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Saturday Morning (20 mins)
I wasn’t going to have any time today as the family are coming to visit but my
brother Ken has phoned to say he’ll be late so I can do a bit. I feel reluctance, as
if  there  won’t  be  any  more  jokes,  but  I  know  this  old  feeling,  those  old  blocks
and ignore them. I sit in my mum’s sunny garden and just get on with it. I work
on the planning permission line and come up with:
God created the earth in seven days but only because he didn’t have to get
planning permission.
I think about the nursery story of the Three Little Pigs building houses but don’t
know where it can fit in.
I  do  a  small  joke-web  (really  a  miniature!)  on  ‘awards’  which  yields  nothing
until I ‘Hadron Joke Collide’ the idea of ‘awards’ against ‘building houses’.
Then I come up with...
Optimists in the room have brought in their hod carriers to take awards
home.
Hope you’re wearing hard hats, you’re about to be showered with awards.
(nice lines for giving out awards – not real jokes )
The masons award is actually set in stone.
(reworking of other gag, which is good because it was rubbish in its other form?)

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Did God get an award for creating the planet?
I  manage  to  do  20  minutes  before  my  brother  arrives.  I  realise  that  my  initial
feeling that there were no more jokes is completely wrong (as usual).
My brother is an electrician. He raises his eyebrows when I tell him I am writing
jokes  about  house  building.  So  I  decide  to  tell  him  the  jokes,  weak  ones  and
all.
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He  loves  the  ‘second  son  of  God  being  an  electrician’  one  and  genuinely
smiles  at  the  other  ones.  I  feel  pleased  because  he  is  similar  to  the  audience
she’ll have.