Comments on: Funny Bones, 1904

By: Edje

Edje — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 06:16:07 +0000

“Only the young die good” was my favorite, also. I might make a T-shirt.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 20:40:32 +0000

I liked “Only the young die good.”

By: psychochemiker

psychochemiker — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:43:32 +0000

I liked the peacock joke, the laughing at the judge joke, and the farmer knowing how many pigs but not kids joke.

By: JonW

JonW — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:25:10 +0000

Interesting versions of the tobacco and gin jokes.

By: Keri Brooks

Keri Brooks — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 15:49:46 +0000

I like the peacock joke. I guess law school hasn’t stolen all of my sense from me yet, because my first thought was that peacocks are male, and therefore don’t lay eggs. The one with the witness mouthing off to the judge made me laugh, too.

By: Coffinberry

Coffinberry — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 14:15:51 +0000

I seem to recall some variant of the maniac-with-a-knife one as a campfire tale of the mid-70′s at a midwestern YMCA camp. Though I think it involved a pink gorilla chasing after a hapless camp counselor, who could never finish his assigned chore because he was running away from the gorilla (and hence was relegated to doing only the truly lowly dirty work around camp, like scrubbing toilets and unstopping shower drains). The tale was dragged out forever and a day, with the same ending of “tag! you’re it!”.