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theplutosys t1_ixrqel3 wrote

Reply to comment by v8grunt in A guy with no arms……. (Long) by Objective_Resolve833

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v8grunt t1_ixrsh4p wrote

Guy walking by Natradam Cathedral he looks up after hearing a strange voice shouting down at him.

Qausimodo beckons him up. The guy enters the cathedral and goes up the bell tower where Qausimodo is.

(Qausimodo was played by an old English actor who was hunchbacked and spoke with a speech impediment which when you tell the joke you imitate!)

Qausimodo asks if he wanted to hear the big bell?

Ok says the guy....

Qausimodo runs and hurls himself at the bell clings on to it and when it returns jump off waits for the bell to return and head butts it creating a tremendous clang!

"Again, again says Qausimodo. Ok says the guy.

Qausimodo repeats the above but obviously slightly groggy from the first attempt.

When he jump off he waits for the bell to return,runs and stumbles... And falls down the bell tower landing in a crumpled heap!

The guy runs down and when he gets there a small crowd have already gathered around..

Does anybody know who he is?

The guy holds his hand up and says...

"I don't know him but his face rings a bell"!

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MaraudingAvenger t1_ixs1cjb wrote

Notre Dame... Our Lady in French

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v8grunt t1_ixs1xzb wrote

Sorry. 😢 Didn't think I would have to explain a joke that was originally about the "Hunchback of Notre Dame"...

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anonymity11111 t1_ixtha2u wrote

The way I heard it, you get a second joke in there.

One day Quasimodo asks his boss for a vacation, and the boss says “no no, Quasimodo, you are too important — people come from all over the world to see you ring the bells. If you go on vacation, what will we do? No, the only way I can let you go is if you find someone who looks exactly like you, who can ring the bells while you’re gone. And where will we find anyone who looks like you?”

Well Quasimodo is depressed, and after work that night he goes out drinking in the Latin quarter, and suddenly he sees this guy who looks exactly like him! They could have been twins. So he rushes up to the guy and explains the situation, and begs him to stand in for him as a bell ringer. And the guy says sure, anything for a fellow hunchback. So they go back to Notre Dame, and Quasimodo says “okay, now I just have to show you how I ring the bells.” And they go up to the tower, where there’s this big bell, and Quasimodo says “now watch this.” And he takes one step back. And then two steps back. And then he runs…. jumps… BAM! Smashes his face right into the side of the bell. And it goes BONNNG! And he turns to his double and says “okay, now you try!” So the new guy says “well, all right.” And he takes one step back. And then two steps back. And then he takes a third step back, and he steps right off the edge of the tower and falllls allll the way down to the pavement below and is struck stone dead. Everyone in the street starts screaming, and a policeman comes running, and he sees the body. And he says “does anybody know who this is?” And a bystander says “no, his face doesn’t ring a bell…. [pause for laughter and/or groans] but actually, come to think of it, he’s a dead ringer for Quasimodo!”

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Embarrassed-Donkey42 t1_ixrs1j9 wrote

When my dad first told it the set-up was Quasimodo, who rings the bell with his face, looking for a replacement so he can take a vacation. He finally finds someone who looks exactly like him but they cant ring the bell by running face first into it. The replacement meets a similar fate as the main character in this joke and the Punchline was "His face doesn't ring a bell, but he sure is a dead ringer for Quasimodo"

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