At my age I can only offer boobs

[arsenal]

Yes Paborn. Me too now. Haha.

[scottish-guy]

A valid point. I googled "bridie" and got caught up in such information as some use flaky pastry and some use short dough. Evaluations of how comparable they are to Cornish pasties or even Spanish Pastelles; all mixed in with one vent for plain and two vents if made qwith onions.

I quite forgot that I was trying to understand a joke. I got terribly hungry though.

Congratulations on making the effort Paborn, but, as another contributor correctly pointed out, once a joke has to be explained it ceases to be funny.

Maybe I'll try sending you a glossary of terms, BEFORE the joke next time

Meanwhile I can put your mind at rest - this is my own explnation, not from the internet:

A Scottish "Bridie" is a savoury meat pasty with a flaky pastry "case". The "meat" is traditionally mutton and onion - no vegetable. The most famous incarnation of it is from the town of Forfar. It is basically (almost) flat and semi-circular in shape.

A Cornish pasty on the other hand is a non-flaky savoury pasty containing meat and assorted vegetable such as potato. It's almost torpedo shaped and crimped closed at the top

Of course there will be variations of each, but essentially those are the differences as I've experienced them

[paborn]

Yes, I got all that from google, just shortened it. Oddly, I still don't get the joke. But, there is a lot of fun in trying!

[gerefan2]

A Scottish "Bridie" is a savoury meat pasty with a flaky pastry "case". The "meat" is traditionally mutton and onion - no vegetable. The most famous incarnation of it is from the town of Forfar. It is basically (almost) flat and semi-circular in shape.

A Cornish pasty on the other hand is a non-flaky savoury pasty containing meat and assorted vegetable such as potato. It's almost torpedo shaped and crimped closed at the top

The Meatloaf crew would spend hours (no weeks) discussing this...

[Jellybean]

Doctor, Doctor - you’ll have to help me-
Yes whats the problem?
It’s my wife
What about her?
Well she’s gone off her rocker - she thinks she’s a savoury pasty and last night i came home and she’d had her head stuck
in the gas oven for 15 mins at regulo 4
My God this is serious - I’ll make a note on her records - whats her name?
Bridie

Well, I thought it was funny, but I'm sure I first heard the joke when I was schoolboy.

I have highlighted two of the most important parts, paborn. The joke is that a bridie is, as scottish-guy says, a "savoury meat pasty" but Bridie is also a Christian name.

[paborn]

Thank you! That's what I was missing - it's a Christian name as well; I had no idea.

[Nirish guy]

Excuse me - I can here specifically looking and expecting to find detailed information on BOOBS and now I'm reading posts about jokes and bloody cornish pasties !!!

My god the moderation on this site is getting SO lax !!! :-)))

he he

[frequent]

Isn't calling first names "Christian Names" somewhat politically incorrect, especially as most of the boys whose company we keep are, at least nominally, Buddhist or Moslem? A Scot of course is most likely Calvinist, which doesn't really count as Christian in my book

[Smiles]

I don’t expect anybody non-Scottish to get that last one

I just hope and pray it IS the last one. I normally enjoy British/Scottish/Welsh/Irish kind of humour, in dribs and drams, but this board is fast becoming riddled with it . . . for "thems" only.
Where's King George (The Nutter) when one needs one?

[scottish-guy]

You know Smiles, some people would regard it as a good thing that 3 or 4 of us on this board feel sufficiently at home and relaxed with each other that we can play ping pong with some (pretty bad) jokes - which nobody else is forced to read or comment on (especially within a thread which had no serious content in the first place).

Only on a Gay message board populated by miserable old scrotes would that be regarded as a 'bad thing'

May I ask what level of academic discourse you expected when you visited a thread entitled "At my age I can only offer boobs", and how disappointed were you on a scale of 1-10 that you did not find it?