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Amazingly Simple Home Remedies
  • Avoid cutting yourself when slicing vegetables by getting someone else to hold them while you chop.
  • Avoid arguments with the Mrs. about lifting the toilet seat by using the sink.
  • For high blood pressure sufferers: simply cut yourself and bleed for a few minutes, thus reducing the pressure in your veins. Remember to use a timer.
  • A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
  • If you have a bad cough, take a large dose of laxatives; then you'll be afraid to cough.
  • You only need two tools in life - WD-40 and Duct Tape. If it doesn't move and should, use the WD-40. If it shouldn't move and does, use the duct tape.
  • If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electrical problem.

Submitted by Julie, Middleburg, Va.
 

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What can ruin a restful evening.

You have had a hard day, so you sit in the easy chair ready for television and then......

  • A large television crew knocks on the door with a big cardboard check and a van with "Publisher's Shifty Magazine Outlet House" on it, and you doze off instead.
  • A bulletin comes up on the television saying that your car model has been recalled for unexplained explosions while parked in a garage.
  • Your dog gets stuck under the foot rest of your raised recliner and starts yelping.
  • You notice that the toilet is running for the past two hours.
  • A telemarketer calls and tells you that for only $15 a month, you could have dental root canal insurance.
  • Both of your cats decide to have a fight on your lap.
  • As you doze off, you hear about a fire in your town, and then you realize that burning house is yours.
  • Your radio finishes its program of "Musical Meditations" and now it's time for the ""Steel Drum Rap Hour".
  • Your last beer explodes in the fridge.
  • Your football game between the Vikings and the Forty-Niners has been cancelled due to no fan interest.

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Newspaper Headlines with Double Meanings

  • March Planned For Next August
  • L.A. Voters Approve Urban Renewal by Landslide
  • Patient at Death's Door - Doctors Pull Him Through
  • Queen Mary Having Bottom Scraped
  • Prostitutes Appeal to Pope
  • Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant
  • Killer Sentenced to Die for Second Time in 10 Years
  • Never Withhold Herpes Infection from Loved One
  • Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers
  • Reagan Wins on Budget, But More Lies Ahead
  • Panda Mating Fails; Veterinarian Takes Over

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Tidbits from someone who watches a bit too much TV
  • Only sympathetic people who are shot and killed are comforted by their wife or mother. Bad guys have no mothers or wives.
  • The Danny Thomas syndrome: A shocking event told happens when someone has a mouthful of coffee.
  • Lucy Riccardo never had tears when she cried.
  • When a bad guy is shot in the bar on the second floor, the railing always gives in easily.
  • A dog never urinates on a bad guy—only on the comic hero.
  • Black bad guys never seem to know the King's English—only know some eastern, southern African, Ghetto talk.
  • Indians talk like English with Indian accent. Tonto never learned good English from Kemo Sabe.
  • Until Jackie Chan came along, every oriental guy was as bad as Oddjob.
  • When someone dials a phone call, the sound at the other end is the same as phones forty years ago.
  • You know that a car is going to be wrecked if is being driven by the hero and it is not his regular car.
  • You know that an American sitcom is in trouble when they have to bring in John Cleese to play a lost uncle or a boss.
  • Nobody in a soap opera ever gets a full cup of coffee poured, and never gets to drink it.
  • Nobody on television has to go to the bathroom.
  • A scene in the bathroom is always about powdering their noses. There is hardly any toilet in sight—or heard except in "All In The Family".
  • It's amazing that Homer Simpson hasn't been put in prison for anything that he has done.

