Jokes

On Sunday Scott & I had a chance to spend a few hours with his daughter Deborah. We only had a few hours to spend with her so instead of taking her out to dinner we decided to order pizza from my house and begin the 2008 halloween decorations!

Robbie, Deborah, Scott and I had a ball sorting through the decorations and putting together the graveyard and as many of the light up decorations as we could before Scott had to take Deb back to her grandmothers. We had so much fun and she loved the various decorations that I have collected over the years!

As mostof you know, I LOVE HALLOWEEN!! I believe I got that (whatever that is) from Dad! He loved Alford Hitchcock, Creature Feature (Dr. Paul Bearer), Tails from the Cript, and Elvira!

He always enjoyed seeing the pictures from my various yard scenes and the crazy costumes I came up with. I remember he was especially impressed with my witch costume last year.

All this (and Mich's previous post on daddy's laughter) got me thinking about dad's jokes. One of my favorites is the one about the polock that went to the eye doctor for glasses. After many failed attempts to get the polock to cover one eye so that he could read the eye chart, the doctor finally gets a paper bag and cuts out two flaps. He places the bag over the polock's head and lifts the right flap.... low and behold the polock is crying. The doc takes the bag off his head and begins to appologize! "I'm so sorry if I offended you..." The polock cut in and says "That's ok, I just had my heart set on wire rims"! hehehehe

Dad also loved the rhyme thingies (can't remember what they are called and when i typed this one into the yahoo search it came back with a whole page of stories from the bible ???)

I see, said the blind man. Who never saw before and never will again. :)

And limericks....

There once was a lady from Niger

Who smiled as she rode on a tiger

They came back from the ride

With the lady inside

And the smile on the face of the tiger

And one that I like....

No matter how grouchy you're feeling

You'll find a smile more or less healing,

It grows in a wreath

All around the front teeth

Thus preventing the face from congealing

And nutty things he said while on an outing....

(Pointing at a really fat person in front of you)

"Have you ever wondered what you look like from behind"?

I tried this on my friend Colleen years ago at the bradenton mall. We spent the day cutting up and were about to leave the mall when we decided an Orange Julius was in order!

As we approached the counter there were two rather large ladies standing in front of us.

(Finally, I thought to myself, a chance to use dad's line)

So I turn to colleen and quietly say...." Have you ever wondered what you look like from behind"? (Me Snickering)

Just about the moment when I'm really getting into a belly laugh the woman turns around and Colleen says "Hi Aunt Pat" (Horror of horrors!!!!!) It really was her aunt and cousin standing in front of us at the counter!!! I could have slipped right through the lines in the tile floor!!!

I never used that one again!!!

I'll try to think of others but please help me out and post some of the jokes/limericks or other funny things that you remember dad telling/saying over the years!

Laughter is the best medicine!!

Kymmie