Brit Speak: Difference between Fireman and Soldier?

[Sea Change]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "davewitley"
<dfrankiswork at n...> wrote:
> Steve wrote:
> > 
> > > Found this in a list of Kid's jokes at CBBC Newsround-
> > > 
> > > Q: What is the difference between a fireman and a soldier?
> > > 
> > > A: You can't dip a fireman in your egg.
> > > 
> > > Sorry, but I don't get it.
> > > 
> > > How or why CAN you dip a soldier in your egg?
> > > 
> > > It's got to be a British thing.
> 
> Shaun:
> 
> > 'Soldiers' refers to buttered toast cut into strips - and quite 
> > commonly used to dip into a boiled egg.
> 
> Phew!  Well thought of, Shaun!  For a moment there I thought the 
> Americans had rumbled our top-secret projects, to miniaturise the 
> Armed Forces, and to create giant genetically modified eggs, for 
> aiming at the faces of enemy politicians.
> 
> David


Sea Change replies:

Or, perhaps Brits are never so lucky to have a fireman stay around for
breakfast.  Dipping them in egg might be entertaining.