Comments on: Funny Bones, 1913

By: Researcher

Researcher — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:08:27 +0000

Regarding that first joke and the others involving other churches, it is very different from the church publications I have been familiar with for much of my life that seem to observe the polite fiction that other religions do not exist. (Not a criticism, just a curiosity.)

By: Christopher

Christopher — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:49:04 +0000

I like thr first one about Methodists and Baptists. Fun stuff. Thanks, Ardis.

By: Maurine

Maurine — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:50:40 +0000

My favorites today are “Where He Slept,” “Epitaph,” and “More Truth than Helpful.” But I must be in a strange mood because I laughed at them all.

My mother was born in 1908, so I am trying to picture her older siblings or parents laughing at these jokes.

By: Ray

Ray — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:24:20 +0000

“As Mother Used to Do” is my favorite, but “An Oversight” and “Where He Slept” are close behind.

I love these, Ardis. Whenever I read the puns, I can hear my father-in-law as clearly as if her were here. The man will go through nine bad puns just to get to the great one – and that tenth one generally is a great one.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:51:13 +0000

Now if only the late Mr. Strange or the lamented Anna were Scots …

By: Researcher

Researcher — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:12:45 +0000

These jokes are so deliciously “gentile.” Ministers, carousing males, jailbirds.

I like the mushroom epitaph. Here’s a banana one:

In memory of Anna Hopewell
Here lies the body of our Anna
Done to death by a banana
It wasn’t the fruit that laid her low
But the skin of the thing that made her go.

Or how about a lawyer epitaph. That takes care of two categories of humor in one fell swoop:

Sir John Strange.
Here lies an honest lawyer.
And that is Strange.