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These are my jokes, except [E] by Erika Danko, [V] by Victor Shulman. Many of these date back to when Victor and I worked for Microstat Development Corporation, 1985-86. I wrote some of our bons mots in a book, but time has occasionally clouded the origin. But fear not, most of these jokes are of more recent stamp. Somebody else might have come up with these same jokes independently. I've been thinking in particular that obliterati might be a popular invention. I suppose it would be correct to google search each word before adding it to the file, but I'm lazy. Funny, eh?

Funny Stories From My Life - A Retrospective Blog contains some funny and perhaps embarrassing stories (not one-liners) from my life.

Dysfunky Dictionary

Say, have you seen dys funky dictionary of mine? [V]

Ab Flab Julius
Screwdriver colada. [E+J]
Axis of Evil
Folks who do as we do. *
Babel Studies
a comparative linguistics seminar on Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Latin and Yiddish [the mother tongue of the more recent Babel] [V]
BC
Where time goes backwards. It's Getting Worse. Where Yesterday is only a pleasant memory.
Blindfold Chess
The real cause of Crop Circles.
blue rice
a rice dish that is cooked during a blue moon, and eaten during another blue moon.
Bucolic
= bubonic + colic. What you get from too much countryside [V].
Bull Facking
instead of full backing, this is what you get in response to an untimely suggestion. [V]
Bull titters
dangerous murmured random useless disinformation. [E+J].
Bummer
Revenge of the Sit.
Busilessness
state of unemployment [V].
Butt webler
a dylsexic web butler [V]. Also butt welder.
Bux
a citizen of the USA.
bukh
buck
bucks
bush
butch - are all allowable pronounciations in Spanish
Cafesto
a boring way to tell people you're addicted to coffee.
Canada
lower on the food chain.
nothing there (Spanish)
Ceiling wax
highest level of secrecy.
Charitize
When a charity decides that an activity is charitable only after one of the participants pays for it. It charitizes the activity by reimbursing the amount paid and issuing a tax receipt for that same amount. Note: might not be legal in your jurisdiction!
Chocolotomy
it hurts so bad when you have to stop.
Cyclosporran
immuno-suppressant delivered on bicycle by a man in a kilt.
Dalai Lama
I'm confused. Is his name Fernando or Salvador?
Dalai Lambada
Dance 'til you can't incarnate no more.
Dog Blathering
[place marker, will require an mp3 or ???]
Dylsexia
when ngiths og wackbards.
Ebasion
when an ebay seller says he doesn't know if the computer works because he doesn't have the AC adaptor (or battery ...).
Eenie-mail
when a correspondent has several email addresses and you won't know which one works.
Eerietating
ghost story that has been told too often.
Effervescent memory
It's on the tip of my tongue. [E]
Elimart
place where you don't buy anything.
Episcopal
insence delivered direct from the medical laboratory to your cell phone.
Escape goat
Hallucinogenic prepared from Feta cheese blamed for all the world's ills [E+J].
Eternal Joy
Chinese cabbage that is slow to bolt.
Exo-Anthropology
the study of Little Green Men (LGM). The only subject without a subject matter [V].
Exoduck
somebody who withdraws from a chess tournament without advising the director.
Fentax
Take great photos while losing weight.
Flabulous
a chocolate dessert measured in kilos.
Flatscape
to landscape with no redeeming social or esthetic value. I did find a reference by Allen Carlson to flatscape as a noun in a similar sense, but I'm going to claim credit for the verb.
Foible
a fable told in a Brooklyn accent. (Such an answer on an English 9 test earned me scorn and rebuke from the teacher.)
Follic acid
an amusing trip.
Freon pawn
a pawn accidentally left subject to capture [invented by heaven knows whom at the chess club at Sentinel Secondary School].