Submitted by Bruce, Carol Stream, Illinois
 

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Our Town Is So Small...
  • Our city limits signs are both on the same post!
  • The City jail is called amoeba, because it only has one cell
  • The McDonalds only has one Golden Arch
  • The 7-11 is a 3 1/2 - 5 1/2
  • The one-block-long Main Street dead ends in both directions
  • The phone book has only one page
  • There's nothing doing every minute
  • The ZIP code was a fraction
  • Second Street is in the next town over
  • There's no place to go that you shouldn't
  • A "Night on the Town" takes only 11 minutes
  • The mayor had to annex property to eat a foot-long hot dog
  • The New Year's baby was born in October

Submitted by Bill, Ardmore, Pa.
 

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If you're too open-minded, your brains will fall out.
  • Don't worry about what people think; they don't do it very often.
  • It isn't the jeans that make your butt look fat.
  • Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
  • My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
  • Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
  • It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
  • For every action, there is an equal & opposite government program.
  •  If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip.
  • Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.
  • A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel good.
  • Eat well, stay fit, die anyway. (Just remember how lucky you were to get a free trip around the sun.)
  • Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with it.
  • No man has ever been shot while doing the dishes.
  • A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
  • Middle age is when broadness of the mind & narrowness of the waist change places.
  • Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.
  • Junk is something you've kept for years & throw away three weeks before you need it.
  • There is always one more imbecile than you counted on.
  • Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
  • By the time you can make the ends meet, they move the ends.
  • Thou shall not weigh more than thy refrigerator.
  • Someone who thinks logically provides a nice contrast to the real world.
  • If you must choose between two evils, chose the one that you've never tried before.

Submitted by Dory, Pittsburgh, Pa.
 

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Quotable Quotes
  • God may have created man before woman, but there is always a rough draft before the masterpiece that." -- Anon
  • I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep. That's deep enough. What do they want, an adorable pancreas? -- Jean Kerr
  • You become about as exciting as your food blender. The kids come in, look you in the eye, and ask if anybody's home. -- Erma Bombeck
  • Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.-- John Wilmot (Lord Rochester)
  • A woman is like a teabag; you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water. -- Nancy Reagan
  • I hate women because they always know where things are. -- James Thurber
  • You can sort of be married, you can sort of be divorced, you can sort of be living together, but you can't sort of have a baby. -- David Shire

Submitted by Bill, Ardmore, Pa.
 

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You Know You've Booked a Cheap Flight When?
  • As you board the plane, you notice the co-pilot is frowning and wearing an "I'm with Stupid" T-Shirt.
  • The Captain announces over the intercom the Flight is delayed while he looks for his keys.
  • The Airline mechanics, wearing propeller beanies, seem to be pointing and laughing an awful lot, and drinking something from inside brown paper bags.
  • The Ground Crew are seen using pennies to check tyre wear
  • A man with an oily rag hanging from the back pocket of his dirty coveralls, and sadly shaking his head, turns out to be the airline's C.E.O.
  • A voice on P.A. system warns you to keep your heads and arms inside the aircraft at all times, while the plane is in motion.
  • Jumper Cables are dangling from the door to the cockpit.
  • A man in clerical garb walks thru the plane, sprinkles all the passengers with water, mumbling something in Latin & exits.
  • A telephone with a really long cord connects the plane to the control tower.

Submitted by Bill, Ardmore, Pa.
 

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The Symphony Orchestra Is Not So Good—Why?
  • There is a spittoon next to the podium
  • The oboe player’s last job was doing duck calls at a skeet shooting match.
  • The blond violin player was named first chair, so that the rest of the orchestra could continually ogle at her in the front.
  • The conductor’s last job was on the Baltimore and Ohio. Before that, he went to technician’s school to see if he could also conduct electricity.
  • The timpanist is famous for his stick technique and his kettle chili bake-offs during the concert.
  • The audience came to the concert when they were promised free beer in the lobby and a pinup picture of Loren Maazel.
  • They found wormwood in the double basses, and a transvestite in the soprano sax section.
  • The orchestra was promised a road trip in the suburbs. They got a concert smack dab in the middle of the I-40 and US-36 cloverleaf. Three cabdrivers attended it along with two fifth grade classes who were on the way to a zoo fieldtrip, and a plague of locusts.
  • The music of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms was replaced by Schwartz, Tinglehoff and Max the wonderdog.
  • At the last concert, the conductor, Yorky Snuggle beat the orchestra three falls to none. Snuggle will go on and take on the Albany Philharmonic in the playoffs.

