Everything But The Weed

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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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When William H. Crane was younger and less discreet he had a vaunting ambition to play Hamlet. So with his first profits he organized his own company and he went to an inland western town to give vent to his ambition and “try it on.”

When he came back to New York a group of friends noticed that the actor appeared to be much downcast.

“What’s the matter, Crane? Didn’t they appreciate it?” asked one of his friends.

“They didn’t seem to,” laconically answered the actor.

“Well, didn’t they give any encouragement? Didn’t they ask you to come before the curtain?” persisted the friend.

“Ask me?” answered Crane. “Man, they dared me!” 

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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!”