Today, we find ourselves in the doctor’s waiting room, waiting for a laugh. Ah, for the pre-pandemic days, when the waiting room might be filled with Reader’s Digest, Highlights for Children, and Boys’ Life, all magazines which included joke columns, helping to preserve the traditional gags of our nation! Now we must rely onContinue reading “Doctor, Doctor”
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Number One Column
There has been absolutely no call for equal time, but we did commit a modest oversight a few months back with a series of columns on what dogs do, and what babies do. Although there was a brief examination of the possibility that cats also did such things, we may have given you theContinue reading “Number One Column”
Drawers’ Choice
Once upon a time, mackerel jellybeans, one had to be so careful what one said. Every word had to be measured before uttered, lest it cause offense. And there were people on the alert for these offenses, so they could point them out to you and cry out to the world that you wereContinue reading “Drawers’ Choice”
Show Me the Funny
And here we are on President’s Day, a holiday observed primarily by government employees and mattress sales. There are, of course, a number of holidays waiting for us: St. Patrick’s Day, Easter (cue the Cadbury Bunny commercial), the Vernal Equinox, but the most advertised holiday of all is coming in the middle of April.Continue reading “Show Me the Funny”
Vintage Whine
I have called sending postcards the equivalent of texting or tweeting a century past. (The very mention of texting and tweeting makes me seem a century old to numerous people who moved past those things ten years ago, but I can’t see a lot of them reading my blog.) You could use a postcardContinue reading “Vintage Whine”
Hearts On the Plains
The romance of the Old West was established well before the West had gotten that old. Bill Nye, writing for the Boomerang in Cheyenne in the 1880s, liked to point out the difference between the West as it was lived and the West as people in the East liked to think of it. TheContinue reading “Hearts On the Plains”
All Rise
I know it is Valentine’s Day, and I know that half of you had a really good Super Sunday (while the other half of you ran out of spinach dip in the third quarter.) But it is Monday, and once again time for our Old Joke Quiz. (Look at it this way: how willContinue reading “All Rise”
Benched
We have, as the jewelry ads on television keep reminding us, coming up on Valentine’s Day. (The amount of chocolate in the stores should have tipped you off if you just don’t watch television these days.) As valentine’s Day itself is a Monday this year, which is my old joke blog day, I thoughtContinue reading “Benched”
No Typo, Just a Braino
Once upon a time, communication was heavily based on print: things you had to read. Yes, you must be able to read things posted on social media (except for those high-tech people who post only video.) But back in those elder days, things which had been printed were fixed on a page with ink. Continue reading “No Typo, Just a Braino”
To Have and to Hold, To Gripe and to Scold
What, is it Monday again already? Well, you should have recovered from all the fried food we were discussing last week and be ready to tackle another onslaught of old jokes. This week we go back into the chapter of jokes dealing with husbands and wives. For those of you who have wondered toContinue reading “To Have and to Hold, To Gripe and to Scold”
Blogsy Babbles 