Submitted by Bruce, Carol Stream, Illinois
 

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Thoughts From a Wandering Mind
  • I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don't know what to feed it.
  • I had amnesia once -- or twice.
  • I went to San Francisco. I found someone's heart. Now what?
  • Protons have mass? I didn't even know they were Catholic.
  • All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
  • If the world were a logical place, men would be the ones who ride side saddle.
  • What is a 'free' gift? Aren't all gifts free?
  • Someone told me I was gullible and I believed them.
  • Teach a child to be polite and courteous and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to merge his car onto the freeway.
  • Experience is the thing you have left when everything else is gone.
  • One nice thing about egotists: they don't talk about other people.
  • My weight is perfect for my height -- which varies.
  • I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not sure.
  • The high cost of living hasn't affected its popularity.
  • How can there be self-help 'groups'?
  • If swimming is so good for your figure, how do you explain whales?
  • Show me a man with both feet firmly on the ground, and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants off.
  • Is it just me--or do buffalo wings really taste like chicken?

Submitted by John, Emmitsburg, Md.
 

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How you can tell if your car dealer wants to unload that "lemon" on you:
  • They invite you to the dealership with flowers and candy and two tickets to the roller derby..
  • That car is the only one left in the showroom.
  • Trouble: The keys are missing, so they teach you how to hotwire.
  • The hood is a different color than the rest of the car. In fact a faint hint of lettering "Taxi" can been seen on the yellow part.
  • Two salesmen are wooing you at the same time, and the finance manager has baked you a cake.
  • The owner of the dealership is inviting you to dinner at his club.
  • There are doilies covering the urine stains in the middle of the back seat.
  • You are offered what you paid for your car in trade.
  • The usual 30-day guarantee has been replaced with a handshake with crossed fingers.
  • The dealer is out of business the second you bought the car and is driving it away. When you return it's "Joe's Dollar Store".

Submitted by Bruce, Carol Stream, Illinois
 

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You Know You've Booked a Cheap Flight When?

  • As you board the plane, you notice the co-pilot is frowning and wearing an "I'm with Stupid" T-Shirt.
  • The Captain announces over the intercom the Flight is delayed while he looks for his keys.
  • The Airline mechanics, wearing propeller beanies, seem to be pointing and laughing an awful lot, and drinking something from inside brown paper bags.
  • The Ground Crew are seen using pennies to check tyre wear
  • A man with an oily rag hanging from the back pocket of his dirty coveralls, and sadly shaking his head, turns out to be the airline's C.E.O.
  • A voice on P.A. system warns you to keep your heads and arms inside the aircraft at all times, while the plane is in motion.
  • Jumper Cables are dangling from the door to the cockpit.
  • A man in clerical garb walks thru the plane, sprinkles all the passengers with water, mumbling something in Latin & exits.
  • A telephone with a really long cord connects the plane to the control tower.

Submitted by Bruce, Carol Stream, Illinois
 

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Simple Questions, Complicated Answers
  • Why is abbreviated such a long word?
  • Why does monosyllabic have five syllables?
  • Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?
  • Why is a carrot more orange than an orange?
  • Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?
  • Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?
  • Why are they called apartments, when they're all stuck together?
  • Why do scientists call it research when looking for something new?
  • Why do they call it a building? It looks like they're finished. Why isn't it a built?
  • Why is it when you transport something by car, it's called a shipment, but when you transport something by ship, it's called cargo?
  • If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?
  • If price and worth mean the same thing, why priceless and worthless are opposites?
  • Is there another word for synonym?
  • Is it possible to be totally partial?

