This Is Me--2024 A to Z Theme

My A to Z Themes in the past have covered a range of topics and for 2025 the theme is a random assemblage of things that are on my mind--or that just pop into my mind. Whatever! Let's just say I'll be "Tossing It Out" for your entertainment or however it is you perceive these things.
Showing posts with label jokes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jokes. Show all posts

Saturday, April 11, 2015

Jokes and Jesus (Elements of Blogging) #AtoZChallenge




      There are numerous blogs that feature Hump Day humor, Friday Follies, Silly Saturdays or other special blogging days devoted to jokes and humor.  There are even blogs where humor is the specialty and that is all you will ever find.  I've found some wonderfully funny jokes on blogs.  A well told joke on a blog is a welcomed find when I've been perusing a number of blogs that weren't at all funny.  A special treat is when I find a joke on a blog that tickles me so much that I have to go tell someone else.    That someone is usually my wife.  Sometimes she gets the jokes that I tell her and sometimes she doesn't.   I can botch a joke pretty badly.  However there are some blogs that present jokes very well.

       On a more serious note, Jesus blogs are very common in the blogosphere.  There are all sorts of blogs about religion or against religion.  Whatever you may believe you can undoubtedly find a blog expressing your belief.   If Jesus is what you want to read about then those blogs are easy to find and many of them are very well written.  Some are very simple homilies while others provide in depth studies on topics about Christianity.  If you feel convicted to write about Jesus then you might want to start your own blog about whatever it is you believe about Jesus.

      And  let us not forget juggling!   There are blogs about actual juggling and then there are blogs such as Tossing It Out that use juggling as a metaphor.  In case you didn't notice in my profile, I consider myself to be "A juggler of words and phrases" and that's because I have actually been a professional juggler in my working life.  Sometimes I still talk about juggling on my blog, but my blog is only a metaphorical juggling blog.

       There are many "J" blog topics that I didn't mention--which ones can you think of?   Do you ever tell jokes on your blog?   Have you ever read a joke on a blog that you told to someone else?


Bloggers for Jesus:

Living for God

Gospel Driven Disciples

Just another Christian Woman Talking Through Her Hat

Christy Bower
     

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

The Bad Humor Man

Vintage Good  Humor Truck
Vintage Good Humor Truck (Photo credit: Adam Kuban)

           When I was a kid a tidy looking ice cream truck would troll the neighborhoods during summer with a chipper looking fellow in a clean neat white uniform behind the wheel.  When he'd come to a grouping of kids waiting by the curbside anxious for his frozen treats, he'd pull over and dispense the goodies to the children for a few coins.  He was the Good Humor Man.

             The Good Humor Man is now a page from nostalgia.   In my neighborhood we now have bigger more rickety looking trucks with tawdry decals on the side advertising their array of goodies.  Or there is an army of Mexican pushcart vendors who disperse on foot each morning throughout the neighborhoods surrounding a central ice cream dispensary.

           I miss the neatness and dependable schedule of the Good Humor Man.  He has gone the way of the milkman, the bread delivery truck, the dry-cleaning delivery service, and the Fuller Brush Man.

          But never fear, the bad humor man is here.  I occasionally come up with short humorous tweets when I get in a weird mood.   Today here's a joke that wouldn't fit in a tweet.  I think I made it up.

         A guy goes to his doctor because of an infected leg.  After the examination the doctor says, "Well, I've got some good news and I've got some bad news."
         Fearful, the man asks, "What's the bad news?"
         The doctor replies somberly, "I'm afraid there's nothing we can do to save your leg.  We're going to have to amputate it."
         "So what's the good news?" the guy asks.
         The doctor beams, "We're having a two for one sale on amputations this week."
          
           Hey, I'm wearing my summer shorts today.  You should be happy you're just seeing the joke in print!

           Did you have delivery services like ice cream trucks, milkmen, and dry cleaners in your neighborhood when you were growing up?   Are there any of these types of businesses that come through your neighborhood now?   Do you like slightly warped humor?