One of the things I like about my friends, is they are from all over the place. One of my closest buddies is English. Born, raised and lives just outside of London in a small village. in his Emails, he often gives me a glimpse of ordinary life over across the pond.

So he had to go to the Pharmacy (which they call "Chemist") and shared that experience. And then he told me an old Show business Joke, that English folks love. I thought it was funny myself. So here is that part of Steve's email:

"....Which brings me to a very English thing that happened in the queue at the chemists .
There were about six people in the queue and it was going quite slowly and the chemist called a woman’s name a few times to collect her prescription but no one answered ,
And the guy in front of me said
“She probably died waiting. “
And the funny thing was I was thinking just that when he said it .

I thought at the time how English that was .

Here’s an example of an English showbiz joke that makes Brits laugh but other nationalities just stare at you .
It’s actually one of my favourite showbiz jokes .

So here goes ,

A mildly famous actor gets a call from the local village council saying they’d just seen him on tv and that they’d love him to take part in their charity marathon .
Being a rather large chap he questioned whether they’d seen him as there was no way he could run a marathon ,
But they said it’ll be fine as it’s only a half marathon,
So he said ok well who’s it for and they said , it’s for blind and handicapped kids ,
And the actor thought: "Ooooh... I could win this!"