Light laffs

[thoreau]

Or load the ship with ducks, since they float.

[dead_elvis]

[lunchstealer]

Kolohe scored early points on this one. First thing I saw about it.

[dead_elvis]

[JD]

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[dbcooper]

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[thoreau]

We uncles are the unsung heroes of family life. Without us civilization would fall.

Or at least fewer kids would have awesome stories.

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[dbcooper]

Italians.

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[thoreau]

Cher would save George Floyd if she could turn back time.

https://www.tmz.com/2021/04/04/cher-geo ... ystanders/

[D.A. Ridgely]

[Kolohe]

The Hunter Biden squirtle pic is not particularly erotic, but it is hilarious.

The internet has informed me that "Hunter Biden Squirtle Sex Tape" is perfect TMNT scansion.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hunter-b ... e-sex-tape

[D.A. Ridgely]

[Kolohe]

There was a recurring Henny Youngman bit, directed at either the show host or the roast subject, that went

Thank you, Milton/Ed/Alan etc. I'm going to Israel, when I'm there I'll have a tree uprooted in your honor.

Can someone explain that joke?

[dhex]

It's thst trees planted in memory of loved ones, i'm presuming?

[Kolohe]

That's what I figured, I just never have come across it. Surprised it was significant enough Jewish-American mid 20th century tradition to be a punchline with no explanation for Gentile-included audiences. (and the internet doesn't have a ready explanation)

There's another punchline that goes 'kid, shut up and eat your cranberries' that the internet does explain (apparently a big carcinogen problem/scare that drew widespread public attention with some chemical they were using in cranberry bogs)

[D.A. Ridgely]

It's thst trees planted in memory of loved ones, i'm presuming?

I don't know whether it was connected with memorializing the dead, but when I was young and Israel was still a new Jewish state, paying to plant trees "in the desert" was a thing routinely done among American Jews and as a result American Jewish comedians from the Borscht Belt era made in-jokes about it.

I guess maybe the goyish equivalent was those little boxes they handed out in school every year for kids to save pennies to give to UNICEF? *shrug*

[Warren]

It's thst trees planted in memory of loved ones, i'm presuming?

I don't know whether it was connected with memorializing the dead, but when I was young and Israel was still a new Jewish state, paying to plant trees "in the desert" was a thing routinely done among American Jews and as a result American Jewish comedians from the Borscht Belt era made in-jokes about it.

I guess maybe the goyish equivalent was those little boxes they handed out in school every year for kids to save pennies to give to UNICEF? *shrug*

Pretty sure this is correct. I can remember Jewish kids talking about giving money to plant trees in the desert as part of expanding and solidifying Israel. I even think you're right about it being an annual nickle and dime fundraising deal.

[Aresen]

I know the 'plant trees to memorialize the dead' thing does happen, but I'm not sure if it applies in this case.

[D.A. Ridgely]

I know the 'plant trees to memorialize the dead' thing does happen, but I'm not sure if it applies in this case.

It's popular with environmentalists to have a tree planted on top of the dearly departed, but I don't know if its roots are Jewish.

[Aresen]

I know the 'plant trees to memorialize the dead' thing does happen, but I'm not sure if it applies in this case.

It's popular with environmentalists to have a tree planted on top of the dearly departed, but I don't know if its roots are Jewish.

I know there was a line of trees planted in England to memorialize Canadian pilots killed in the Battle of Britain. (There was a little foofahrah a few years back because the brits chopped them down to widen a road.)

[D.A. Ridgely]

I know the 'plant trees to memorialize the dead' thing does happen, but I'm not sure if it applies in this case.

It's popular with environmentalists to have a tree planted on top of the dearly departed, but I don't know if its roots are Jewish.

I know there was a line of trees planted in England to memorialize Canadian pilots killed in the Battle of Britain. (There was a little foofahrah a few years back because the brits chopped them down to widen a road.)

So now the road has three lanes?