I have clear memories of getting back from a vacation and telling friends “It was great.You should be getting a postcard from me in a couple of days, you’ll see!”
My father used to buy a couple of professional strips of slides whenever we went in vacation and shoot one roll to show that we were actually in those places.
Damn. I miss slideshows.
Here is a joke that often requires explanation to those who would repeat it. “Take a long walk on a short pier”. Replace “on” with “off” and there’s no joke and no sense. Yet I hear it mangled so more often than not.
Look up ghosting with an HDR merge program. Still not workable in all situations but it’s a fun thing to play with.
I ran across a baseball jokes page on baseball-almanac.com the other day. Even allowing for specific-team jokes that are easily swappable for whoever’s in the bottom of the rankings this week, an astonishing number of them depend upon knowing who was famous for what scandal. E.g.:
Wade Boggs, Steve Garvey and Pete Rose are in a bar. A pretty woman walks by and Boggs says, “I’m going to ask her out.”
Garvey replied, “You can’t do that, she’s carrying my baby.”
To which Rose added, “You wanna bet?”
It’s a sad story, but a familiar one-- the railroad removes their branch from the main line, so the woman who owns the hotel has to pimp out her daughters to attract business and keep food on the table.
I remember when I was 5 or 6, the opening credits seemed so naughty-- those ladies in the water tower are naked outdoors!
Ever wonder how one woman could have three daughters who looked so dissimilar? And the blondes kept changing over the years!
Daughters, my eye! They were all local girls hoping to snare a husband and get out of the backwater that was “Hooter-ville”! (Talk about a dead giveaway!)
And because it uses the same system, Canada’s stuck with MB for Manitoba.
Miraculously, there are TWELVE states, provinces or territories that start with N and yet none conflict; they all make intuitive sense. Only Nevada is a little tricky at NV but that’s not too bad at all.
The Nebraska-Nevada thing did present an issue. Rather than have one be NE and the other…something else, the original setup was to have Nebraska be NB and Nevada NV (so NObody got the coveted NE designation). But AIUI Canada complained, because NB is the only thing that makes sense for New Brunswick, and I guess after a few years everybody got tired of mail going to Grand Island, New Brunswick and Moncton, Nebraska, and so after a few years the switch was made and Nebraska became officially NE.
Sorry, I meant *finger quote* “daughters”. 
I just heard that on TV the other day, or some other day anyhow, probably a month ago now but @RickJay just woke up the thread. I can’t remember what it was, but it passed by without notice. It’s now in the category of “I could care less”.
You could? 
Missouri was “Mo.” long before the two-letter codes were adopted.
I recall some guy without shoes was from there.
That guy who thought about the game? (the game, the game)
Yep, had a friend who taught at “NEMO” (NorthEastMOssouri State Univ.)
…what th’hell? I just looked it up to double-check, and they’ve changed their name!
There’s a town in northern South Dakota named Mobridge. I grew up 200 miles away and didn’t make the connection until I saw the name’s origin in a book: It’s where the railroad bridged the Missouri River.
The town’s name is kind of a joke. When the railroad was building the first building in the new town, the surveyor (or was it a postmaster?) asked “What’s the name of this town?” They looked around at the boxes labeled Mo. Bridge, thus the town’s name was formed.
Not to mention the guy who was off in Kansas City, Mo. while his girlfriend was kickin up some capers (“No!”)