As the band started to play at an embassy function, a drunken politician asked: "Beautiful lady in red, will you waltz with me?" "Certainly not," came the reply. "First, you are drunk. Second, it is not a waltz but the Venezuelan national anthem. And third, I am not a beautiful lady in red, but the papal nuncio." A woman was having a new kitchen fitted, so she rang the council and said: "Can I have a skip outside my house?" The guy from the council said: "You can cartwheel around the block for all I care!"