From news.spc.edu!news.new-york.net!news-peer.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-feed4.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!fugue.clari.net!funny-request Tue Nov 11 04:09:50 1997 Xref: news.spc.edu rec.humor.funny:7396 Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny From: Sharon.Curtis@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Sharon Curtis) Subject: The sixteen-forty-seven train from Paddington has been cancelled... Keywords: smirk, true Approved: funny-request@clari.net Path: news.spc.edu!news.new-york.net!news-peer.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-feed4.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!fugue.clari.net!funny-request Message-ID: Date: Mon, 10 Nov 97 19:30:03 EST Lines: 28 Until recently, British Rail was probably the holder of the most stupid excuses for train cancellations or delays, with ones like these, which are now well-known throughout the UK: "leaves on the line" "the wrong kind of snow" and more recently, a lesser known one about "a cow on the line" But today, on the travel news, a company has really excelled itself, The reason for delays? "a tree had fallen on the track" This doesn't really sound very remarkable, until you realise that the company in question is London Underground. -- Selected by Jim Griffith. MAIL your joke to funny@clari.net. Attribute the joke's source if at all possible. A Daemon will auto-reply. Do you know about rec.humor.funny.reruns? It has all the best jokes from the archives of this group. RHF does only new material. See also at http://comedy.clari.net/rhf