Alex Massie Alex Massie

It’s all in the way you tell them…

According to the Adam Smith Institute’s blog, this was recently voted the funniest joke in Belgium:

Why do ducks have webbed feet? To stamp out fires. Why do elephants have flat feet? To stamp out burning ducks.

Who says foreigners aren’t funny?

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