier right?

Well when some think of sweets, they think of the dentist.
And what is one of the main things one would be reminded of when thinking of the dentist?

Those damn creepy little sticker tools they use, that's what! ;)

good one from another aussie :D

Don't quit your day job, William.

Jon

im canadian and i got that

although thats probably from the absurd amount of books i used to read
nothin to do with bein canadinan (probably)

Well I know for a fact that if Glennan Carnie or Martin Francis (forumites) had read this, they would both have got it too, so call it a round 3!

Tod

Secretly, I chuckled at this.

However, I've refrained from posting as I don't like to encourage such reckless use of puns. There might be grown-ups reading.

"He who would pun would pick a pocket."

Jon