6 Jokes From 19th Century America
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“It is one of the hardest things in the world to be funny,” an aspiring comedian said in an 1887 reprint of a New York Journal story about Marshall Wilder and other comics, “because while what you are saying may be awfully comical, yet the fact that a lot of canada goose uk black friday critical canada goose uk outlet girls and fellows are looking at you makes you feel and look frightened.”
That canada goose clearance fear didn’t stop Americans from telling jokes. Sometimes the quips were crude or cruel or racist or just plain humorless. Here are half a dozen buy canada goose jacket from the 1800s, lightly edited, that may still play well to contemporary sensibilities:
1870: While passing a house on canada goose coats on sale the road, two Virginia salesmen spotted a “very peculiar chimney, unfinished, and it attracting their attention, they asked a flaxen haired urchin standing near the house if it ‘drawed well’ Canada Goose Outlet whereupon the aforementioned urchin gave them canada goose coats the stinging retort: ‘Yes, it draws all the attention of all the d fools that pass this road.’ ” Daily Milwaukee News, May 21, 1870
1872: A man said to a preacher, “That was an excellent sermon, but it was not original.” The preacher was taken aback. The man said he had a book at home containing every word the preacher used. canada goose black friday sale The next day the man brought the preacher a dictionary. Daily Phoenix, cheap Canada Goose April 4, 1872
1888: There was a man whose last name was Rose. As a lark, he named his daughter Wild, “with the happy conceit of having her called Wild Rose.” But that Canada Goose Coats On Sale sentiment was “knocked out” when the woman grew up canada goose clearance sale to marry a man whose last name was Bull. Weekly Journal Miner in Prescott, Ariz., May 23, 1888
1890: Whatever troubles Adam had / No man could make him sore / https://www.getcanadagooseoutlet.ca By saying when he told a jest / “I’ve heard that joke before.” uk canada goose Philadelphia Times, Feb. 23, 1890
1896: A fellow tells his Canada Goose sale ma that there are two holes in his trousers and cheap canada goose uk then our web page tells her that’s where he puts his feet through. Cincinnati canada goose uk shop Enquirer, Nov. 1, 1896
1899: A man got up canada goose one morning canadian goose jacket and couldn’t find his uk canada goose outlet alarm clock, so he asked his wife what had canada goose factory sale become of it. She said, “It went off at 6 o’clock.” Salt Lake Herald, April 27, 1899.
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