Funny quote when I signed into my hosted webspace....

16 July 2007 - Permanent link - Categories: daily life

Q: What do you call the money you pay to the government when you ride into the country on the back of an elephant?

A: A howdah duty.

I was impressed -- the interlanguage (and intercultural; "howdy doody" is moderately obscure, no?) pun is pretty sophisticated.