Fujara (fuyara)
three seagulls wearing mufflers in an echo chamber.
Glasshopper
Disciple of the Drunken Master.
Goober Über Gruber
A sinus cold prostrates Hitler.
Haggasiz
the capital of Scottish Columbia (see Agassiz).
Klutzpah
bobbles R us.
Kokanee-wallah
A dipso Sasquatch.
Lawyer
guy you pay, not to lay, a wager.
Memorablooeeea
something to remember it by.
Mil Gracias
A thousand thanks (in Spanish). Grind me some coffee (in an unknown language).
Misteak
Faggots masquerading as tropical hardwood.
Moostake
When your car gets pulled over by the Livestock Inspector [E]
Moosteak
When your cow gets pulled over by the Chef Inspector.
Mootual
cow-to-cow.
Numb Nips
(when your lady puts Oil of Oregano on her face) what she gets when you kiss her back.
Nush
push in.
Obliterati
drunken poets and novelists.
Optimist
Someone who takes the No out of Normal.
Ralm
A cockeyed optimist (Apologies to South Pacific)
Oxymoron
occimoron
moron that is a pain in the neck.
hydroxymoron
fool in the rain [V].
moronate
the same fool, dry;
the unbearable foodishness of being;
a second term for the President.
9112
If I had your problems, I'd phone 911, too.
Notion
passes through the mind without leaving a forwarding address.
Noxide
harmful substance.
Partial Recall
movie which shows by people aged over 40 talk like Yoda.
Paul Pot
Peter Pan's evil twin. [V]
Pictly sstreaking
naked Scottish sprinter. [V]
Ping Pong Pain
Bouncing between the extremities of a dilemma, for example You can't live with 'em, and you can't live without 'em.
Pootual
dog-to-dog.
Procrastin
a time-release drug.
Procrastimate
to marry after 40.
Procrasamadhi
the state of Un-doing.
Procresamadhi
having so many children that you don't have to care for them.
Procrastinirvana
where the person who dies with the greatest number of unfinished projects wins.
Pult
pull toward you.
Purported
cat that teaches Transcendental Meditation.
Revelstoker
somebody who eats a lot of ice cream bars.
Salsequal
just as good at making salsa.
Salsequel
the last grain of salt.
Salsasequitur
the next bowl of salsa.
Sesquisalsasequitur
what happens when you eat a bowl and a half.
Self-extermination
self-determination + nuclear technology.
Self-extramination
death from overwork.
Selloon
watering-place for marketers.
Sexlax
Y'all come back now, hear!
Simul fodder
In chess, a rating difference of 750 or more points, so that the higher rated player has an overwhelming superiority (15 to 1 result expectation or better) whether the game is played one-on-one tournament style, or in a simultaneous exhibition.
Stephen
hen by marriage [V].
Stuporvisor [E]
barely living proof of the Peter Principle as it applies to zombies.
Sun Bla
Interplanetary ble-bop.
Tequila Mockingbird
when Malcolm Lowry met Harper Lee [E]. After adding this one, I did a web search. Tch tch, I should never do that. It is the name of a rock group.
Teslasterone
hormone which promotes complete belief in one's own inventions.
Tit Bull
Someone so useless, he's dangerous.
Tomatalzheimers
when you prepare three dishes for dinner and they are all based on tomatoes.
Travelling music
Ciao Béla Bartók.
Tsnownami
Another Canadian Winter.
Ultrascone
Device to measure how much Tea one can eat. [E, J]
Ulyanolin
the lotion that made Lenin look like a dictator, even after he had been dead for 65 years. Incidentally, in a Soviet-era dictionary, the word kommunizm (communism) was held to have no plural. Politics über linguistics. This was especially funny in Canada, where we had one Liberal Party, one Conservative Party, but as many as four Communist Parties (Albanian, Chinese, Russian, Trotsky-ite). How many communisms would you like, sir? Will that be on noodles, rice, rye, or black bread?
Unionizing
almost as good as gurlicification.
Vagion
the Yin particle. [E, J]
Vagisphere
area of much Yin. [E, J]
Vagosphere
place where not much happens.
Yummy mummy
Delicious Egyptian preserve.

