How Do You Get That Way?
A Jewish sergeant at Camp Lee in 1918 was explaining to a rookie the command, mark time, in the following manner: “Foist you raise yer right foot six inches in de air and then bring the left foot alongside the right one.”
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“Lovely day, don’t you think,” said the man as he hit his thumb with the hammer.
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Two Swedes went to Ireland
To kiss the blarney stone,
But they couldn’t catch their lutefisk
Where the River Shannon flows.
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Willie, your face has changed quite a bit.
Yes, mother, dear, I’ve been washing it.
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A change of wives ofttimes improves one’s disposition.
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