On a building site one day a chippy sends Paddy down the scaffold to bring him up a joist.

He's gone a long time, and when he reappears is dragging a massive RSJ behind him."Bloody hell Paddy" says the chippy. "Don't you know the difference between joists and girders ?


Paddy scratches his head and replies, "Ah well sorr, to be sure. Joyce was yer man as wrote Ulysses, but Goethe was only the fella that wrote Faust".

Giles. Mogless in Paris.