Who wants to be a millionaire?

Mick got on to the Irish version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire."

Near the end of the programme he had already won half a million and had one last question to answer for the big prize. "You've done very well so far," said the quiz-master, "but you've only got one lifeline left - to phone a friend. Everything is riding on the last question...

will you settle for what you've won or go for double or nothing?"

"To be shure," said Mick, "Oi'll have a go!"

"OK. Which of the following birds does NOT build it's own nest? Your choices are (a) a robin, (b) a sparrow, (c) a cuckoo, and (d) a thrush."

"To be shure, Oi haven't a clue," said Mick. "Oi'll use my last loif loine and phone my mate Paddy back home in Ballygoon."

Mick called up his mate, told him the circumstances, and repeated the question to him. "Bloody hell, Mick!" cried Paddy. "Dat's easy - 'tis de cuckoo."

"Are ye shure, Paddy?" asked Mick.

"Bloody shure Oi'm shure."

Mick hung up the phone and said, "Paddy's a smart feller. I'll go with de cuckoo."

"Is that your final answer?"

"Dat it is, Sorr."

There was a long, long pause, eventually the presenter screamed, "Cuckoo is the correct answer!

Mick, you've won the million!"

The next night, Mick invited Paddy to their local pub for a celebratory drink. "Tell me now, Paddy, how in God's name did ye know dat de cuckoo don't build it's own howse? I mean, you know nothing about birds."

"For heavens sake!" laughed Paddy. "What are ye, daft? Everybody knows a Bloody cuckoo lives in a clock!"

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