• Old jokes (was: Christmas Carols for the Psychotically Challenged)

    From JOE MACKEY@1:135/392 to GEORGE POPE on Sat Jan 1 05:45:48 2022
    CP wrote --

    Yup, I'm the sam,e -- get good jokes, puns, memes, &/or taglines & don't get them off until asfter the event they're set to.

    I used to write down jokes and things years ago and had them in
    categories. A lot of those were lost (and probably just as well) when I went from my
    Commie to a PC.
    On my big trip in '19 I visited Ed Vance, who stops by here from time to time, to use his old Commie to see what was on those 5" floppies but didn't keep any of them.
    I've read were old comics often had jokes on index cards on all sorts of topics. One, forget off hand who, had a million of them. (I want to say Milton Berle but not sure).
    Joe
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  • From Daryl Stout@1:2320/33 to JOE MACKEY on Sun Jan 2 02:47:00 2022
    Joe,

    I've read were old comics often had jokes on index cards on all sorts
    of topics. One, forget off hand who, had a million of them. (I want
    to say Milton Berle but not sure).

    I thought Jimmy Durante said "I've got a million of 'em".

    Daryl

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  • From George Pope@1:153/757 to Joe Mackey on Sun Jan 2 08:42:08 2022
    CP wrote --
    Yup, I'm the sam,e -- get good jokes, puns, memes, &/or taglines & don't get
    them off until asfter the event they're set to.
    I used to write down jokes and things years ago and had them in
    categories. A lot of those were lost (and probably just as well) when I went from my
    Commie to a PC.
    On my big trip in '19 I visited Ed Vance, who stops by here from time to time, to use his old Commie to see what was on those 5" floppies but didn't keep any of them.
    I've read were old comics often had jokes on index cards on all sorts of topics. One, forget off hand who, had a million of them. (I want to say Milton Berle but not sure).

    Sounds like something Uncle Miltie would've done, or Henny Youngman.

    What's an old "commie"? Commode Odor?

    My 5.25s are long goine -- I got a bunch of 3.5s ariond here just collecting dust only because my wife hasbn;t noticed them yet!

    My main jokes & puns collection is on my IBM(true blue) DOS 486, that I need help connecting back up (c/w a new 21" CRT for SVGA graphics)

    I'd love to get them off, but physically, I'm unable to -- but I'm building up a nice collection now -- more focused on memes than text, but lots of both, actially!

    For joke returns I think of one oozy I used to have & Google it u p handily enough. (some times it pulls up my own first use of it in the FUNNY echo back in the '90s!)

    I've spent 4 decades in Fidonet now! (parts thereof, anyhow)

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