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1media/A1N4A9P3.png2024-11-26T15:05:19-05:00"For Those Who Are Bored"8A joke with a play on wordsplain2024-11-27T18:48:21-05:0009-16-1890Translation: A traveller, who had just decended onto the train platform, slips and falls. People gather around and an employee kindly asks:
"Are you hurt much?"
"No," the traveller replies, "I only have one overnight bag."
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Note: The joke is lost in translation. The phrase: "Are you hurt much?" in French, "Avez-vous beaucoup de mal?" sounds the same as "Avez-vous beaucoup de malles?," or "Do you have a lot of luggage?"
