Alrighty then.
I feel like when you're on a first date and you don't know what else to say and there is this awkward silence. Ever since I can remember I have used, what I'd like to think of as humor, to break things up. Seems to work in a lot of situations. You know, sensitive meetings, elevators, times when I'm feeling crabby, or funerals.
My favorite are what most people call "dumb jokes". Around my office they have become known as "Jill Jokes". (I haven't been able to figure out why though). Ok, so it doesn't contain fowl language, but these are far from dumb.
For example let's look at a chemistry joke: One sodium atom says "Oh no! I think I lost an electron", another atom asks "Are you sure?"
"Yeah!" the other atom says. "I'm positive."
Or my favorite, bar jokes: A grasshopper walks into a bar and the bartender looks at him and says "Hey I have a drink named after you!" and the grasshopper replies "You have a drink named Steve?!!"
There. Aren't you feeling better already? Way more fun to laugh than be crabby, right?
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I've got a terrible one for you: What's brown and sticky?
Well, I'll tell you. A stick.
Unfortunately, the blog can't relay Jill's delight in making her Coworkers groan--her eyes twinkle when she is telling her jokes. Jill's jokes remind me of the one-liners that the late Henny Youngman used to throw out, although Jill is a lot more attractive. Here are a few of Henny's jokes:
Waiter! Waiter! What's this fly doing in my soup? The backstroke.
Take my wife, please!
How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice.
I just flew in from the coast and boy are my arms tired!
Okay Jill, I suppose you have all new material for the ten o'clock show.
Brian
Jill, you MUST have been at the wine tasting with Richard when you wrote this. To your credit, you did warn us by saying these are Bar jokes :-)
*Fowl* language? A little poultry humor? LOL. Sorry, just the Journalism major in me,
begging to get back out.
Think I heard both of those cornball Jill jokes about ten years ago -- er, was it really fifteen?
Thanks for the memories... ;)
CZ
Jill,
Hehehe .... Two fishermen were fishing a river from the bank. Wanting to cross to fish the other bank, they looked up and saw a Blonde on the far side of the river. One man hollered across, "How do we get to the other side?"
To which she replied, "You're on the other side!"
StakesAlive325
... And one of my favorite Henny Youngman "liners" ....
My wife thought we should get a dog for the kids. I thought it was a good trade.
StakesAlive525
Here's 1 or 2 4 u:
How do u catch a unique rabbit?
U neak up on him
How do u catch a tame rabbit?
Tame way, u neak up on him
I get people rolling their eyes on those--but deep inside I know they r laughing-- they walk away saying 'neak up on him- how corny''
i have been laughing so hard at these jokes. i don't know why, but they made me laugh and laugh. u neak. LOL
I always enjoy, and usally invoke, the use of humor in most situations! I hope that Southwest never loses it's great corporte sense of humor. Here are a few more for your repetoire:
What do you call a cow with no legs? ... Ground Beef
What do you call a cow with only 2 legs? ... Lean Beef.
What do you call a cow that has just given birth? ... de-calf-inated
You may now grin and groan ;-)
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