It Isn’t What You Used to Was

Here’s to the man of forty and past,

Who’s lived his young life and lived it fast;

And here’s to his wife of twenty-four,

Who kisses him sweetly and coaxes for more;

But all that he’ll do is to buzz and buzz

And tell what a guy he used to was.

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“Oi, Oi, Ikey, I’ve got a joke on you. You forgot to pull your vindow curtain down last night and I could see you and your vife all de time.”

“No, No. Abie, the joke’s on you. I vasn’t home at all last night.”

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When I was young and had some sense,

I tried to jump a barb wire fence.

—Mascot.

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Kissing a woman is like taking olives out of a bottle—get the first one and the rest come easy.

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