{"id":100,"date":"2004-08-03T06:53:37","date_gmt":"2004-08-03T11:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summerofjim.com\/?p=100"},"modified":"2005-12-16T08:15:33","modified_gmt":"2005-12-16T13:15:33","slug":"advanced-joking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"Advanced Joking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This joke is only available if you have previously completed the segments on &#8220;Accent Jokes&#8221;, &#8220;Jokes of the Southern Hemisphere&#8221; &#038; the Seminar &#8220;Rubber Barf: Marvel of the 20th Century.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><em>Or&#8230; for those humor seekers who have not lost the collegiate spirit of dodging course requirements, you may read the enclosed only if pay a small indulgence (hey, it was good enough for the Renaissance Popes, it works for me, too). <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Onward and upward&#8230; to the land of Ethnic Humor. And let me say, right away&#8230; if you can&#8217;t laugh at ethnic humor you may as well cash in your chips right now&#8230; you are probably the same type of person who thinks that someone who slips on a banana peel is not funny&#8230; further, you are probably leading a very unfulfilling life &#038; have trouble ordering the right wine for dinner. <\/p>\n<p>The important thing to remember about ethnic humor is that no group is sacred&#8230; everyone is open game. I am sure that if we try hard enough we can find many examples of folks who run counter to the stereotypes that provide the source for every ethnic joke&#8230; my point: <em>why bother? Life is complicated as it is&#8230;<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>And, without further delay (because we all\u00a0lead busy lives)&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<p>A Pole was suffering horribly from a horrific case of constipation and went to see his Doctor. The Doctor prescribed suppositories. <\/p>\n<p>A week later the Pole called the Doctor and said that he was still suffering, that the suppositories hadn&#8217;t produced the desired results. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Have you been taking them regularly?&#8221; the Doctor asked. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course I have!! What do you think I&#8217;ve been doing? Shoving them up my ass?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This joke is only available if you have previously completed the segments on &#8220;Accent Jokes&#8221;, &#8220;Jokes of the Southern Hemisphere&#8221; &#038; the Seminar &#8220;Rubber Barf: Marvel of the 20th Century.&#8221; Or&#8230; for those humor seekers who have not lost the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/?p=100\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ministry-of-jokes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}