Comments on: Funny Bones, 1940

By: JPaul

JPaul — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:45:37 +0000

I don’t think the characterization of Scots as skinflints is blatant racism. I think it’s been pretty much established as proven. In fact my phrenologist told me as much during my last visit.

By: Tatiana

Tatiana — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:45:05 +0000

These are so funny! I love them! You can really tell how society has changed by looking at what people used to find mild and inoffensive, can’t you? Things do change!

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:42:37 +0000

We should give her her only post, Ray! (Only then I suppose somebody would want one to tell BYU Co-ed jokes …)

By: Ray

Ray — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:25:48 +0000

I love these, Ardis. I read them to my wife and oldest daughter (16), and they loved them, also.

From that daughter:

A wise man once said, “I don’t know. Ask a woman.”

What happened to the man-eating tiger that got loose at BYU? It starved to death.

By: Ardis Parshall

Ardis Parshall — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:45:03 +0000

“phrenology rears its head”

Without knowing anything of your “thrifty” ancestry, Researcher, I *did* think of you with the phrenological reference! (Most people today — other than the historically minded — wouldn’t recognize the word. I wonder how far forward in time phrenology was part of popular culture? I would have thought it had faded by 1940, but evidently not or the joke would be meaningless.)

Trevor, I’ll have to keep an eye out for the unfunniest, most misogynist jokes in future issues, just for you.

By: Researcher

Researcher — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:00:07 +0000

And after the Bernhisel discussions on the topic I can’t help saying (never can resist a pun)…

Once more, phrenology rears its head…

By: Researcher

Researcher — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:57:05 +0000

As an American of Scottish descent, I protest the characterization of Scots as skinflints. Blatant racism.

(I trace my matrilineal line straight back to Lanark and I prefer to call this quality “thrift”)

By: TrevorwM

TrevorwM — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:44:36 +0000

these are frequently misogynist and rarely funny. I love it.

I lol’d (as they say in the vernacular) about “The Modern Caesar”