The “funnies”

I think I’ve posted enough serious stuff on this blog recently … time for some chuckles … time for some funnies! 🙂

I remember as a kid that my brother and I would always ask our dad for the “funnies” section of the Sunday newspaper. Do you remember that? I sure loved the funnies. My brother did too. There were always two sections of the funnies in the Sunday newspaper so my brother and I got one section each and then we traded with each other when we had finished reading the section we had been given.

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Ok, now for the “funnies”…

Here are a few of today’s digital online “funnies”. Enjoy. 🙂

 

Groaner #1. A tourist in Vienna is going through a graveyard and suddenly he hears music. No one is around, so he starts searching for the source. He finally locates the origin and finds it is coming from a grave with a headstone that reads “Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827”. He realizes that the music is the Ninth Symphony and it is being played backwards! Puzzled, he leaves the graveyard and persuades a friend to return with him. By the time they arrive back at the grave, the music has changed. This time it is the Seventh Symphony, but like the previous piece, it is being played backward. Curious, the two friends agree to consult a music scholar. When they return with the expert, the Fifth Symphony is now playing, again backward. The expert notices that the symphonies are being played in the reverse order in which they were composed, the 9th, then the 7th, then the 5th. By the next day the word has spread and a crowd has gathered around the grave. They are all listening to the Second Symphony being played backward. Just then the graveyard’s caretaker ambles up to the group. Someone in the group asks him if he has an explanation for the music. “Don’t you get it?” the caretaker says incredulously. “He is decomposing.”

Groaner #2. Emmy Sue passed away so Bubba called 911. The 911 operator told Bubba that she would send someone out right away. “Where do you live?” asked the operator. Bubba replied, “At the end of Eucalyptus Drive.” The operator asked, “Can you spell that for me?” There was a long pause and finally Bubba said, “How ’bout if I drag her over to Oak Street and you pick her up there?”

Groaner #3. A nursery school teacher was delivering a station wagon full of kids home one day when a fire truck zoomed past. Sitting in the front seat of the fire truck was a Dalmatian dog. The children began discussing the dog’s duties. “They use him to keep crowds back,” said one youngster. “No,” said another. “He’s just for good luck.” A third child brought the argument to a close with this comment: “They use the dogs,” she said firmly, “to find the fire hydrants.”

One of the “Mark Trail” comics …