BELO HORIZONTE: What’s the difference between a tea bag and the England football team? The tea bag stays in a cup longer!
Heard what Spain’s coach Vicente Del Bosque said to his charges after two shock losses? “Don’t worry, we still have options: aisle or window seats.”
With the World Cup entering its final stages, the jokes are flying as fast as goals, helping relieve tension and – for fans of the 24 teams already out – the abject misery of elimination.
Naturally, the tournament’s main talking point – Uruguay striker Luis Suarez’s ban for biting – has spawned a vast array of doctored images depicting him variously wearing a Dracula outfit or a Hannibal Lecter mask.
Tourists in Rio de Janeiro queued up to place their necks or arms inside his open mouth on a larger-than-life Adidas ad photo of Suarez’s head. Adidas, perhaps embarrassed by negative associations round an ad made before the incident, took it down.
Some jokes backfire.
After the Netherlands eliminated Mexico, a politically incorrect KLM airline Tweet read “Adios Amigos” with a caricatured photo of a moustachioed Mexican man in a sombrero.
The outrage was swift, bringing a KLM apology and a vow from Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal never to fly with them again. (AP)
