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When in Doubt, Pun

Listen, I know it’s Monday, but even I am appalled by this chapter in my quizbook of old jokes. I had forgotten I had stooped this low. Of course, how old a pun may be is irrelevant, since the audience is SUPPOSED to groan. But if we all stand together and hold hands, we canContinue reading “When in Doubt, Pun”

Round Roast

The whole history of Round People in culture is beyond the scope of this blog. Fashion has been fashion and social life has been social life for eons. For centuries, the poor were thin and the rich were fat, and once over-the-counter medicine became big business, some of the most popular nostrums sold wereContinue reading “Round Roast”

Round and Round

I have nearly as many postcards featuring Round People as I have about fishing, but I took the Thanksgiving weekend off from telling you about them, feeling that none of us would feel like chatting about such things when we were stuffed with stuffing. (Those of you who had tofu and greens probably foundContinue reading “Round and Round”

Wise Guys

So it is the Monday after a four-day weekend, and some of us still imagine the world will go easy on us. To help prepare you for the opposite, this is a chapter from my quiz book of old jokes called “Gotcha”, a series of tales where a wit outwits a halfwit. You mayContinue reading “Wise Guys”

Beach View

It may still weigh on your mind what a huge territory we chose to cover in Friday’s blog, dedicated to postcards which told how a vacation might tend to broaden one’s knowledge, one’s experience, and, especially, one’s waistline. It is such a large field for study that we skipped all the postcards that usedContinue reading “Beach View”

Raspberry Sauce

It is the Monday approaching Thanksgiving, so the old jokes in this quiz have a food theme. These are from my chapter on raspberries: the insults, the slams, the critical responses which are so old that you will certainly not have to look at the answers to know how they come out. If youContinue reading “Raspberry Sauce”

Vacation Coming Round

We have addressed some of the themes which were huge hits in the days when we sent postcards instead of texts: fishing, outhouses, clotheslines, and street sweepers, but we have been ignoring the eight hundred pound….let’s try that over. We have not indicated the fun our ancestors found in Round People, or Fat Folk.Continue reading “Vacation Coming Round”

Burning Issue

How many times am I going to have to remind you that this is NOT a food blog? This is a blog about the world of laughter and imagination, as seen through postcards I’d like to sell so I can go on paying for stuff: a shameless cash grab which never quite gets aroundContinue reading “Burning Issue”

Paws for a Laugh

I think we should be able to return to our regular schedule of blogs. It is Monday again, and that means another exploration of jokes which are considered so elderly that you should be able to come up with the answer in no time at all. This chapter in my original book on theContinue reading “Paws for a Laugh”

One Man’s War

Computer difficulties yesterday kept me out of my picture files, so I could not prepare historical tidbits regarding the images our ancestors mailed to each other. But the blog must go on. So I have torn a piece out of one of my much applauded lecture series. (These are lectures which are applauded becauseContinue reading “One Man’s War”