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    August, 1998, Montevideo, Uruguay

    Paolo Esperanza, bass-trombonist with the Simphonica Mayor de Uruguay, in a misplaced moment of inspiration decided to make his own contribution to the cannon shots fired as part of the orchestra's performance of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture at an outdoor children's concert. In complete seriousness he placed a large, ignited firecracker, which was equivalent in strength to a quarter stick of dynamite, into his aluminum straight mute and then stuck the mute into the bell of his quite new Yamaha in-line double-valve bass trombone.

    Later, from his hospital bed he explained to a reporter through bandages on his mouth,' 'I thought that the bell of my trombone would shield me from the explosion and instead, would focus the energy of the blast outward's and away from me, propelling the mute high above the orchestra, like a rocket.''

    However, Paolo was not up on his propulsion physics more...

    Knock Knock
    Who's there?
    Uruguay!
    Uruguay who?
    You go Uruguay and I'll go mine

    Knock Knock
    Who's there?
    Uruguay!
    Uruguay who?
    You go Uruguay and I'll go mine!

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