“Did you hear about the man who wanted to sound Irish? He decided to go for brogue!”
“Brogue” sounds a little bit like “broke.” A St. Patrick’s Day pun is:
“Did you hear about the man who wanted to sound Irish? He decided to go for brogue!”
The joke has been cited in print since at least 2001.
Kidsjokes.co.uk (June 14, 2001)
St Patricks Day Jokes
Did you hear about the man who wanted to sound Irish?
He decided to go for brogue!
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Did you hear about the man who wanted to sound Irish?
.....He decided to go for brogue!
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Did you hear about the man who wanted to sound Irish?
he decided to go for brogue
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Frank Bunton
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Did you hear about the man who wanted to sound Irish?
He decided to go for brogue!
4:45 AM - 10 Mar 2015
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Frank Illig
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#BadJokeoftheDay: Did you hear about the man who wanted to sound Irish? He decided to go for brogue! {groan}
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Alan S Harrell
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Did you hear about the man who wanted to sound Irish? . . . He decided to go for brogue.
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