Vic Varjabedian – Humor
Posted By seovine on February 9, 2011
Humor has been around for a long. long time. Here is some of my favorite jokes from the early 1900′s:
“Pa,” said little Joe, “I bet I can do something you can’t.”
“Well, what is it?” demanded his pa.
“Grow,” replied the youngster triumphantly.—H.E. Zimmerman.
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In a North of England town recently a company of local amateurs produced Hamlet, and the following account of the proceedings appeared in the local paper next morning:
“Last night all the fashionables and elite of our town gathered to witness a performance of Hamlet at the Town Hall. There has been considerable discussion in the press as to whether the play was written by Shakespeare or Bacon. All doubt can be now set at rest. Let their graves be opened; the one who turned over last night is the author.”
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The late Dr. Henry Thayer, founder of Thayer’s Laboratory in Cambridge, was walking along a street one winter morning. The sidewalk was sheeted with ice and the doctor was making his way carefully, as was also a woman going in the opposite direction. In seeking to avoid each other, both slipped and they came down in a heap. The polite doctor was overwhelmed and his embarrassment paralyzed his speech, but the woman was equal to the occasion.
“Doctor, if you will be kind enough to rise and pick out your legs, I will take what remains,” she said cheerfully.
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“Help! Help!” cried an Italian laborer near the mud flats of the Harlem river.
“What’s the matter there?” came a voice from the construction shanty.
“Queek! Bringa da shov’! Bringa da peek! Giovanni’s stuck in da mud.”
“How far in?”
“Up to hees knees.”
“Oh, let him walk out.”
“No, no! He no canna walk! He wronga end up!”