Limerick Ode To “Tell An Old Joke Day”
Happy Tell An Old Joke Day!” (July 24)
Limerick Ode To “Tell An Old Joke Day”
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Some men seem compelled to keep telling
Ancient jokes. There is simply no quelling
Their need to assail us,
Assault and regale us
With stale, endless tales uncompelling.
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Since I just flew in from Cleveland (And boy are my arms tired!), I feel the need to defend the old men of the world:
This old body of which I’m now owner
Tells a jokes that’s meant to be a groaner
To a youth’s not a gaffe
Often getting a laugh
Especially when he is a stoner.
It’s not only men that assuage us
With tired old tales of the ages
How sexist of you
To exclude women who
Do this too? For a Lib, that’s outrageous!
(Just check out the strip in Lost Wages.)