Comments on: Funny Bones, 1928 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/02/27/funny-bones-1928/ Where our past is never very long ago Sat, 25 May 2013 06:15:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: FHL http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/02/27/funny-bones-1928/comment-page-1/#comment-20133 FHL Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:43:46 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=5982#comment-20133 This was a bumper crop! Thanks for the smiles! =)

(The daily contributions to the Atlantic was my favorite!)

]]> By: Left Field http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/02/27/funny-bones-1928/comment-page-1/#comment-20093 Left Field Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:48:00 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=5982#comment-20093 Ah, yes. The Mirthright feature continued intermittently in the Ensign up through the mid-80s. Readers submitted entries in the “my kid said a cuter thing than your kid” contest. I recall at one point, the editors pointed out that they received few entries that didn’t involve children, and could readers please submit jokes involving adults? Finally, they threw in the towel, and published a list of the most frequently submitted entries, with an appeal to please stop sending them. The list consisted of hackneyed, unlikely, and decidedly unfunny quips allegedly made by children. The most frequently submitted entry was “Is this fast Sunday or slow Sunday?”.

I guess Mirthright may have had a few gems in there somewhere, but its final demise was a welcome event.

]]> By: Ardis E. Parshall http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/02/27/funny-bones-1928/comment-page-1/#comment-20086 Ardis E. Parshall Sun, 28 Feb 2010 04:07:23 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=5982#comment-20086 They tried a joke page in the early ’70s, but it just wasn’t funny. At all. Everything was prim and proper and suitable for the Sunday pulpit. They wanted the jokes to be “true,” and you can only laugh so many times at trite descriptions of children misunderstanding Mormon vocabulary, or contrived stories about very pregnant music directors named Hope blushing as they lead the lines “there is hope smiling brightly before us and we know that deliverance is nigh.”

Bring back corny! Bring back funny!

]]> By: Mina http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/02/27/funny-bones-1928/comment-page-1/#comment-20084 Mina Sun, 28 Feb 2010 03:42:05 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=5982#comment-20084 I like the corny humor in these posts because 1) I like corny humor and 2) I like seeing the “distance” between then and now, as Ardis points out.

Anyway, why doesn’t the Ensign have a joke page? I might even subscribe just to see it!

]]> By: Ardis E. Parshall http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/02/27/funny-bones-1928/comment-page-1/#comment-20079 Ardis E. Parshall Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:42:00 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=5982#comment-20079 A good share of the fun is figuring out how the language has changed. (Of course, another HUGE share of the fun is laughing guiltily at jokes that wouldn’t appear in the Ensign today even if they had a joke page — like the exchange between the bachelor and his married friend here!)

]]> By: David Young http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/02/27/funny-bones-1928/comment-page-1/#comment-20075 David Young Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:24:10 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=5982#comment-20075

“Lady: “Is this fresh milk?”
Milkman: “Arf an hour ago, madam, it was grass.”

Ha!

]]> By: Eric Boysen http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/02/27/funny-bones-1928/comment-page-1/#comment-20073 Eric Boysen Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:18:06 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=5982#comment-20073 It is a flavor of gum!

]]> By: CurtA http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/02/27/funny-bones-1928/comment-page-1/#comment-20071 CurtA Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:37:51 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=5982#comment-20071 Ardis,

Thanks for the Saturday morning chuckles, but in “Wrong Sport”, I wonder how many folks today know what a black jack is (was)?

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