Oh, Mommer, Boil My Socks
We’ve heard a lot of boarding house jokes, but the one our hired man, Gus, tells is the prize winner.
Gus was boarding in Chicago once where they had no napkins. Whenever Gus wanted to wipe his fingers he called the shaggy Newfoundland dog and rubbed them in the dog’s hair. Saturday night the cook washed the dog and Sunday morning they had soup.