Posted: 25 October 2011 at 10:14am | IP Logged

53,000 Geordies meet in St James Park for a 'Geordies Are Not Stupid' convention.

Alan Shearer addresses the crowd 'We are all here today to prove to the world that Geordies

are not stupid. Can I have a volunteer please?'

Gazza gingerly works his way through the crowd and steps up to the stage.

Shearer asks him 'What is 15 plus 15?'

After 15 or 20 seconds Gazza says, 'Eighteen!'

Obviously everyone is a little disappointed.

Then the Geordies start chanting, 'Give him another chance! Give him another chance!'

Shearer says 'Well since we have a capacity crowd, world-wide press and global broadcast media here,

I think we can give him another chance.

So he asks 'What is 5 plus 5?'

After nearly 30 seconds he eventually says, 'Ninety?'

Shearer looks down and just lets out a dejected sigh.

Everyone is disheartened and Gazza starts crying.

But then the 53,000 Geordies begin to yell and wave their hands shouting, 'GIVE HIM ANOTHER

CHANCE! GIVE HIM ANOTHER CHANCE!'

Shearer, unsure whether he is now doing more harm than good eventually says,

'What is 2 plus 2? 'Silence hangs over the stadium.

Gazza closes his eyes, and after a whole minute eventually says, 'Four?'

Pandemonium breaks out throughout the stadium as the Geordie crowd stand to a man, wave their

arms, stomp their feet and scream

'GIVE HIM ANOTHER CHANCE! GIVE HIM ANOTHER CHANCE!'  

Posted: 25 October 2011 at 4:11pm | IP Logged

As a Geordie myself I have to take issue with this joke.

At best it is regionalist and at worst downright racist.

The joke assumes that all Geordies are thick.

My parents moved us all from Gateshead to Essex when I was 6 for a new life.....so clearly that makes them intelligent!

Posted: 25 October 2011 at 8:21pm | IP Logged

Dom, it is the best and worst of all these things! Never had you down for a Georgie. In ATF we are all one (and I'm sure yu can find some cyclist-ist jokes

P.S. It's about time you started trying to persuade me to come over for the next Kingston gig