Its All About Jokes

One day many years ago, a fisherman‘s wife blessed her
husband with twin sons. They loved the children very much,
but couldn‘t think of what to name their children. Finally, after
several days, the fisherman said, ‘Let‘s not decide on names
right now. If we wait a little while, the names will simply occur
to us.‘

After several weeks had passed, the fisherman and his wife
noticed a peculiar fact. When left alone, one of the boys would
also turn towards the sea, while the other boy would face
inland. It didn‘t matter which way the parents positioned the
children, the same child always faced the same direction.
‘Let‘s call the boys Towards and Away,‘ suggested the
fisherman. His wife agreed, and from that point on, the boys
were simply known as TOWARDS and AWAY.

The years passed and the lads grew tall and strong. The day
came when the aging fisherman said to his sons, ‘Boys, it is
time that learned how to make a living from the sea.‘ They
provisioned their ship, said their goodbyes, and set sail for a
three month voyage.

The three months passed quickly for the fisherman‘s wife, yet
the ship had not returned. Another three months passed, and
still no ship.

Three whole years passed before the grieving woman saw a
lone man walking towards her house. She recognized him as
her husband. ‘My goodness! What has happened to my
darling boys?‘ she cried.

The ragged fisherman began to tell his story:

‘We were just barely one whole day out to see when Towards
hooked into a great fish. Towards fought long and hard, but the
fish was more than his equal. For a whole week they wrestled
upon the waves without either of them letting up. Yet eventually
the great fish started to win the battle, and Towards was pulled
over the side of our ship. He was swallowed whole, and we
never saw either of them again.‘

‘Oh dear, that must have been terrible! What a huge fish that
must of been! What a horrible fish. What a horrible fish.‘

‘Yes, it was, but you should have seen the one that got Away….‘

The Lone Ranger and Tonto are riding through one of the many
canyons when suddenly rising from the hill on their right are hundreds of
indians. They start to spur their horse forward when they realised that there
are hundreds of indians ahead of them. Wheeling to the left they, once
again, see hundreds of indians rising from the hill. They begin to back away
in the direction from which they had come and they realise, they were
surrounded. The indians had spread out. They were trapped.

The Lone Ranger turns to Tonto, his life long friend, and says ‘Tonto,
my firend, I think I must say that I have treasured our times together
but now I think we are doomed‘.

‘ We?‘ replied Tonto ‘What‘s all this we, Paleface?‘

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn‘t it follow
that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged,
models deposed and dry cleaners depressed? Laundry workers could decrease,
eventually becoming depressed and depleted! Even more, bedmakers will
be debunked, baseball players will be debased, landscapers will be
deflowered, bulldozer operators will be degraded, organ donors will be
delivered, software engineers will be detested, the BVD company will be
debriefed, and even musical composers will eventually decompose. And on
a more positive note, perhaps we can hope politicians will be devoted.

A Guide to the Identification and Classification of North American Farts

Learning- or better still, thinking up- names for fart types is a
traditional early-adolescent ritual. Similarly, methods of identifying
the source of a fart are a subject of peer-group, or tribal,
speculation, the usual rule of thumb being ‘Who smelled it, dealt it,‘
or ‘The smeller‘s the feller.‘

Occasionally, this oral tradition has acheived the level of Xerox
publication, but never before has a systematic analysis, along the lines
of Jane‘s Fighting ships or A Field Guide to the Birds, been attempted
in print. Tentatively, then, we present the following.

Blind Farts: Traditional noiseless reekers. (Expression since circa
1880 – see also ‘SBD‘s‘).

Boomers: Full-throated, rousing explosions; the parent orginism
frequently betrays his or her authorship with a smile of ill-conceled
pride.

Carpet Creepers: Heavier- than- air creations, these linger and
permeate the atmosphere at or near ground level; source invariably
anonymous, having left the room.

Fizzles: Efforts at first promising, but eventually unsatisfactory, at
least to the donor; often effective upon bystanders. Often the last of a
series; originator betrays disappointment.

Fudgies: See Wet Ones.

One-Cheek Sneaks: Attempted surreptitous contributions, usually
signified BY the the artist‘s ‘tilting‘. Ricocheting off metal ‘bridge
chairs‘ or church pews, they posses satisfactory resonance, produce
blushes, giggles, glares.

