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Life is short, and time just flies by, so I love those moments when we're all sitting around the table together laughing and joking.
—Ainsley Earhardt
A lot of joking stems from a very dark place a bit.
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In the years BI (Before Internet), even though there were stone tablets with words chiseled on them, and later, books, most jokes spread through word of mouth.
As part of cultural lore, kids heard them from their older siblings, passed them around to other kids, and later told them to their younger siblings. As with any such oral traditions, they could change over time, usually modified for relevance.
Occasionally, they'd get etched in stone, and thus lose their capacity for relevance... though they could still be useful as windows onto a lost past time.
During this period, while I wasn't great at inventing jokes (nor did I have siblings), I had a good memory for jokes. So I participated in this grand oral tradition. I know other kids sat around campfires telling ghost stories, which is a slightly different art. But we'd sit around, usually indoors because there were ghosts outdoors, and tell each other jokes.
There's a synergy that happens when you do this, something that's just missing from passing jokes around via text or website. You start out maybe chuckling a bit, then laughing, and later, if it goes on long enough, you're all falling down laughing your asses off.
At that point, right when you think you can't utter another hee or ha, someone will inevitably repeat the punch line from a joke told half an hour ago, and everyone falls into paroxysms of laughter all over again.
Now, don't get me wrong; I'm not feeling nostalgic for some mythical better time. The internet can be great, and it puts millions of jokes at our fingertips. I just think we could all benefit from a good old-fashioned joke-telling session.
Unfortunately, I've offloaded that part of my memory onto the internet, so I don't remember any. |
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Last time, in "Keep the Tip" , I went on a tipping rant.
s  : First, "gratuity" comes from "gratus", Latin adjective for 'thankful, pleasing, welcome' - gratuity was originally something given as a way of saying thanks.
Second, tipping does not exist in Australia. Service staff are paid well, and are NOT allowed to be paid less than award wage. However, many shops (especially in Sydney, which thinks it is Australia's version of New York... but is actually Australia's version of Springfield from the Simpsons) now ask for tips. These are not given to the staff member, but put into the Christmas party pot, or taken by the owner. Australians... yet again misunderstanding the American world they so desperately want to emulate...
Leave it to Australia to get things upside-down.
Sum1's Home  : I put the 'tip brakes' on one time while in the Charlotte NC airport. I went to the restroom, there was a man with a tip jar there. His job was to keep the restroom clean. Admittedly it looked good, it was clean. I just didn't see the need to tip him for some reason, and never will tip someone in that position.
Yeah... clean bathrooms should be the minimum standard. Want a tip? Hold it for me, shake it off, and wash your hands afterwards so I don't have to.
So that's it for me for May. See you next month! Until then, keep joking, and...
LAUGH ON!!!
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Comedy: May 22, 2024 Issue [#12559]
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