Have punchline,need joke

[Mike Kolesnik]

The punchline is. "I don't know his name, but his face rings a bell"
The joke was about a deformed man who rang a church bell with his
face. There was also a reference to his brother in this version so it
actually had two punchlines.

If anybody knows it, post it here!

[CO...@maine.maine.edu]

In article <413b4f$h...@news2.getnet.com>, kole...@gn2.getnet.com (Mike

Aha... I've heard this one... but I don't remember the part about his brother.
(Actually, I remember reading it, but I don't remember the punchline.) Here's
what I remember:

After the person who always rang the church bell retired, the minister
put an ad in the paper for a new bell-ringer. The only person who responded
hacd a good resume, but the minister was surprised that he had no arms. He
asked how he was going to ring the bell. The armless man climbed the bell
tower and hit the bell with his head, ringing it perfectly. The minister
was amazed and hired him. One day, the man tried to ring the bell as usual,
but lost his balance and fell out of the bell tower. He was killed. When
his body was taken away, the police asked the minister who he was. The minister
responded, "I don't know his name, but his face rings a bell!"

[Christopher Wooff]

Here's the way the joke goes (more or less): There's this guy named Karl Schmidt [I just made up that name] who was an orphan. When he was very young, he was dropped off on the steps of a monastery. The monks took pity on him, and they brought him up. His job at the monastery was to ring the bell. However, he was a little strange, and he would ring the bell by running up and ramming it with his face! One day, a Karl was nosing around the abbey, and he found a slip of paper that was left with him when he was dropped off as a child. It said that it was his uncle who dropped him off. He got very excited thinking that he might actually still have family, so he told the Father Superior that he was going to leave the monastery to look for his uncle Fritz. The Father Superior gave him his blessing, and off Karl went. [NOTE: when I heard this joke, there was an immensely long, goofy story about Karl's journey to practically every corner of the world looking for his uncle; stuff like roller skating across Louisiana, mushing huskies across Alaska, paddling a canoe across the Pacific ocean, hijacking a train in Mongolia, etc. If you want to be cruel to your friends, make this part extremely long and pointless, always being careful to make it look like it actually does have a purpose. If not, just say "he travelled for a long time" Years passed, and Karl finally added up enough clues that he thought he knew where his uncle lived. He went up to the house and he knocked on the door. A man opened the door and looked at Karl with growing recognition. Karl said, "Uncle Fritz? Do you remember me? It's me! Little Karl!". Uncle Fritz looked at Karl and said "I don't remember the name, but your face rings a bell!" [groan #1] They were both very happy and they talked for a long time. After a while, Uncle Fritz said "Oh Karl! I never thought I'd see you again! I have to tell you, you have a brother! He found out about you 2 years ago, and he set out to look for the monastery where I left you!" Karl got very excited, and he decided to return to the monastery to see if he could find his brother. [Another pointless journey follows; maybe even the same one in reverse.] Finally, Karl was walking back along the road to the abbey when he caught up to one of the monks he knew from before heading the same way. Excitedly, the monk told him that indeed his brother had arrived at the monastery looking for him, and that he was still there! He arrived just a week after Karl left, and they gave him Karl's job to have until Karl returned to the abbey. Karl started running down the road, eager to see his brother Hans. When he got the monastery, he looked up at the bell tower, and there he saw the person who must be his brother getting ready to ring the noon-time bell! He yelled "Hey! Hans! It's me, your brother Karl!" Hans turned to look at Karl in mid-run, and he was so preoccupied that he missed the bell and ran clear off the roof. By the time Karl got to Hans' body, Hans had died. In his grief, he turned over the corpse, and-surprise, surprise-Hans was a dead ringer for his brother! [groan #2] There are many variations on this joke, I'm sure. Chris Wooff

[John Kilcline]

In article <95231.19...@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>, CO...@MAINE.MAINE.EDU says...
If you know the story of Quasimodo then you got the story!

