We are putting together our work newsletter and we usually include a couple of funnies to keep the readers amused.
My boss has just given me a book of one liners that he was given by our newsletter publisher. Unfortunately it’s really not suitable eg:
*“A secretary is someone you pay to learn to type while she looks for a husband.”
“The overworked prostitute made two appointments for the same time. She managed to squeeze them both in.”*
Rather than go back to my boss and say the contents of the book could be offensive to our readers (they were to me), I would like to give him some alternative options.
What I’m looking for is stuff that’s mostly PC (I don’t want to offend our readers) and fairly upbeat. So can the Teeming Millions help me out, please?
Or how about a series of “a guy walked into a bar” jokes. There are plenty of inoffensive ones:
A guy walked into a bar. It hurt.
A horse walked into a bar. The bartender said, “Why the long face?”
A grasshopper walked into a bar. The bartender said, “Hey! We’ve got a drink named after you.” The grasshopper said, “You’ve got a drink named Irving?”
would the “guy with no arms and no legs” jokes be offensive? there are pleanty of those…
what do you call a gwnaanl:
at a concert?
-mike!
tacked to the wall?
-art!
in a cemetary?
-doug!
on the porch?
-matt!
etc. and then, what do you call a girl with no arms and no legs on a barbecue?
…patty!
the more i think about it, though, the more the mental imagery disturbs me. but maybe you could still use them. good luck!
OK, I tried it out loud, and I tried it softly to myself, and I tried it on the kids and I tried kneeling down and praying it to the heavens, but I STILL DON’T GET IT.
Colour me thick perhaps, or, better still, pleeeease tell me what I’m missing here!!