Oh, let us pause for another collection of old jokes. If I contribute nothing else to twenty-first century society, I will at least have invented a new reason to dread Mondays. This selection from my brilliant but unpublished book So I Bit Him! Deals with jokes about travel. As ever, the punchline has beenContinue reading “On the Road Again”
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Takin’ What They’re Givin’
A number of years ago, in response to no particular demand, I developed a musical lecture on the “I Hate My Job” song, a style of song as basic to the American experience as the hymn. Had I been able to clear all the rights…. But there is a broad literature of peopleContinue reading “Takin’ What They’re Givin’”
Set ‘Em Up Again
I didn’t plan to do this every Monday, but I felt that, having done this together last week, we needed to get back on before we developed a fear of it. This is the second in a series of excerpts from my unpublished bestseller, So I Bit Him!, a book of really, really old jokesContinue reading “Set ‘Em Up Again”
ARCHAEOLOGY OF HUMOR
I have to admit that sometimes I don’t understand every facet of every joke thrown at me by the humorists of the past. I think we can all enjoy the basic humor of this card, for example. Anyone who played on seesaws (teeter-totters, in my neighborhood) knows that joy of breaking the rules andContinue reading “ARCHAEOLOGY OF HUMOR”
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