Author: Albert Silver
Date: 04:27:13 12/08/04
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On December 08, 2004 at 07:19:47, Andrey Popov wrote:
>On December 07, 2004 at 21:57:50, Steve B wrote:
>
>Sorry, my English is poor and I didn't understand the joke.
>I replaced some words as I understood them (correctly?):
>>
>>A group of chess nuts registered themselves in a hotel and were standing
>>in the open foyer boasting about their recent tournament victories.
>>
>>After about an hour of this ,the manager of the hotel came out of the front
>>office and asked them to scatter from the lobby.
>>
>>BUT WHY??? they asked,as they moved off..
>>BECAUSE,he said, I can't tolerate chess enthusiasts bragging in a lobby.
>>
>What is the sense of this joke?
It is a play on words from a classic Christmas song (in English) that goes
"Chestnuts roasting on an open fire".
Here the phrase "Chess nuts boasting in an open foyer" sounds a lot like the
above phrase when pronounced out loud.
Albert
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