Poohs: Open-spincter donations, gusty and full-bodied, but lacking
sonority; popular on buses; customarily unaknowledged.

SBD‘s: (Silent But Deadly type). Consistant with the Law of
Conservation of Energy, what SBD lacks in audible qualities is
compensated for in a semi-lethal olfactory intensity. The mechanism
responsible is usually the innocent-looking person glancing about
suspiciously.

Screamers: High-pitched, tight-spincter offerings, often of astonishing
duration and tonal variations; most pleasuribly exchanged among roomates
or frat brothers, or inspired by presence of officious bureaucrat.

Sliders: See One-Cheek Sneaks.

Squeegies: Small, immature, and moist products. Humiliating for all
concerned.

Wet Ones: (aka Brewer‘s Farts, Fudgies, Playing Misty). Samples are
accompnied by gutteral, rasping, or lisping sound, indicating vaporous
content. Originator registers astonishment, dred, then departs, walking
funny.

Whiffers: see Poohs.

The Latest Breaking News on the GoodTimes Virus

It turns out that this so-called hoax virus is very
dangerous after all. Goodtimes will re-write your hard
drive. Not only that, it will scramble any disks that are
even close to your computer. It will recalibrate your
refrigerator‘s coolness setting so all your ice cream goes
melty. It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit
cards, screw up the tracking on your television and use
subspace field harmonics to scratch any CDs you try to
play.

It will give your ex-girlfriend your new phone number. It
will mix Kool-aid into your fishtank. It will drink all
your beer and leave dirty socks on the coffee table when
company comes over. It will put a dead kitten in the back
pocket of your good suit pants and hide your car keys when
you are late for work.

Goodtimes will make you fall in love with a penguin. It
will give you nightmares about circus midgets. It will pour
sugar in your gas tank and shave off both your eyebrows
while dating your girlfriend behind your back and billing
the dinner and hotel room to your Discover card.

It will seduce your grandmother. It does not matter if
she is dead, such is the power of Goodtimes, it reaches out
beyond the grave to sully those things we hold most dear.

It moves your car randomly around parking lots so you
can‘t find it. It will kick your dog. It will leave
libidinous messages on your boss‘s voice mail in your voice!
It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and terrifying
to behold. It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve.

Goodtimes will give you Dutch Elm disease. It will leave
the toilet seat up. It will make a batch of Methamphetamine
in your bathtub and then leave bacon cooking on the stove
while it goes out to chase gradeschoolers with your new
snowblower.

My friend, Ed Peterson, over at Wellsburg, Iowa, received a check
for $1,000.00 from the government for not raising hogs. So I want to
go into the ‘not raising hogs‘ business next year.

What I want to know is, in your opinion, what is the best kind of
farm not to raise hogs on and what is the best breed of hogs not to
raise? I want to be sure that I approach this endeavor in keeping
with all governmental policies. I would prefer not to raise
razorbacks, but if that is not a good breed not to raise, then I would
just as gladly not raise Yorkshires or Durocs.

As I see it, the hardest part of this program will be in keeping an
accurate inventory of how many hogs I haven‘t raised.

My friend, Peterson, is very joyful about the future of the
business. He has been raising hogs for twenty years or so, and the
best he ever made on them was $442.00 in 1968, until this year when he
got your check for $1,000.00 for not raising hogs.

If I get $1,000.00 for not raising 50 hogs, will I get $2,000.00 for
not raising 100 hogs? I plan to operate on a small scale at first,
holding myself down to about 4,000 hogs not raised, which will mean
about $80,000.00 the first year. Then I can afford an airplane.

Now another thing. These hogs I will not be raising will not eat
100,000 bushels of corn. I understand that you also pay farmers for
not raising corn and wheat. Will I qualify for payments for not
raising wheat and corn not to feed the 4,000 hogs I am not going to
raise?

I want to get started as soon as possible as this seems to be a good
time of the year not to raise hogs and grain.

Also, I am considering the ‘not milking cows‘ business, so send me
any information on that too.

In view of these circumstances, you understand that I will be
totally unemployed and plan to file for unemployment and food stamps.

Be assured you will have my vote in the coming election.

