{"id":105,"date":"2004-07-28T08:06:27","date_gmt":"2004-07-28T13:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summerofjim.com\/?p=105"},"modified":"2005-12-16T08:16:34","modified_gmt":"2005-12-16T13:16:34","slug":"a-worthy-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"A Worthy Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yep&#8230; the jokes are running like the bluefish in Long Island Sound. What can I say? Feast or famine I suppose. But as High Minister of Vulgar Jokes (a State Government Bureau, I might add&#8230; accountable to no one, not even the Governor&#8230; which would lead some to ask how did I get this appointment), I am on the look out for the best for my constituents in this State and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>But as the Bard said, <em>&#8220;Pride falleth before the man<\/em>&#8220;&#8230; now in fact it may not have been the Bard who said that&#8230; it could have been the Bible, or some historical figure who spoke with a lisp&#8230; but I love to quote Shakespeare and as a consequence attribute at least 85% of the fancy things I say to him regardless of the accuracy. <\/p>\n<p>Yes &#038; now where was I? Oh yes&#8230; the only thing about this joke stuff is that with so much that flies across the internet it is hard to put something original out for distribution. That&#8217;s where the &#8220;pride&#8221; part comes into play&#8230; I don&#8217;t want you to think I am just the sort of guy who hits the &#8220;forward&#8221; button on jokes I receive (or in some other way steal) without adding my own flavouring&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Be assured that the following is funny&#8230; it comes from the Second Act of Shakespeare&#8217;s great Comedy <em>As You Like It.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!! <\/p>\n<p><strong>A young man, anxious for some sexual exercise, picked up a bombshell while strolling thru Central Park, unaware that she was a nymphomaniac. He took her to a nearby hotel. <\/strong><strong><\/p>\n<p>And after six times she was still screaming for more. After the seventh, exhausted and spent, he slipped out of the room on the pretense of buying cigarettes. <\/p>\n<p>He ducked into the men\u2019s room in the lobby, unzipped his fly and couldn&#8217;t find anything. <\/p>\n<p>In a panic he reached inside his boxers. His pride and joy was still there; but tiny and all drawn up. In a soothing voice he whispered, &#8220;<em>It&#8217;s all right. You can come out now. She&#8217;s not here!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep&#8230; the jokes are running like the bluefish in Long Island Sound. What can I say? Feast or famine I suppose. But as High Minister of Vulgar Jokes (a State Government Bureau, I might add&#8230; accountable to no one, not &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/?p=105\">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-105","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\/105","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=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}