This includes (what is) Funny and Jokes, which may appeal to those with a refined (i.e. correct) sense of humor. You may also want to see the Thoughts (lighter fare) page.
Penmanship is important. As an undergraduate I sometimes received mail addressed to me as Irving Pitterman or Irving Potterman. These were not aliases, but interpretations of Irving P. Herman. (12/27/19)
They say that “Humor, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.” This is literally true since eyes include the vitreous humor and the aqueous humor.
Funny:
The serious copy on the radio was supposed to be: “If you feel like you are having a stroke, call our medical center …” It was inadvertently read as: “If you are thinking about having a stroke, call our medical center …” (as if it were a planned event).
Woody Allen playing the cello in the marching band in his Take the Money and Run, the courtroom scene in Bananas, and the mortician in the shower singing opera singer in his To Rome with Love.
The scene in the movie Tootsie when John Van Horn (George Gaynes) pushes his way into “Dorothy’s” (Dustin Hoffman) and Jeff’s (Bill Murray) apartment and Jeff comes home.
Peter Norvig’s powerpoint presentations of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address at http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/sld001.htm and his performance evaluation of Albert Einstein in the Swiss patent office in 1905 at http://norvig.com/performance-review.html .
The short movie De Duva (The Dove), a 1968 short film parody of Ingmar Bergman films (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X2QmLWWxq4). (Spoiler alert: in what language?).
Jokes:
After getting his annual physical checkup, a man told his wife “I have a prostate big enough for the both of us.” (5/24/20)
Never eat hamantaschen made by dentists. Why? Their fillings are too hard. (6/28/16)
I want to become a stand-up comedian, but because of lower back pain I can only become a sit-down comedian. (3/7/16)
Classic joke: Three older women meet for lunch. One says, “Oy.” The second says “Oy.” The third says “Oy.” The first chimes in with: “I thought we weren’t going to talk about our children.”
Revision of classic joke: Three older women meet for lunch. One says, “Oy.” The second says “Oy.” The third says “Oy.” Then the first chimes in with: “I thought we weren’t going to talk about our children.” Then, one says, “Ah.” The second says “Ah.” The third says “Ah.” Then the first chimes in with: “Good. I’m glad we’re now talking about our grandchildren.”
There are types of doctors. One practices internal medicine. The other practices dermatology.
When you go for your yearly dentist and doctor exams, you bring home a goody bag. Your dentist gives you a toothbrush. Your doctor gives you a stool sample collection kit.
(a longer list is under development)