Did I tell you the story about the Irish labourer who was an intellectual and a keen student of literature?

He went for a job on a building site and the foreman told him "I'll have to ask you a question first. Do you know the difference between a girder and a joist?"

Paddy replied.....

"Aw bejabers, dat's an easy one! Goethe wrote Faust and Joyce wrote Ulysses."

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