“When grown-up persons indulge in practical jokes, the fact gauges them. They have lived narrow, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full manhood they still retain and cherish a job lot of left-over standards and ideals that would have been discarded with their boyhood if they had then moved out into the world and a broader life.” IfsWorldPersonsHas BeensStillsFactsJobsLeftStandardsJokesIdealsMovedPracticalsIgnorantCherishObscureManhoodIndulgeIndulge InDiscardedBoyhoodGaugesPractical Joke Book:Autobiography of Mark Twain Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain
“I speculate that the genesis of the chicken-joke lies in some situation such as the one illustrated above, but over time the original context of the joke was lost, which left the chicken sadly decontextualized.” LyingLostLeftSituationJokesOriginalsChickensGenesis Author:Ryan North
“There are passages of the Bible that are soiled forever by the touches of the hands of ministers who delight in the cheap jokes they have left behind them.” HandsLeftBehindsForeverJokesDelightMinistersPassagesLeft Behind Author:Phillips Brooks
“I don't care if my opinion falls on the right or the left. I'm more of what I call a passionate centrist. I just believe what I believe. I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.” IfsGivingTryingBelieveCareFallLeftI BelieveSidesOpinionProveJokesGive MePassionateDon't CareI Don't CareJust Believe Author:Larry Wilmore
“When two terms belong to the same category, it is proper to construct conjunctive propositions embodying them. Thus a purchaser may say that he bought a left-hand glove and a right- hand glove, but not that he bought a left-hand glove, a right- hand glove, and a pair of gloves. 'She came home in a flood of tears and a sedan-chair' is a well known joke based on the absurdity of conjoining terms of different types. Now the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine does just this. It maintains that there exist both bodies and minds.” MindWellsMayDoeTwoDifferentHomeBodyHandsLeftTermKnownTearsTypeJokesMachinesGhostChairsPairsCategoriesDogmaFloodAbsurdityConstructsWell KnownPropositionsMind And BodyGlovesLeft HandPurchasers Book:The Concept of Mind Source: The Concept of Mind
“Iceland is 50 percent Celtic blood, from the females that they stole from us, which is why our country has only got dogs left. It was a joke! I'll never be let back in Scotland again!” CountryLeftBloodDogJokesPercentFemaleOur CountryScotlandCelticIceland Author:Gerard Butler