Subject: English humour

Hello Everyone,
I don't know about you, but I think it's been a long and bloody awful
winter. But there are occasional things that postpone my contemplated
suicide for another few weeks. The following is one of them (adapted
from austria). Pia Kjaersgaard died and - somewhat surprisingly to those who
did not vote for her - ended up in heaven. Life was pretty quiet there -
angels plucking their harps and all that sort of thing - and PK was a bit
overwhelmed by the (kind of Canadian?) niceness of her surroundings.
But when she looked down at those in Hell she saw that they were having a
grand time. Parties all day, dancing, booze, orgies, the lot. So she asked
god if she could go down to hell and join in for a while. God said OK, she
could go for a day and she did. and she had a grand time of it. Of course,
after a few more days with the angels, she wanted to go back down to hell
again.
so she asked God's permission once more and once more God gave it. PK
came back to heaven with a serious hangover and sore limbs from the
partying.
This went on a few more times, until Pia asked God whether she
couldn't stay down in Hell. It was so much more fun. God thought about it and
agreed and PK went down to hell, where she was promptly burnt in brimstone,
whipped from morning to night with a cat-and- nine-tails, tortured on
the rack, and so on. Eventually she got to see the Devil and complained:
"What's going on here? Life was so much fun when I came down here for
a day at a time from heaven. Now it's pure - well - hell." "Ah!" Said the
Devil.
"But before you were a tourist. Now you're an immigrant."