Nicosia priority lane system: I’ve heard better jokes

Whilst browsing through last week’s papers I nearly fell off my chair when reading that Nicosia were going to introduce a priority lane system.

I thought it was a new item called ‘joke of the week’. First of all, this idea is 20 years behind the rest of the world. I would like to know if the people who are going to enforce this new initiative are the same people who enforce traffic light violations, parking on footpaths and yellow lines, non-wearing of crash helmets, seat belts, dog licences, road tax and hose pipe bans, to name a few.

Better jokes to amuse readers:

1. I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day but couldn’t find any…

2. There were two fish in a tank and one says to the other: “You drive, I’ll man the guns.”
You can decide which is the best.

Ian Stewart
Oroklini, Larnaca

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