> > LOL. One of my favourite jokes from Terry Pratchett's "Reaper Man":
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> > One character: "Did you see his eyes? Like gimlets!"
> > Another character: "Eh? What? What do you mean? You mean like that dwarf who runs the delicatessen on Cable Street?"
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> > Brunnen-"you need knowledge of The Lord of the Rings for this to be funny. Oh, and you also need a terminally awful sense of humour. Fortunately I have both these things."G
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> I get the "dwarf" part, but not the part about the delicatessen on Cable Street. What's that all about?
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> Iss "'Laverne and Gimli' could've been a great sitcom" achar

Sounds like something out of one of my silly-books - the Harvard Lampoon's "Bored of the Rings." It's a wonderful parody or LotR, featuring the Elf "Legolam" and the dwarf "Gimlet," which was what I thought the reference was to, originally.

Interesting aside - Boromir (don't remember his parody-name) gets a prophesy: "Your height is 6'4", two-fifty's your weight, you cash in your chips around page ninety-eight." I really should dig that up sometime and read it again. :-}