# Jokes that Used to be Funny **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 20, 2019, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-used-to-be-funny/837330 "2019-07-20T00:58:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-used-to-be-funny/837330/101 "2019-07-25T17:42:25Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Oh, I heard of that dude. Didn’t he get fired for making a joke about hiring a “Jew and two cripples”, or something like that? There was a departmental committee and Watt referring to it in a speech, where he said, _“I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple. And we have talent.”_ ---
**Author:** ![Daveno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@Daveno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daveno)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-used-to-be-funny/837330/102 "2020-05-28T15:05:11Z")
A friend of mine who is in his 50’s told me that “beigh gay” used to mean “being happy or cheerful”, but nowadays not everyone take this compliment straight 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-used-to-be-funny/837330/103 "2020-05-28T15:30:30Z")
One more Challenger joke: Q. What does Christa McAuliffe teach? A. She used to teach English, but now she’s history. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-used-to-be-funny/837330/104 "2020-05-28T15:35:34Z")
How did the insurance agent get AIDS? He got a piece of the Rock. How did the country singer get AIDS? He was looking for love in all the wrong places. Did you hear about the farm hand who accidentally swallowed a bullet? He was jerking off behind the barn and shot a cow. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-used-to-be-funny/837330/105 "2020-05-28T17:48:06Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > Did you hear about the farm hand who accidentally swallowed a bullet? > He was jerking off behind the barn and shot a cow. I’m not getting this 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-used-to-be-funny/837330/106 "2020-05-28T17:52:15Z")
He ejaculated the bullet as if it had been fired from a gun and it hit a nearby cow. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-used-to-be-funny/837330/107 "2020-05-28T18:23:19Z")
[“Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap.”](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-joke-odd/worlds-oldest-joke-traced-back-to-1900-bc-idUSKUA14785120080731) ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-used-to-be-funny/837330/108 "2020-05-28T18:37:34Z")
I’ve never seen what the attempt at humor even is there, though. Aside from sniggering at bodily functions, is it also poking fun of people who let themselves be more natural in the context of a committed relationship? ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-used-to-be-funny/837330/109 "2020-05-28T18:40:16Z")
Yeah, I don’t really get it either. Maybe it’s funnier in the original Sumerian? But the title of the thread is “Jokes that Used to be Funny”. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-used-to-be-funny/837330/110 "2020-05-28T18:52:48Z")
Agreed, it’s not that great and I think the joke is basically exactly what you said: Women be farting! snigger snigger Apparently, another ancient sumerian joke is “A dog walked into a tavern and said, ‘I can’t see a thing. I’ll open this one.” which is frustrating because clearly that’s not funny so what aspect of ancient sumerian culture are we missing and also fascinating that sumerians enjoyed the “X walked into a bar” construction too. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-used-to-be-funny/837330/111 "2020-05-28T19:25:13Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Agreed, it’s not that great and I think the joke is basically exactly what you said: Women be farting! snigger snigger > > Apparently, another ancient sumerian joke is “A dog walked into a tavern and said, ‘I can’t see a thing. I’ll open this one.” which is frustrating because clearly that’s not funny so what aspect of ancient sumerian culture are we missing and also fascinating that sumerians enjoyed the “X walked into a bar” construction too. I’ve seen some discussion of this at another website! Somebody suggested that it might be wordplay on the name of a specific drink that has been lost to history, and offered up “Bartender, give me a Cur’s Light” as a possible modern-day equivalent 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-used-to-be-funny/837330/112 "2020-05-28T19:27:15Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > He ejaculated the bullet as if it had been fired from a gun and it hit a nearby cow. But you can’t ejaculate something you swallow. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-used-to-be-funny/837330/113 "2020-05-28T19:35:02Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > Yeah, I don’t really get it either. Maybe it’s funnier in the original Sumerian? > > But the title of the thread is “Jokes that Used to be Funny”. [It’s still funny.](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/02/ec/bb/02ecbbebc41a4d380e8972da94d5fa0f.png) ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-used-to-be-funny/837330/114 "2020-05-28T20:55:19Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > But you can’t ejaculate something you swallow. Sure you can. Which is why a true gentleman regularly drinks pineapple juice. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-used-to-be-funny/837330/115 "2020-05-28T21:28:42Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > Sure you can. Which is why a true gentleman regularly drinks pineapple juice. 😃 True gentlemen ejaculate pineapple juice? Uh…I have to go search for something on the Internet ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-used-to-be-funny/837330/116 "2020-05-28T21:32:55Z")
Q: Why were the Kennedys such poor boxers? A: They just couldn’t take a shot to the head. Q: What do Little Miss Muffet and Saddam Hussein have in common? A: They both have Kurds in their way. [curds in their whey] ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-used-to-be-funny/837330/117 "2020-05-28T21:37:27Z")
Michael Jackson thought that Boys II Men was a delivery service. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-used-to-be-funny/837330/118 "2020-05-28T22:49:21Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > When it was reported that Reagen would-be assassin John Hinkley Jr. was corresponding with Lennon assassin Mark David Chapman, someone remarked “Maybe Chapman can show Hinkley how to improve his aim.” Another from the Reagan assassination attempt: Q. Name Reagan’s favorite vegetable. A. James Brady ---
**Author:** ![X.L.Lent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a5b964/32.png) [@X.L.Lent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X.L.Lent)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-used-to-be-funny/837330/119 "2020-05-28T23:03:49Z")
Did you hear about Colonel Sanders? He kicked the bucket. (This appeared after Kentucky Fried Chicken founder Harlan Sanders passed away in 1980). What’s the difference between Michael Jackson and Richard Pryor? Jackson got burned by Pepsi, Pryor got burned by coke. (Jackson got burned by fireworks while making a Pepsi commercial, Pryor got burned while freebasing cocaine in the early 80’s) This song was funny at the time it came out in 1983 but the events of the past couple of decades have changed that: [The Homecoming Queen’s Got a Gun](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG3yGdQYwqg) ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Gay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@Enola\_Gay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Gay)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-used-to-be-funny/837330/120 "2020-05-29T01:00:57Z")
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