Raucous Rock Group Names

A
Anais Ninja Turtles
Buena Vista Antisocial Club
A tropical forest where the musicians lie around in hammocks and sing to themselves. This might actually exist: I found three hits, but they were all in Norwegian.
Chernobyl Voles
Dog Latin
A group of this name actually existed. I remember hearing it on late night CBC. Also mentioned was a name Christopher Gorey. I really liked the music. Can somebody help?
Dog Yoga
Father Theresa
Glab Doglips
The canine version of Blue Rodeo.
Half Gospel
Hitler's Sisters
I Was Asleep
Mad Rapper of Rat River
Melmac Girls
No Time for Dolmades
Oedipus Tex-Mex
Placebo Suppository
Suicide Wasps
SyKoTiQ PiJuN
A roc group that struts
Systematic Death
Third Coming of Christ
Vegetarian Cannibals
Yog Doga

Delivered in a Churchillian voice: Never / in the annals / of human laziness / has so little / been accomplished / in the company / of so much complaint. / This day / will live / in infamy / so long / as free men / in their derision / have breath / to bellow / a laugh.
After not doing much for a long long time, I put in a 5-hour day of work.

Meanwhile Road by Don Ross, a travelling song for a mode of transport that has not yet been invented.

Old chessplayers never die, they just spend forever contemplating the next move. [E]

Old knuckleballers never die, they just float away.

If we did not die, they would have to kill us.

To have and to hold, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do us part; unless I get a better offer.


My one-line Hungarian poem, using three words and a surname:
Sör, Bor, Bor, Pálinka, Sör, Pálinka, Bor, Sör, Pálinka, Alföldi.
Sör is beer; Bor is wine; Pálinka is (apricot brandy) moonshine; Alföldi is the name of a porcelain (toilet) manufacturer.

Don't talk about buses in Hungary. The more you talk about them, the further away they get. The more you talk about them, the less people want to talk to you. [E]

Tiny Nudge is an oxymoron in Anglo-Hungarian. Nagy (pronounced nudge) means great in Hungarian. So the Hungarian leader Imre Nagy was Big Jim.

What do you get when you de-Magyarize a mad cow?
Jakob Creutzfeld.


Did you know how the most famous Austrian song lyric got composed? Richard Rogers was having breakfast and when he went to put milk on his cereal, he heard a distinct pop. That inspired the lyric: The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Müesli. It got changed by Oscar Hammerstein II, who as lyricist was jealous of his partner's inspiration. [E and J].

Why do they call eyeglasses specs?
Because people who wear them don't notice the specks. [E]


Did you know that dogs can time travel? That's how they can pee so much when you take them for a walk. They travel ahead in time (that's why it is so difficult to get their attention) to the next bowl of water.

Same old dam thing.
Walking the dog at Colliery Dam Park for the umpteenth day in a row. [E]

Scandinavians love their pets. In Sweden, every day is dog day.

What is our dog's favourite book of the Bible? Saint Mark.

The opera about the Queen and her favourite dog: Corgi and Bess.

Lemon tree very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet
But the lemon-flavoured snow cone is impossible to eat.
A lyric that just burst upon us like springtime as we were walking Caesar after the big snow storm.


The angry but noble pruner.
Marquis de Sawed-Off.


It's so foggy, I can't see my hand in front of my eyes, said the blind man, waving at the pretty girl across the street. [E]


It doesn't work. They said I'd win at Scrabble if I kept score.
Only if you are Saddam Hussein. (cf: oil for food scandal).


Just look at that! These people just let their dogs do anything! I wish the City would enfoce the $1000 fine.
Let she who is without shin scat the first scone.


Bored? Call Confuse-a-Dog. That's A-DOG-CONFUSE on your totaly rerephone.


Hello? 911? I have an emergency. I'm too walked to dog the stone.


This is 911. What is your emergency?
Woof!


Hello? 911? I have an emergency. I'm too bucked to scatter the whone.


This is 911. What is your emergency?
Um, if you guys don't show up in 5 hours, is the pizza free?


Could you send an ambulance? What, this is Dairy Queen? OK, then please send 50 Blizzards. We're having heatstroke.


In 2009, forty years from now, half the freaks smoking dope will be fascists. [this might be a quote]


She: We need to talk. About a date. For our divorce

He: How about September 11, 2057 ?

She: By then I will have lost my voice.

