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The laughing policemen of Assam
See, the thing with naming and shaming is, you’re not meant to do it to yourself. So posting a message on your web site to say that: ‘this profession probably is the most misunderstood one. Every force, every agency has its quota of sadists, eccentrics and deviants... so has this profession,’ might seem like an odd thing to do.
It’s not the oddest thing on the Assam Police web site (www.assampolice.com) though, where the force has asked visitors to post jokes about the police, so that the police officers, both sadists and deviants, can improve their image.
‘The police too have a lighter side. There are plenty of jokes, anecdotes and pleasant encounters with humour,’ the web site tells us. ‘Our effort would be to provide fun and pleasure with special reference to the men in uniform.’
If you can think of a police joke that you can legally place on a web site, then now might be the time to offshore it to Assam.
Regarding French examples of homophones, I expect you will get plenty of people emailing you with this poem or others from the same source:
Un petit d'un petit
S'étonne aux Halles
Un petit d'un petit
Ah! degrés te fallent
Indolent qui ne sort cesse
Indolent qui ne se mène
Qu'importe un petit d'un petit
Tout Gai de Reguennes
From
Mots D'Hures: Gousses Rames
Discovered, Edited, and Annotates by
Luis d'Antin van Rooten
Posted by :Janet Duignan | November 8, 2004 1:18 PM