# Iceland Volcano Jokes **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 20, 2010, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iceland-volcano-jokes/536784 "2010-04-20T19:45:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iceland-volcano-jokes/536784/1 "2010-04-20T19:45:04Z")
Yup. They’ve started. I said send _cash_!! Iceland’s economic meltdown means when the country died it spread its ashes all over Europe! Your turn. ---
**Author:** ![mutantmoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a87d85/32.png) [@mutantmoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mutantmoose)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iceland-volcano-jokes/536784/2 "2010-04-20T20:45:26Z")
It’s too early for volcano jokes. The dust hasn’t settled yet. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iceland-volcano-jokes/536784/3 "2010-04-20T20:47:20Z")
Someone is going to get upset and blow their top. Iceland-Lava or leave it. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iceland-volcano-jokes/536784/4 "2010-04-20T21:29:20Z")
UKIP and the BNP are disbanding: the Volcano Party’s stopped immigration cold. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iceland-volcano-jokes/536784/5 "2010-04-20T21:31:26Z")
Your mum’s so fat, when she got cremated they had to ban all planes from flying over europe. I liked this one, too. _Went outside today and got hit by a bag of frozen sausages, a chocolate gateau and some fish fingers. Someone said it’s fallout from Iceland._ Hey, no-one said it had to be original content! ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iceland-volcano-jokes/536784/6 "2010-04-20T21:39:20Z")
They would be funnier in Icelandic, what with all the umlauts and stuff. ---
**Author:** ![mutantmoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a87d85/32.png) [@mutantmoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mutantmoose)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iceland-volcano-jokes/536784/7 "2010-04-20T22:00:53Z")
One for the Brits: What’s the difference between the volcano and Cheryl Cole? The volcano is still blowing ash ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iceland-volcano-jokes/536784/8 "2010-04-20T22:34:12Z")
I see that America has declared war on Iceland. Apparently they are accusing them of harboring a “weapon of mass disruption”… First the economy goes under, now Iceland sets itself on fire. I smell an insurance scam! ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iceland-volcano-jokes/536784/9 "2010-04-21T00:26:46Z")
From my son’s Facebook page (not sure if it’s original to him but he can be witty): Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano has erupted, spewing random letters all over northern Europe. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iceland-volcano-jokes/536784/10 "2010-04-21T00:47:12Z")
[dancingbadlyinHawaianshirt] \*Now my girl quickly said to me Man, you’d better watch your feet That lava comes out soft and hot You better lova me now or lova me not Chorus: See I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know where I’m a gonna go When the volcano blow\* Jimmy Buffett– **Volcano** [/dancingbadlyinHawaianshirt] ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iceland-volcano-jokes/536784/11 "2010-04-21T00:53:51Z")
From this forum: > [@The Volcano god is apparently angry - who are we going to sacrifice?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-volcano-god-is-apparently-angry-who-are-we-going-to-sacrifice/536717/53): > > [QUOTE=ShibbOleth] > On the news this morning, then mentioned that further clouds and ash are expected from the volcano whose name cannot be said The volcano is named Voldemort? 😉 [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iceland-volcano-jokes/536784/12 "2010-04-21T01:41:53Z")
Eyjafjallajokull – just like it’s spelled! ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iceland-volcano-jokes/536784/13 "2010-04-21T12:09:16Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > They would be funnier in Icelandic, what with all the umlauts and stuff. You asked for it: ”Fra Island: Leggja 30 milliærðir Euro í Sýppelkassin Íslenska ámbasaðins i nótt og vi skrúr af vulkánin! Ekki ringja pólísín!” > [@kunilou](#): > > Eyjafjallajokull – just like it’s spelled! Do you mean “Eyjafjallajökull”? ---
**Author:** ![ColonelDax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@ColonelDax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColonelDax)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iceland-volcano-jokes/536784/14 "2010-04-21T15:18:12Z")
> [@ivan\_astikov](#): > > _Went outside today and got hit by a bag of frozen sausages, a chocolate gateau and some fish fingers. Someone said it’s fallout from Iceland._ In case any non-Britons are wondering, this joke plays on the fact that the U.K. has a grocery chain called [Iceland](http://www.iceland.co.uk/). ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iceland-volcano-jokes/536784/15 "2010-04-21T16:25:39Z")
> [@Floater](#): > > You asked for it: > > ”Fra Island: Leggja 30 milliærðir Euro í Sýppelkassin Íslenska ámbasaðins i nótt og vi skrúr af vulkánin! Ekki ringja pólísín!” It _is_ funnier! ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iceland-volcano-jokes/536784/16 "2010-04-21T16:30:40Z")
> [@Floater](#): > > Do you mean “Eyjafjallajökull”? Oh no!:eek: I mispelled it??? Umlauts always mess me up. I can’t pronounce that at all.:smack: ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iceland-volcano-jokes/536784/17 "2010-04-21T17:25:56Z")
I just came up with this but it’s so bad I thought I’d give it to you in Google auto-translated Icelandic: _Hvað heldur þú að hringja í íslenska stúlku sem reykir mikið? Aska!_ ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iceland-volcano-jokes/536784/18 "2010-04-23T13:18:44Z")
Saw this one in the news a few days ago, apparently directed at the UK in reference to the cash/referendum/economic situation [Icelandic Mafia] You fuck with Iceland? We shut down your airspace [/Icelandic Mafia] ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iceland-volcano-jokes/536784/19 "2010-04-23T13:25:47Z")
Someone posted this in the “Offendapalooza” thread: What’s the difference between Eyjafjallajökull and Madeleine McCann? Maddie only ruined one holiday. ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iceland-volcano-jokes/536784/20 "2010-04-23T14:10:19Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > I just came up with this but it’s so bad I thought I’d give it to you in Google auto-translated Icelandic: > > _Hvað heldur þú að hringja í íslenska stúlku sem reykir mikið? Aska!_ Sadly, I LOL’ed. A lot. It’s off a little on the vocabulary, but the meaning came across well enough. Personally, my biggest laugh out of all of this has been the Bild newspaper front page: [Das Aschen-Monster](http://flickriver.com/photos/bembel/4528874635/). What a good use of a coincidentally interesting photo. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iceland-volcano-jokes/536784.md?page=2)