Patriotically yours,

Jean Partridge

A young peasant girl of fourteen went to work in a broom
factory. After 2 months she gave the boss a two-week notice.
The boss was quite unhappy to let her go since she was hard
working, knew her tasks etc. He called her into his office, ‘But
why?‘ he asked.

‘Nothin, I just wanna quit that‘s all,‘ she said sullenly.

‘Look, I‘ll give you a raise.‘

‘No,‘ she said

‘You can‘t just quit like that. There must be a reason. Tell me.‘

‘Okay if you must know…‘ said the girl, and she took off her
underwear and pointed to her pubic hair, ‘Look I haven‘t had
this before, it‘s the broom‘s bristles, I tell you…‘

Tickled by her innocence, he too took off his underwear and
showed his, and said, ‘Ha ha…my dear it‘s nature. Look I have
it too….‘

‘Oh no!‘ the girl cried, ‘I can‘t wait two weeks, I quit now! Not
only do you have the bristles, but you‘ve grown the handle as
well.‘

Joe, the neighborhood chronic borrower approached his
neighbor, ‘Ray, may I borrow your axe?‘

‘Not today,‘ Ray replied, ‘I have to make soup.‘

‘What kind of excuse it that?!‘ demanded Joe.

‘Well,‘ confessed Ray, ‘I admit its a lousy excuse. But, if I
don‘t want to loan you my axe, one excuse is as good as
another.‘

Language Trends of the Future

There are consistent trends in the past evolution of languages, and in
all likelihood they will continue to change in the same fashion in the
future.

In 200 years, spoken French will have only one sound, a vowel. All
consonants and gaps between words and sentences will disappear, leaving
only an extended ‘Eauuuuuuuuuuuu…‘ Meaning will be inferred from
facial expression. Written French will stay exactly the same.

These consonants will not be entirely forgotten; they will migrate
to Czechoslovakia, which will by that time have no use for vowels.

In 200 years, the English vocabulary will be the union of all other
vocabularies, but the spelling will be original.

Similarly, the Japanese alphabet will be the union of all other
alphabets in the world.

The Cyrillic alphabet will eventually be the same as the Latin
alphabet, only backwards. A mirror will suffice for translating
Russian into Polish.

Finally, in 200 years, entire books in Germany will be one word. Plus
a verb at the end, of course.

[From Henry_Cate_III.OSBU_North@xerox.com]

Changing of the English Language

Having chosen English as the preferred language in the EEC, the European
Parliament has commissioned a feasibility study in ways of improving
efficiency in communications between Government departments.

European officials have often pointed out that English spelling is
unnecessarily difficult – for example, cough, plough, rough, through and
thorough. What is clearly needed is a phased programme of changes to
iron out these anomalies. The programme would, of course, be
administered by a committee staff at top level by participating nations.

In the first year, for example, the committee would suggest using ‘s‘
instead of the soft ‘c‘. Sertainly, sivil servants in all sities would
resieve this news with joy. Then the hard ‘c‘ could be replaced by ‘k‘
sinse both letters are pronounsed alike. Not only would this klear up
konfusion in the minds of klerikal workers, but typewriters kould be
made with one less letter.

There would be growing enthusiasm when in the sekond year, it kould be
announsed that the troublesome ‘ph‘ would henseforth be written ‘f‘.
This would make words like ‘fotograf‘ twenty per sent shorter in print.

In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted
to reash the stage where more komplikated shanges are possible.
Governments would enkourage the removal of double letters which have
always been a deterent to akurate speling.

We would al agre that the horible mes of silent ‘e‘s in the languag is
disgrasful. Therefor we kould drop thes and kontinu to read and writ as
though nothing had hapend. By this tim it would be four years sins the
skem began and peopl would be reseptive to steps sutsh as replasing ‘th‘
by ‘z‘. Perhaps zen ze funktion of ‘w‘ kould be taken on by ‘v‘, vitsh
is, after al, half a ‘w‘. Shortly after zis, ze unesesary ‘o kould be
dropd from words kontaining ‘ou‘. Similar arguments vud of kors be aplid
to ozer kombinations of leters.

Kontinuing zis proses yer after yer, ve vud eventuli hav a reli sensibl
riten styl. After tventi yers zer vud be no mor trubls, difikultis and
evrivun vud fin it ezi tu understand ech ozer. Ze drems of the Guvermnt
vud finali hav kum tru.