Here it is, the first Monday of Spring, a season of newness: new leaves, new baby animals, new flowers. BUT it is universally regarded as a spirit of rebirth: those new buds are on old trees which have seemed dead over the winter, and those old lawns are born again and will need mowingContinue reading “Lime + Coconut”
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Cabbage Collection
The city where I live does not want to let St. Patrick’s Day go by unobserved. It has been the custom, even in the depths of the pandemic, when the holiday falls in the middle of the week, to observe two St. Patrick’s Day weekends. In addition, there are plenty of people who addContinue reading “Cabbage Collection”
Zap: Snap!
Today is, of course, National Pie Day, but since, as mentioned hereintofore, this is NOT a food blog, I shall save the dissertation on my mother’s pie recipes for another day. Anyhow, Monday is Old Joke Quiz Day around here. So here is a collection of tart remarks (catch that one, did you? Continue reading “Zap: Snap!”
What’s the Story, Morning Glory?
In my pursuit of archaic humor, I rely, as any detective would, on a combination of information and deduction. I have learned, when a caption aooears on postcards by different artists, to check the world of advertising or the realm of pop song. This has led me to a greater familiarity of the recordingsContinue reading “What’s the Story, Morning Glory?”
Back to the Cornfield
Ah, here comes Monday once again, the day when people wake with foreboding to face the daily commute on a crowded thoroughfare or smelly train to get to the office. Don’t you wish you could drop it all and set up shop in rural America, where a person can WALK to the office (throughContinue reading “Back to the Cornfield”
Doctor, Doctor
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”
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”
The Course of True Love
Well, here it is Monday again, and do you know what it’s time for, Chocolate Lasagna? No, not getting to sit next to that lady with the mask-dislodging sneeze on your commute. It’s time for another installment of our old joke quiz. You say you prefer the lady with the sneeze? Well, there’sContinue reading “The Course of True Love”
Class Act
Ah, ‘tis Monday, our weekly Old Joke Day. Fear not: some day I will run out of the jokes from this joke quizbook I wrote in the 1990s, and will have to find something else to do. (And reflect that if some enterprising publisher had actually published this book in the 1990s, you wouldContinue reading “Class Act”
Interpreting Artifacts
It has been a while since we delved into the archaeology of humor as reflected in postcard art of the past (as opposed to our rather shallow digs every Monday.) More postcards come in all the time, and some of the jokes are moderately obscure unless you’re old enough, or are thoroughly obscure despiteContinue reading “Interpreting Artifacts”
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