[sat...@inferno.com]

CO>In article <413b4f$h...@news2.getnet.com>, kole...@gn2.getnet.com (Mike
CO>Kolesnik) says:
CO>>
CO>>The punchline is. "I don't know his name, but his face rings a bell"
CO>>The joke was about a deformed man who rang a church bell with his
CO>>face. There was also a reference to his brother in this version so it
CO>>actually had two punchlines.
CO>>
CO>>If anybody knows it, post it here!
CO>>

CO>Aha... I've heard this one... but I don't remember the part about his brothe
CO>(Actually, I remember reading it, but I don't remember the punchline.) Here'
CO>what I remember:

CO>After the person who always rang the church bell retired, the minister
CO>put an ad in the paper for a new bell-ringer. The only person who responded
CO>hacd a good resume, but the minister was surprised that he had no arms. He
CO>asked how he was going to ring the bell. The armless man climbed the bell
CO>tower and hit the bell with his head, ringing it perfectly. The minister
CO>was amazed and hired him. One day, the man tried to ring the bell as usual,
CO>but lost his balance and fell out of the bell tower. He was killed. When
CO>his body was taken away, the police asked the minister who he was. The
CO>minister
CO>responded, "I don't know his name, but his face rings a bell!"

The joke continues when the guy's brother shows up the next day to apply
for his job. He also has no arms. He gets the job, rings the bell, falls
to his death. Somebody asks the minister if he knows who he was. The
minister says `I don't know his name, but he sure is a dead ringer for
his brother.'

[Tye Leslie Sanders]

kole...@gn2.getnet.com (Mike Kolesnik) writes:

>The punchline is. "I don't know his name, but his face rings a bell"

>The joke was about a deformed man who rang a church bell with his

>face. There was also a reference to his brother in this version so it

>actually had two punchlines.

>If anybody knows it, post it here!

The version I heard goes like this:

The hunchback of Notre Dame decided it was time to take a holiday for a
couple of weeks. The Padre of the church had to get a replacement in so
he put an ad in the local paper.

The next day two men fronted for the job. They were identical twins
except for one difference - one of them had no arms.

The brother with the arms said "I shall be happy to ring the bell for
you, Padre. I need the money to help support my poor armless brother."

"Well, let's see you ring that bell." said the Padre.

The man grabbed the rope and pulled and the bell rang with a beautiful
tone and echoed all over the countryside.

"Perfect." said the Padre. "You have the job."

The man was so happy he hugged his brother and started jumping around the
floor, but got too close to an open window and fell out three floors to
the ground below.

"Oh, no!" said the Padre. "What do we do now?"

"No problem," said the armless brother. "I'll ring the bell."

"How do you propose to ring that bell with no arms?"

The brother took the stairs to the next landing where the bell was
housed. He walked to the end of the room and ran as fast as he could
toward the bell and jumped into it hitting it with his face. The bell
once again toned and echoed all over the countryside. Unfortunately, the
man bounced off the bell through the open window and landed in the
grounds next to his brother.

The Padre decided to call the police. The police sergeant arrived and
examined the bodies on the ground. Looking at the brother with arms he
said to the Padre "This one's dead." Checking the armless brother he said
"This one's alive. Can you identify him?"

"I don't know his name but his face sure rings a bell."

"Well, who's the other guy?"

"I don't know him either, but he's a dead ringer for his brother."

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[Alex Deacon]

In <413b4f$h...@news2.getnet.com> kole...@gn2.getnet.com (Mike Kolesnik)
wrote:-
: The punchline is. "I don't know his name, but his face rings a bell"

: The joke was about a deformed man who rang a church bell with his
: face. There was also a reference to his brother in this version so it
: actually had two punchlines.

