{"id":1079,"date":"2014-02-19T10:30:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T14:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summerofjim.com\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2014-02-19T10:30:23","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T14:30:23","slug":"courtesy-of-lynn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/?p=1079","title":{"rendered":"Courtesy of Lynn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hate to admit it\u2026 but I am finding <i>some<\/i> of these \u201cold people\u201d jokes that my sister keeps forwarding to me to be pretty good.\u00a0 I\u2019d like to think that the ones I laugh at are purely funny, rather than <i>I am getting to that age<\/i>.\u00a0 The joke included herein has a good punch line twist.\u00a0 Maybe I find this joke so funny because there is a TV commercial that is currently running featuring an elderly couple that I find absolutely hysterical\u2026 it\u2019s to the point where if I\u2019m out of the room when it airs, Sandy calls out to me\u2026. \u201cJim, come in here quick!! The<i> Swiffer<\/i> commercial is on!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It actually gets worse\u2026 at random times I have been known to get a sheepish grin on my face, and have to stifle a giggle.\u00a0 The other day, waiting at a red light, Sandy glanced at me and said, \u201cYou are either peeing in your pants, or you thinking of <i>that<\/i> commercial!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I nod, \u201cWould you be disappointed if I <em>wasn\u2019t<\/em> thinking of the <i>Swiffer<\/i> ad?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At no additional expense to you, in addition to Lynn\u2019s joke, I am including the YouTube link to \u201cMorty! Are You Listening?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>An elderly couple had dinner at another couple&#8217;s house, and after eating, the wives left the table and went into the kitchen.\u00a0\u00a0The two gentlemen were talking, and one said, \u201cLast night we went out to a new restaurant and it was really great. I would recommend it very highly.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The other man said, \u201cWhat is the name of the restaurant?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The first man thought and thought and finally, exasperated said, \u201cCripes! What\u2019s the name of that flower you give to someone you love?\u00a0You know&#8230; the one that&#8217;s red and has all those thorns?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you mean a rose?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, that&#8217;s the one!\u201d And then he turned towards the kitchen and shouted, \u201cRose! What\u2019s the name of that restaurant we went to last night?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Xw9Bp2AszNw\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Xw9Bp2AszNw\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Xw9Bp2AszNw<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate to admit it\u2026 but I am finding some of these \u201cold people\u201d jokes that my sister keeps forwarding to me to be pretty good.\u00a0 I\u2019d like to think that the ones I laugh at are purely funny, rather &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/?p=1079\">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-1079","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\/1079","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=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}