“You know, my family’s in the iron and steel business.”
Oh, really?
“Yeah, my mother irons and my father steals!”
Badabum pshhhh!
Definitely pre-WWII, I’d say.
I’m sorry, I just can’t see myself in a winter/spring relationship.
This site identifies it as 1930s. Other sites just call it an old joke.
Did your uncle drive a Rolls Canharly?
My WAG would have been 1930s too. It sounds like something out of a Marx Brothers movie.
My first thought was Henny Youngman or even Rodney Dangerfield, but apparently not.
I don’t think the Marxes ever did a joke that bad. It does have a vaudeville or Borscht Belt “take my wife, please” quality.
This joke was used in a 1965 episode of The Munsters, and Wes Craven’s 1972 movie The Last House on the Left. I have no trouble believing it’s older.
Found it used by Ed Wynne in 1932 on the radio. So, yeah, vaudeville sounds right.
Ice water? Where’d you get it? Oh, you want some? Well that’s different. Eat an onion, that’ll make your eyes water!
It is better to have loft and lost than never to have loft at all.
As I say, we tried to remove the tusks. But they were embedded so firmly we couldn’t budge them. Of course, in Alabama the Tuscaloosa, but that is entirely ir-elephant to what I was talking about.
Well, all the jokes can’t be good. You’ve got to expect that once in a while.
And my favorite: “One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know.”
Old or not, it was new (and funny) to me.
What about the joke I’m dating now?
Sorry, I’m married.
Date it? I hardly know…
[sub]oh. been done.[/sub]