He: And I will have lost my ears. You will have taken them for earhole soup.


Why is there no Society to Prevent Vandalism? Because they have only one Vandal.


Cleanliness is next to godliness; godliness is next to chess; ches' is next to my heart. [J+E]


It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that sting.

Talking up spicy foods.


Joke Raising. Please submit your punchline to me. So far the pickings are thin:

A hungry person entering a vegetarian restaurant might say:


Are you scared? No, I'm not scared. I'm past scared. I'm putrified.


The bux stop here.
American tourist refusing to let his group be overcharged for a guided tour.


Thirty percent less rat
Than where you're at.

An optimistic tourism slogan for a clean but dull destination.


Nanaimo can't get enough. Not sated with three terms of Mayor Gary Korplan, we now have the Core Plan. Ai, corumba.


White Mandarins Can't Jump

The latest racial slur in the world of international sports politics.


Après moi, le déluge!

In high school they told us that Louis XV made the remark when asked about the future of France after his death. Though this indicates that it was Madame Pompadour's. Women are better with words, eh? It was the caption for a cartoon I never did (can't draw) of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Eliot Trudeau back-to-back with an elephant. If you like, you could write the word Patronage on the elephant.


What did the Quebec Premier become, one day before the transfer of power to the new Premier?

A 24-hour Landry.


Why do Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving on the second Monday in October?

Because by late November the turkey, and most everything else, is frozen.


Revello is the name of a popular ice cream novelty across Canada. It has vanilla ice cream on a stick, with a chocolate coating. Kids usually call one a revel. The lyrics of a pop song make more sense as:
Revel, Revel It's on your dress; Revel, Revel Your face is a mess. than the canonical Rebel ..., as discovered at
a misheard lyrics site. Back to the Revelstoke joke.


In the Tchaikovsky competition, what were the similarities between Klimov and Van Cliburn?

1. Names had same first syllables
2. Neither knew how to play the violin. [Old Russian joke, as told by V. We all know that Van Cliburn was a piano prodigy, but Klimov really was a violinist. The joke was a remark on the quality of the judging.]


What do you say when superheroes meet one of those heavy spiked rollers used to break up old highways?

Holy Flatman and Ribbon! [Chris Danko]


Pale expression of a great idea is when the printer ribbon breaks. [V]


If Life is like drawing without an eraser, then what is like erasing without a drawer?

Nothing is like ... [V]


Water is the universal solvent; Dynamite is the universal solution.


What were the similarities between General Kutuzov (Napoleon) and President Nasser (6-Day War)?

Each lured the enemy into the depths of his land and awaited the frosts. [Old Russian joke as related by V]


Which part of the brain controls mating behaviour?
The Parental Lobe.


Learn to Mate.
The catch-line of a spectacularly unsuccessful campaign for the chess club at Sentinel Secondary School, West Vancouver, circa 1966.


The Evolution of Love: from Kama Sutra to Kamikaze

A book title destined for oblivion.


Cooking Better with Hate

A book you won't see any time soon. Maybe it should be the name of a rock group.


I'd rather be horking

An unsuccessful T-shirt campaign.


Buzzing like a fly at the windowsill [E].


This is the moment when I take off my glasses to reveal my beautiful blue eyes. A tingle shoots down your spine. We clasp hands and melt into each other's arms, oblivious to the plate of squid chow mein oozing between us.


Why do New York pedestrians cross against a red light ?

To avoid being trampled.


What do you get when you add Bush to Bill Clinton?
Boil CNN Bullshi*. (rearranging the letters of the principals).


Chelsea the Cat is on 22/7.

That's 22 hours of sleep, 7 days a week.


How did the Mexican cat reply when the local townspeople thanked her for cleaning out the local rat population ?

El placer es meow.


Where does a lion go to get his hair cut?

A maneicurist.


What new thorn do you have for my crown? [V]

A scare of peas, bomplete with coots. [V]

Why would anybody bother? Department.
Within walking distance of Costco.--seen in a home real estate ad.
Meet Somebody Real--seen in email spam.
Avril Lavigne topless--seen in a newsgroup spam.


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