by Curt Kovener
In clearing out the electronic in-box and trash can, I decided to do some recycling. So here are some not-so-thought provoking offerings. If anyone finds some of these offensive…maybe you need a sense of humor.
- I planted some birdseed. A bird came up. Now I don’t know what to feed it.
- I had amnesia once —or twice.
- I went to San Francisco. I found someone’s heart. Now what?
- Protons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic.
- All I ask is a chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.
- If the world were a logical place, men would ride horses sidesaddle.
- What is a free gift? Aren’t all gifts free?
- They told me I was gullible… and I believed them.
- Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he’ll never be able to merge his car onto a freeway.
- Two can live as cheaply as one, for half as long.
- Is there another word for synonym?
- Where do forest rangers go to ‘get away from it all’?
- The speed of time is one second per second.
- Is it possible to be totally partial?
- What’s another word for thesaurus?
- Is Karl Marx’s tomb a communist plot?
- If swimming is so good for your figure, how do you explain whales?
- Show me a man with both feet firmly on the ground, and I’ll show you a man who can’t get his pants off.
- It’s not an optical illusion. It just looks like one.
- Is it my imagination, or do buffalo wings taste like chicken?
- Experience is the thing you have left when everything else is gone.
- What if there were no hypothetical questions?
- One nice thing about egotists: They don’t talk about other people.
- When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to look like a nail.
- A flashlight is a case for holding dead batteries.
- What was the greatest thing before sliced bread?
- My weight is perfect for my height —which varies.
- I used to be indecisive. Now I’m not sure.
- The cost of living hasn’t affected its popularity.
- How can there be self-help “groups”?
- Do Roman paramedics refer to IV’s as “4’s”?
- If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
- When someone asks you, “A penny for your thoughts,” and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?
- Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It’s just stale bread to begin with.
- Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist, but a person who drives a race car not called a racist?
- If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?