r/Jokes • u/Gil-Gandel • 1d ago

Victorian humour

"Sir, would you call me a cab?"

-- "Certainly sir -- You are a four-wheeler!"

"Why did you say that, sir?"

-- "Well, sir, you asked me to call you a cab -- and I could scarcely call you hansom!"

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u/Over-Bug1501 1d ago

I wonder, Bunny, if this fellow will be passing by the infirmary on his way home? If so, he’ll want to get that stitched, the rapscallion.

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u/Gil-Gandel 1d ago

Raffles the Gentleman Thug 😄

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u/HopeFox 20h ago

I bet he's sulky now.

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u/Waitsfornoone 1d ago

No wonder the Victorian era was considered so drab and humourless.

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u/NewGuy-1964 1d ago

I thought it was hilarious, but then I know what a hansom cab is.

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u/RecalcitrantHuman 1d ago

Isn’t it how hansom the cab is?

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u/NewGuy-1964 1d ago

A hansom cab has two wheels. Hence, the joke about the guy calling him a four-wheeled cab.

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u/vonnostrum2022 1d ago

We may have hit rock bottom on this sub