Jokes
Posted in Pop Culture by Peter W. Schramm
I'm reading into
Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokesand I have been amused for at least ten minutes. I was reminded of Ronald Reagan's definition of liberalism:"If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it." Or this, about West Virginia: "What do a hurricane and a divorce in West Virginia have in common? Somebody's gonna lose a trailer." There are more, but I practice self control. OK, maybe not; just one more: "A woman gets into a cab and says, where can I get scrod? The cabbie says, Gee, I've never heard it put in the pluperfect subjunctive before!"
10:54 AM / February 3, 2010
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When a Unitarian is angry at you he burns a question mark on your lawn.
UU bumper sticker: Nuclear war would be the end of brunch as we know it.
Those are actually pretty good (with the exception of the Reagan one, of course).
Steve - What am I missing with the 2nd UU joke?
A kind of lifestyle producing a lack of a sense of proportion. Some versions use geography: bumper sticker seen in Sausalito. . .
Somebody once wrote up a great list of provincial newspaper headlines for a nuclear war:
Washington Post: "Republicans' Triumph Short-Lived as World Ends"
New York Times: "Turmoil in Middle East as World Ends"
Boston Globe: "Hub Man Dies in Nuclear Holocaust"
San Francisco Chronicle: "Bay Area Lifestyles Decline as World Ends"
USA Today: "We're Dead"