'Dya-think-he-saurus'?!

aaaah...hot sake in a jar...bliss. now, something i didnt know until this night was that the japanese dont tell jokes, they dont actually have jokes...seriously...we found this out the hard way by telling tomomi a few of our best jokes (i use the term 'best' loosely). we started off on a basic level of 'what do you call a dinosaur with no eyes?' answer: 'dya-think-he-saurus' so gareth told tomomi this, and she replied. 'oh, what do they eat'?? after we tried explaining it further, she nodded and smiled and said innocently 'oh...ok' obviosuly not getting it, we tried to explain further, it was only after a while that we realised that even the concept of a joke is alien to the japanese, and they take it literally, ie, there literally was a dinosaur with no eyes called a 'dya think he saurus'...we spent the next hour explaining that joke (painfully) and other ones....but to no avail. the japanese just dont tell, or understand the concept of jokes. not tomomis fault at all, just a cultural thing

ps, if its any consolation tomomi...i dont understand ANY of gareths jokes...and thats not a cultural anomaly