Comments on: Funny Bones, 1940 (3rd set)

By: Eliezer

Eliezer — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:26:11 +0000

Maybe I was just in a good mood but several of these had me laughing out loud. Thanks!

By: Clark

Clark — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:25:03 +0000

I would think that first joke about a black man not being accepted into a church would cut a little close to the bone for LDS readers in 1940.

By: Anne (U.K)

Anne (U.K) — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:47:42 +0000

who says ‘No 9666′ is a joke?

By: Bookslinger

Bookslinger — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:06:47 +0000

I like the J Golden Kimball tall tale that ends when asked about a building he says: “I don’t know, it wasn’t here yesterday.”

By: Researcher

Researcher — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:12:23 +0000

The jackrabbit joke is my favorite! I love it. Half a dozen panting jackrabbits. That’s a good old fashioned tall tale! Somehow it seems like the tall tale is underrepresented in Mormon folklore.

And, as has been discussed in previous installments, most of these jokes have an added level of humor from the fact that nobody in church publishing nowadays would dream of addressing subjects like these in a humorous fashion in a church magazine. Spanking. Insults. Integration. Ethnic humor (that’s the Scots joke!). Cannibalism…

And, how interesting to read the first one. I was listening to a discussion on the radio yesterday about the embattled governor of New York and the story spent some time discussing the influence that Harlem has had on United States politics over the past decades, and how that influence is starting to change as Harlem becomes more diverse.