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forward slash mobile. This is Steve Allen's A Little Bit Extra. Leading Britain's conversation.

You're listening to our podcast of Steve Allen. Morning everybody, welcome along to your free podcast for today. Wednesday the 16th

the March is getting close. It's getting so good. Oh, I hate it. I hate it, honestly.

At St Patrick's Day, although actually, what did I hear the other day? Somebody told me a really

good joke.

I can't remember what it is. It's difficult.

You hear these jokes or somebody will tell you a joke and then you go,

I must repeat that on the programme because it's quite a good one.

And, oh, that's right.

Charles Dickens goes into a pub and gets a martini and the barman says,

Olive or Twist. Okay. Okay. into a pub and gets a martini and the barman says olive or twist okay the Shakespeare one no there's going to be Shakespeare walks into a pub bloke says you're barred oh right that's quite good

isn't that yeah mind you that's the um that's the story of the snail in the pub and it gets uh the barming out

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