Toaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories, and QuotationsHarold Workman Williams H.W. Wilson, 1916 - 483 pages |
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... question over which the philosophers may wrangle . Is there an Absolute in the realm of humor , or must our jokes be judged solely by the pragmatic test ? Congreve once told Colly Cibber that there were many witty speeches in one of ...
... question over which the philosophers may wrangle . Is there an Absolute in the realm of humor , or must our jokes be judged solely by the pragmatic test ? Congreve once told Colly Cibber that there were many witty speeches in one of ...
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... question , " How old is the boy ? " After being told the correct age , which did not require a fare , the conductor passed on to the next person . The boy sat quite still as if pondering over some question , and then , concluding that ...
... question , " How old is the boy ? " After being told the correct age , which did not require a fare , the conductor passed on to the next person . The boy sat quite still as if pondering over some question , and then , concluding that ...
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... question is , how did he do it ? ANCESTRY A western buyer is inordinately proud of the fact that one of his ancestors affixed his name to the Declaration of Inde- pendence . At the time the salesman called , the buyer was signing a ...
... question is , how did he do it ? ANCESTRY A western buyer is inordinately proud of the fact that one of his ancestors affixed his name to the Declaration of Inde- pendence . At the time the salesman called , the buyer was signing a ...
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... question , they agreed , in a spirit of fun , to leave it to the decision of a Chinaman who was seen approaching them . The matter being laid before him , the Oriental considered long and carefully ; then he announced in a tone of ...
... question , they agreed , in a spirit of fun , to leave it to the decision of a Chinaman who was seen approaching them . The matter being laid before him , the Oriental considered long and carefully ; then he announced in a tone of ...
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... question I am axed ? Cain , he went to de land o ' Nod just as de Good Book tells us , an ' in de land o ' Nod Cain gits so lazy an ' so shif'less dat he up an ' marries a gal o ' one o ' dem no ' count pore white trash families dat de ...
... question I am axed ? Cain , he went to de land o ' Nod just as de Good Book tells us , an ' in de land o ' Nod Cain gits so lazy an ' so shif'less dat he up an ' marries a gal o ' one o ' dem no ' count pore white trash families dat de ...
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