No. 27 on the list of most-read posts on this blog appeared on January 14, 2006, and linked to this hilarious joke. Its popularity was measured by the number of visits to the post in the last half of 2007. The original post is reprinted here in its entirety—just follow the link below to read the joke.

If you are like me, then you like jokes. Jokes often take a group of people and poke fun at them for appearing to be stupid. For some reason, jokes about "dumb blonds" seem to be among the funniest jokes of all.

If you want to find the funniest blond joke the world has ever seen, CLICK HERE!

We had a lot of fun with our American visitors over the weekend. Some of my kids and I went to London with them on Saturday. We visited St Paul's, the Westminster area, and the Tower of London, which we reached by boat. It was a great day, whose highlight for me was surely the following quotes:

Tamasin—"Why did you come all the way from America to look at all these dead people when there are plenty of living ones in our country as well?"

Henry—"That statue over there is supposed to be an angel! More like a demon, showing off its breasts like that. Disgusting!"

Tamasin and Henry of Darwin's tomb—"What's he doing in a church? Surely he's not welcome here?!?"

Charis—My legs are all shaky (after climbing up then down St. Paul's 400+ stairs).

The British and the Americans are at war once again. This time it is a more localized conflict than the War for Independence which, for a nation who has a history of over 1000 years, is really just yesterday. Fortunately the weapons of this latest war are words, although these are, of course, more deadly than nuclear bombs. (Proverbs 18:21)

We have American visitors at the moment. My kids are confused. They can't understand why a room that has a toilet and no bed or bath gets called a restroom or bathroom. But that is nothing compared to what I have just discovered. I mean, an innocent conversation about a lorry overturning on a motorway/highway met with blank looks from my friends. So I tried calling it an articulated lorry, an HGV (heavy goods vehicle), even the odd-sounding word "motor truck" (on Google's recommendation), and, of course, my favorite description of this type of vehicle—the juggernaut. None of this helped AT ALL. The blank looks continued.

The only way we could communicate was for me to say—'OK, so you are at Walmart. A vehicle arrives to deliver goods for them to sell. What do you call it?'

The astonishing answer given by these two otherwise sane American girls (who are, incidentally, Christians of marriageable age and available—apply by e-mail to me for prescreening!) was "A TRACTOR-TRAILER!"

My wife and I are not just laughing out loud (LOL) or ROFL, we are CRYING! To me a tractor is a farm vehicle which tows plows, or yes, a farm trailer! Since when does an all-terrain farm vehicle have eighteen wheels?! Wikki is very clear in its definition of a tractor, and it sure isn't something you would see very often on the roads.

Please, please, please, somebody help us! Give us a sensible name for the vehicle we have agreed to call (in the meantime) a big vehicle that is liable to jack-knife at midnight when the Warnocks are on their way home from holiday!

UPDATE
In January of 2008, the following post was identified as the 27th most-read post on this blog. The 28th most-read post was "Who is Adrian Warnock?"

The ranking for this page, which links to this hilarious joke, was obtained by measuring the number of visits made to the post in the last half of 2007. Follow the link to read the joke.

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If you are like me, then you like jokes. Jokes often take a group of people and poke fun at them for appearing to be stupid. For some reason, jokes about "dumb blonds" seem to be among the funniest jokes of all.

If you want to find the funniest blond joke the world has ever seen, CLICK HERE!