Comments on: Funny Bones, 1876 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2009/01/03/funny-bones-1876/ Where our past is never very long ago Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:08:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ardis E. Parshall http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2009/01/03/funny-bones-1876/comment-page-1/#comment-5489 Ardis E. Parshall Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:01:53 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=501#comment-5489 Most of the jokes could have been printed 50 years later, after updating the slang, perhaps. I’m amazed — and I’m not sure why — that there were so many “battle of the sexes” jokes in print at that date, and I wonder which of the editors was chiefly responsible for tucking them into the odd corners of the issues.

]]> By: Researcher http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2009/01/03/funny-bones-1876/comment-page-1/#comment-5487 Researcher Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:46:09 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=501#comment-5487 The tears joke is very funny. It reminds me of the Ogden Nash poem where the scientist is informed that his wife has just been eaten by an alligator.

Professor Twist could not but smile;
You mean, he said, a crocodile.

]]> By: Ray http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2009/01/03/funny-bones-1876/comment-page-1/#comment-5468 Ray Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:23:43 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=501#comment-5468 My FIL would love these. I got a good groan out of them.

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