I thought these were rather humorous as well as interesting and thought I'd post a couple to the list. These are from "Jokes For All Occasions" by Edward J. Clode, cc 1921,1922. Reading through the introduction, these are meant for a person to use in normal conversation to add a bit of humor to it. Enjoy! Angela ****************************************************** The son of a house had been reading of an escaped lunatic. "How do they catch lunatics?" he asked. The father, who had just paid a number of bills, waxed sarcastic: "With enormous straw hats, with little bits of ones, with silks and laces and feathers and jewelry, and so on and so on." "I recall now," the mother spoke up, "I used to wear things of that sort until I married you." ****************************************************** After years of endeavor in poverty, the inventor made a success, and came running home with pockets bulging with real money. He joyously strewed thousand-dollar bills in his wife's lap, crying: "Now, at last, my dear, you will be able to buy you some decent clothes." "I'll do nothing of the kind," was the sharp retort. "I'll get the same kind the other women are wearing." ****************************************************** The farmer, after seven years of effort on the stony farm, announced to all and sundry: "Anyhow, I'm holdin' my own. I hadn't nothin' when I come here, an' I haven't nothin' now." ****************************************************** "I wish I could know how many men will be made wretched when I get married," said the languishing coquette to her most intimate confidante. "I'll tell you," came the catty answer, "if you'll tell me how many men you're going to marry." ****************************************************** The very youthful son of a henpecked father was in a gloomy mood, rebellious against the conditions of his life. He announced a desperate purpose: "I'm going to get married. I'm bossed by pa an ma, an' teacher, an' I ain't going to stan' for it. I'm going to get married right smack off. A married man ain't bossed by nobody 'cept his wife." ******************************************************