Paul determined that if anyone asked him, in the years to come, he'd say that if you've ever scared someone, even accidentally or as a joke, that person will flinch when he sees you.
This week he wrote a new joke: "The person I feel most sorry for is Seb Coe.
In the joke, the person who answers the telephone At Goldberg, Goldberg, and Goldberg keeps replying That Goldberg is out of the office.
When I made a joke, the person selling merchandise yelped that "freedom certainly isn't free" (echoing the sentiment of a button I saw worn by many in attendance), and then when I tried to buy something he ignored me and asked for the next in line.
These three wrote the script ensuring a fair supply of jokes per person.
In his autobiography, the Canadian jazz virtuoso Oscar Peterson described the drummer Martin Drew, who has died aged 66 after a sudden heart attack, as "a very happy-go-lucky, joke-quoting person, who has a special dedication to music".
"About all he knows about cars," joked one person who has worked with him, "is that his chauffeur drives one".
Under the circumstances the sword next to my jugular and the warning from David Shorrocks—I decided not to chide him with the old admonition never to make a joke on a person's name because that person has already heard it.
Would it be acceptable to make the same kind of joke about a person in a wheelchair or a person of color?
"It's not one of those places where somebody won't laugh at another person's joke because they want to get their own joke in".
