Comments on: Funny Bones, 1915 (3)

By: Researcher

Researcher — Sun, 16 May 2010 17:27:24 +0000

Thanks, Eric!

By: Eric Boysen

Eric Boysen — Sun, 16 May 2010 14:03:17 +0000

He was saying that he filled up the entire outdoors with stacks of hay, but that wasn’t enough room for it all, so he had to put some in the barn as well. The absurdity was a rejoinder to the farmer’s boast of a large crop.

By: Researcher

Researcher — Sun, 16 May 2010 11:46:09 +0000

I must be too many generations removed from the farm. I didn’t understand the Lincoln joke. Isn’t hay usually stacked outdoors?

Evidently my g-g-grandpa liked to tell Lincoln jokes.

He told of office seekers hounding Lincoln for jobs after his election to the presidency. Some folks who urged the case of one of the office seekers related that their man was sick and needed the job. Lincoln listened and then told them their case would be considered. When they returned sometime later he told them he had had some people in with a sicker man than theirs.

Some other people seeking jobs asked him, “Well, can’t you give us something?” When he got the measles (or chicken pox) he told his secretary to call these people and tell them to come over as he now had something he could give them.

By: Maurine

Maurine — Sat, 15 May 2010 23:20:27 +0000

I like the caster oil one, have been on the receiving end a lot when I was little.

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Sat, 15 May 2010 15:31:46 +0000

Lincoln is still funnier than the rest of the lot!

But I like the directions to the good fishing.

By: Researcher

Researcher — Sat, 15 May 2010 15:15:15 +0000

I love the Scot’s reply to the American.

“On a fine nicht we can see the mune.”

It’s a constant amazement how these collections retain a flavor of the era.