Submitted by Bill, Ardmore, Pa.
 

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Some Signs that your neighbor is over patriotic.
  • Fido is dressed in an Uncle Sam costume.
  • He is outside waving the flag even when a short "parade" of garbage trucks pass by.
  • His wife's maiden name was Betsy Ross.
  • He pays his taxes, and even advances the government a little for the next year.
  • He constantly calls his Congressman and offers him advice--sometimes twice a day.
  • He eats the Senate Bean Soup every day at lunch.
  • He publishes a newsletter and puts one next to your mailbox every day.
  • His stereo blares several renditions of "God Bless America" and "The Star Spangled Banner" out the window on the hour from 6 am to 12 am daily.
  • He stands before a holiday crowd and recites old Millard Fillmore speeches over a loudspeaker.
  • He eats only American cheese, Yankee Pot Roast, K-Rations, and of course, the supreme American canned meat--Spam.

Submitted by Bruce, Carol Stream, Illinois
 

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Sensible Observations
  • When I die, I want to die like my grandfather--who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.' --Author Unknown
  • Advice for the day: If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: 'Take two aspirin' and 'Keep away from children.' --Author Unknown
  • 3Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.' --Drew Carey
  • 'The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job, but if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it.. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house.' --Jeff Foxworthy
  • 'If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base.' --Dave Barry
  • 'Relationships are hard. It's like a full time job, and we should treat it like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they should give you two weeks' notice. There should be severance pay and the day before they leave you, they should have to find you a temp.' --Bob Ettinger
  • 'My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'' --Paula Poundstone
  • 'A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.' --Conan O'Brien
  • 'Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?? I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize, Oh my God.... I could be eating a slow learner.' --Lynda Montgomery
  • 'I think that's how Chicago got started. Bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go west.'' --Richard Jeni
  • 'If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.' --Johnny Carson
  • 'Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography.' --Paul Rodriguez
  • 'My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.' --Jerry Seinfeld
  • 'Remember in elementary school, you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?' --Warren Hutcherson
  • 'Bigamy is having one wife/husband too many. Monogamy is the same.' --Oscar Wilde
  • 'Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Afghanistan ' --A. Whitney Brown
  • 'You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, 'My God, you're right! I never would've thought of that!'' --Dave Barry
  • Do you know why they call it 'PMS'? Because 'Mad Cow Disease' was taken. -- Unknown, presumed deceased
  • 'Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer.' --W. C. Fields

Submitted by former Emmitsburg Mayor Ed!
 

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How to tell if the restaurant is not first rate
  • The Master Chef is always sitting down reading "The Racing Forum". His culinary arts degree is from Horn and Hardart.
  • All of the first six booths are occupied by the wait staff-taking naps.
  • There is more food in the dumpster than in the restaurant.
  • The menu has white-out under the hand-written prices.
  • Only cars from the health department is parked in the front The owners are in jail.
  • You need a password to get in the front door. (Not "Swordfish!.")
  • Nobody has need to shovel out the front door in the winter (nobody uses it anyway).
  • The truck from the dog pound is parked there every Monday morning.
  • The restaurant sign outside hasn't worked in two years.
  • Truckers never stop there.
  • You need to bring litmus paper to test the coffee.
  • There is a sign outside that says "Lion Club now meets at McDonalds-two doors down".
  • Even the cooks leave for lunch.
  • Nobody seems to be eating, they are there to watch the soap operas in the afternoon.
  • Sign says "Tour Busses Needed--free meal for bus driver".
  • There are rumors that the place is haunted with the ghost of your old Army cook from 'nam.
  • They prefer to use paper plates instead of china, and they continually wash the plastic cutlery.
  • They are always inviting nursing home residents over for "tea and trumpets".
  • The cook died three weeks ago, and nobody knows the nationality of who is back there now, except that he has a strange wart.
  • The garbage truck in the back is making a delivery.

Submitted by Bruce, Carol Stream, Illinois
 

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