[SNIP]

Well mate it kinda goes like this:-
The Hunchback of Notre Dame had a visit from his brother one day, just as
he was ringing the bells of the cathedral (which he did with his face)
His brother asked if he too could try this bizarre activity
Being a forgetful old fuckwit Quazimodo (el hunchbacko), forgot the
danger this posed to his bro. he showed him what to do.
On his very first try the bell sent Quazi's brother to his death on the
street below.
When a man from the quickly gathering crowd shouted up and asked Quazi if
he new who the dead man was, Quazi replied:-

"I don't know his name, but his face rings a bell"

As for the other punchline you mention bud, never heard of it

Big AL

[Stuart A. Bronstein]

Alex Deacon (R23...@waccvm.corp.mot.com) wrote:
: In <413b4f$h...@news2.getnet.com> kole...@gn2.getnet.com (Mike Kolesnik)
: wrote:-

: The Hunchback of Notre Dame had a visit from his brother one day, just as

: he was ringing the bells of the cathedral (which he did with his face)
: His brother asked if he too could try this bizarre activity
: Being a forgetful old fuckwit Quazimodo (el hunchbacko), forgot the
: danger this posed to his bro. he showed him what to do.
: On his very first try the bell sent Quazi's brother to his death on the
: street below.
: When a man from the quickly gathering crowd shouted up and asked Quazi if
: he new who the dead man was, Quazi replied:-
: "I don't know his name, but his face rings a bell"

When queried, the Notra Dame night watchman replied, "I don't know his
name, but he's a dead ringer for his brother."

Stu

[inst...@insync.net]

Actually, it goes something like (fill in details as necessary):

Boy with no arms gets job ringing bell at a church, by hitting head against bell.
Boy falls to his death one day while attempting to ring bell.
Passerby says "Didn't know him, but his face rings a bell..."

Boy's brother wishes to ring the church bell at the funeral as a token of respect.
Boy's brother also falls to his death.
Passerby says "Don't know his name, but he's a dead ringer for his brother"

[Beth Montgomery]

In article 6...@wumpus.cc.uow.edu.au, nj...@uow.edu.au (Hairy Little Frog) writes:
->kole...@gn2.getnet.com (Mike Kolesnik) writes:
->
->
->there was a position vacant at Notre Dame for a bell ringer, and
->Quasimodo's brother applied for the job, and was duly awarded the position.
->Now this guy was a bit stupid, and couldn't get tha hang of the bell
->ropes, so he would go up to that bit of the church where the bells live,
->take a nice big run up and slam his face into the bell, creating a
->pleasant ringing tone. However, one day as he was taking his usual run
->up, he tripped over a cabbage and fell out of the window, tumbling many
->stories to the pavement outside. Pretty soon a crowd of onlookers had
->gathered, and someone said 'Who is this poor guy?' and another bloke says
->'I wouldn't have a clue, but his face rings a bell'
->:)

Ahh, but you've left out the second half of the joke...

continuing the above thread:

The next day a man showed up at Notre Dame and, claiming to be the (other?) brother
of the recently deceased bell-ringer, requested to be allowed to ring the bell in
his brother's memory. Permission was granted, and the man proceeded to the
bell tower and began ringing the bell in the same unconventional fashion...with his
face. Apparently the aforementioned cabbage hadn't been removed and, as fate
would have it, the brother also tripped over the vegetable, falling out the window
to his death. The onlookers shook their heads at the tragedy, and one person asked,
"What was this fellow's name?" Another answered, "I don't know, but he's sure a
dead ringer for his brother."

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email: Beth.Mo...@analog.com
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[Don Erwin]

kole...@gn2.getnet.com (Mike Kolesnik) wrote:
>The punchline is. "I don't know his name, but his face rings a bell"

>The joke was about a deformed man who rang a church bell with his
>face. There was also a reference to his brother in this version so it
>actually had two punchlines.
>

>If anybody knows it, post it here!
>

I don't know the joke, but I think the punch line for the brother was
that he fell out of the tower or something and that he was a dead ringer
for his brother...

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