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Yes, these are no doubt circulating through inboxes worldwide yet laughter is good.
Subject: That’s how the fight started
One year, a husband decided to buy his mother-in-law a cemetery plot
As a Christmas gift. The next year, he didn’t buy her a gift.
When she asked him why, he replied, “Well, you still haven’t used the
gift I bought you last year!”
And that’s how the fight started…..
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My wife walked into the den & asked “What’s on the TV?”
I replied “Dust”
And that’s how the fight started…..
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A woman is standing nude, looking in the bedroom mirror.
She is not happy with what she sees and says to her husband,
‘I feel horrible; I look old, fat and ugly. I really need you to pay me
a compliment.’
The husband replies, ‘Your eyesight’s damn near perfect.’
And that’s how the fight started…..
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My wife was hinting about what she wanted for our upcoming
anniversary. She said, ‘I want something shiny that goes from
0 to 200 in about 3 seconds.
I bought her a scale.
And that’s how the fight started…..
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I asked my wife, ‘Where do you want to go for our anniversary?’
It warmed my heart to see her face melt in sweet appreciation.
‘Somewhere I haven’t been in a long time!’ she said.
So I suggested, ‘How about the kitchen?’
And that’s when the fight started….
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My wife and I are watching Who Wants To Be A Millionaire while
we were in bed. I turned to her and said, ‘Do you want to have sex?’
‘No,’ she answered.
I then said, ‘Is that your final answer?’
She didn’t even look at me this time, simply saying ‘Yes.’
So I said, ‘Then I’d like to phone a friend.’
And that’s when the fight started….
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I tried to talk my wife into buying a case of Miller Light for $14.95.
Instead, she bought a jar of cold cream for $7.95. I told her the beer
Would make her look better at night than the cold cream.
And that’s when the fight started…..
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I took my wife to a restaurant. The waiter, for some reason,
took my order first. ‘I’ll have the strip steak, medium rare, please.’
He said, ‘Aren’t you worried about the mad cow?’
‘Nah, she can order for herself.’
And that’s when the fight started.
Well, here’s one that bashes men…….
After retiring, I went to the Social Security office to apply for Social
Security.
The woman behind the counter asked me for my driver’s license to verify
my age.
I looked in my pockets and realized I had left my wallet at home.
I told the woman that I was very sorry, but I would have to go home and
come back later.
The woman said, ‘Unbutton your shirt.’ So I opened my shirt revealing my
curly silver hair.
She said, ‘That silver hair on your chest is proof enough for me’ and
she processed my Social Security application.
When I got home, I excitedly told my wife about my experience at the
Social Security office.
She said, ‘You should have dropped your pants. You might have gotten
disability, too.’
And then the fight started…..
Get over it Anna. You are serious. Learn to laugh out loud and have some fun!! Those jokes are great! Jokes, get it? Jokes!!! it’s not supposed to be taken seriously. It’s all make believe, no one is actually insulted. It’s just a joke! Laugh and let it go.
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LMAO! Hilarious, thanks.
Thanks again Scott and Robyn…
Tell ya’ what Anna. I am not surprised at all. Sadly there are folks that want to make everything a negative and eliminate laughter and good fun. In turn they will use their perceptions to diminish others and their work. As you have attempted here.
It is really too bad that you see everything in such a horrible visual. But what would you rather me do? (it’s about control after all) Suspend my right to free speech – for you??? That’s not going to happen.
Have you noticed that others don’t see this the same way you do?
LOL Mark! My husband and I started our day courtesy of you with a good laugh! I think my favorite are the first and the last, though hubby really liked the scale one LOL!
Mark, I feel really sad about this and am still sort of surprised. I know about not taking myself too seriously, but these “jokes” are all really nasty and hurtful. Do you not realize that? That is what they are intended to be.
In the first one the husband is expressing disappointment that they wife hasn’t yet died, in the second dissatisfaction that she hasn’t cleaned a screen that he himself is sitting staring at, in the third a particularly hurtful, insulting joke about a woman’s body (imagine that joke being about penis length and see how funny you would find it), and the one about the beer is just sort of disgusting …. and so on.
I would never tell a “joke” about my husband or any man that was so belittling and insulting and I think you will find that “jokes” that a circulate on the internet are overwhelmingly of this type and very rarely (if ever) aimed a male vulnerabilities.
Your blog seemed so insightful and helpful to me, now this.
Every now and then I do, Mark. The title caught my eye and I was curious. I’ve gotten ridicule on my blog before about “Sexist” jokes. Funny thing is, they’re only sexist when they are about women…but jokes about men are ok.
Didn’t know you stop by Scott – thanks and much appreciated.
Anna, I’m sorry you don’t understand what humor has to do with recovery. Perhaps you are in the wrong place. Try Rule 62…
That was a great start to the morning. Thanks, Mark!
What on earth do all of these nasty, sexist, hurtful “jokes” have to do with recovery?
I have been reading your blog and I never saw anything like this before.