Comments on: Funny Bones, 1916 (5) http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/08/25/funny-bones-1916-5/ Where our past is never very long ago Mon, 20 May 2013 00:29:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ardis E. Parshall http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/08/25/funny-bones-1916-5/comment-page-1/#comment-259539 Ardis E. Parshall Fri, 31 Aug 2012 19:17:00 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=13436#comment-259539 Heh! Good to know! That was a fun set of stories, and I wish there were more.

]]> By: Lee http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/08/25/funny-bones-1916-5/comment-page-1/#comment-259538 Lee Fri, 31 Aug 2012 19:11:26 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=13436#comment-259538 Well, thanks for posting them. I read these Funny Bones to my kids on occasion (selecting as I read). Their favorites are still the “Mrs. Benson Takes a Hand” stories, though.

]]> By: Ardis E. Parshall http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/08/25/funny-bones-1916-5/comment-page-1/#comment-259511 Ardis E. Parshall Fri, 31 Aug 2012 17:14:11 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=13436#comment-259511 Lee, it’s just a generic joke built around something stereotypical that a generic Protestant minister might say, with no particular connection to Mormonism.

That’s true of virtually all the jokes in the weekly Funny Bones posts — the jokes appear to have been copied from general American magazines and newspapers, and were not written by Mormons about Mormons. My excuse for posting them is that these jokes tell us something about what our grandparents thought was funny.

]]> By: Lee http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/08/25/funny-bones-1916-5/comment-page-1/#comment-259491 Lee Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:19:50 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=13436#comment-259491 In “Not What He Meant” what kind of preacher is it referring to? Did high councilmen speak for that length of time at that time in church history? Or is the joke referring to a non-LDS preacher?

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