Well, Mr. Trump has done it again... he had a peaceful protesting Muslim woman ejected from one of his rallies. Some of his supporters made their feelings felt and it all sounded like a Nazi crowd razing Jews 80 years ago. I threw a person out of one of my meetings last year.. but, in my case, the lady was not quietly protesting.. she was yelling at me and my attendees, telling them how dumb they were. Anyway, Mr. Trump is always in some kind of trouble. Just visualize the state of affairs if he were to become President.
I went to a friend's funeral today... but since I was the only one, I thought that I should check the obituary again... yep... I had misread it.. the funeral is next Saturday. Am I getting senile in my dotage? That's the second "meeting" this week where I was the only attendee!!
Some years ago, I found a wonderful book at a local auction. It is a book of jokes by a noted Westminster, Maryland raconteur, Willam M. Passano, SR. It was published by Popeye's Publishing Company, Boston.. in 1985. Which, I believe, was a property established by Mr. Passano, whose family and friends have called POPEYE for years. (Like me as PREPOP.)
There is a printed warning that none of the book can be reproduced in any form. However, the book contains jokes... which are all in the public domain... nobody owns jokes, although some comedians probably think they do. I want to defy the warning and reproduce some of the jokes (all of which I think are great... Popeye must have been a great storyteller.)
Jealous Husband
Jim was given the afternoon off by his boss. As he came home, he smelt cigar smoke in his house and his wife was dressed in a negligee and looked flustered. Jim looked out the window and saw a man hurrying along the sidewalk. Thinking that this guy had probably been messing with his wife, he grabbed the nearest thing he could put his hands on, which was a refrigerator, and threw it out of the second story window. It landed on the hurrying man, killing him instantly.
But this exertion had been too much for Jim, and he had a heart attack and died.
Subsequently, three guys showed up at the Pearly Gates.
Saint Peter asked the first guy what happened to him. He said, "I had a domestic problem and I overexerted myself, had a heart attack and died."
Saint Peter asked the second guy what happened to him. He said, "I was walking along, hurrying to work, when somebody threw a refrigerator at me and killed me."
Saint Peter then asked the third guy what happened to him. He said, "Well, I was sitting in a refrigerator minding my own business...."
Homesick
A salesman has been out on the road for several days and he orders for breakfast warm orange juice, two eggs boiled hard, burnt toast and lukewarm coffee. When this arrives he says to the waitress: "Now nag me. I've been on the road for a month and I'm homesick."
Music
A guy goes into a bar, orders a martini, and goes into the men's room. When he comes back, he finds a monkey on the bar with its tail in his drink. He complains to the bartender, who says "It belongs to the piano player, talk to him." So he goes over to the piano player and says: "Hey... do you know your monkey has his tail in my drink?" The piano player responds: "No, I don't, but if you hum a few bars I think I could pick it up."
To finish today's blog entry.. here is what I consider the best of the lot of jokes:
Lobsterman
A lobsterman had been tending his pots in Maine all morning, and when he returned to the dock in the afternoon, he saw a crowd of people gathered there. When he went ashore, he was told that his mother in law had fallen off the dock and drowned. When they hauled her up, she was covered with lobsters. They asked him what they should do, and he said: "Well, pick them off and set her out again."
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