So here it is Monday again and it is time for our Old Joke Quiz. What? Wednesday? Well, yes, I know that, but I didn’t want to break with tradition. Anyway, the old jokes are two days older now, so you’re getting your money’s worth. This week, we return to fine traditional gagsContinue reading “Junior Comedy”
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Leisure Pleasure
So we arrive, once again, at Monday. If you did not spend your weekend at the Newberry Library Book Fair, well, you missed it. It was a post-pandemic affair, a bit watered-down from previous concoctions, but there were still books for sale at popular prices. If you were unable to tear yourself away forContinue reading “Leisure Pleasure”
More Yocks of Yore
As we near the end of the chapters in my old joke quizbook, the offerings become more miscellaneous, but I can assure you that the quality of the gags themselves will not diminish for being less organized. (I heard that, you in the back. For that, you can stay after class and watch recordingsContinue reading “More Yocks of Yore”
Your Granddad’s Dad Jokes
I hope you did not fear, when this blog took the holiday off last week, that we were out of old jokes. We have not yet reached that catastrophe. We have a few tales of other people’s catastrophes to try out on you first. As always, in case you catastrophically cannot remember the punchlineContinue reading “Your Granddad’s Dad Jokes”
The Best Medicine
And here we are at the last Monday in the first half of the year. We can look over the months of January through June and consider the joys of six more months of the joys of….okay, be that way. Maybe I should have waited for the last Tuesday of June. In anyContinue reading “The Best Medicine”
Office Supply
Here it is Monday, and I’m thinking of Tuesdays. For reasons I could no doubt Google but would prefer to make up myself, Tuesdays are the traditional days for elections. Many states are holding their primaries this month, a secondary sort of election. All of which makes a convenient lead-up to today’s Old JokeContinue reading “Office Supply”
Children’s Corner
We gave you a Monday off for Memorial Day, which we hope you enjoyed traditionally, at the graveyard and the grill. But now we must get back to excerpts from this Old Joke Quiz Book, in which you supply the punchlines to these vintage japes. We are starting to run out of the originalContinue reading “Children’s Corner”
Eyes On Your Own Paper
Hello and welcome to Monday Morning again. I assume, even in this bizarre decade of this wild new century that there are still a few million people for whom Monday is about to make a major shift. For it is May, and people are reaching the end of a school year. In recognition ofContinue reading “Eyes On Your Own Paper”
Matrimonday
Ah, a Monday in the middle of May: what could be more…alliterative. (Okay, a Saturday in the center of September. WILL you stop footnoting my introductions?) What subject would be more suitable for the latest Old Joke Quiz than Marriage? (You’d prefer Sex on a Saturday in the Center of September? Well, so wouldContinue reading “Matrimonday”
On the Road Some More
A recent expert on the subject discussed the use of postcards by our ancestors as documentary proof of travel. Your postcard of Dundee, Iowa, postmarked in Dundee, showed you had actually visited that metropolis. It was a signal to your relatives of your rich experience. I hope that doesn’t make you think I’veContinue reading “On the Road Some More”