Article: The Mirth of Nations.(Book Review)

Article: ethnic jokes
A Dictionary of English Folklore;      283 words ...ethnic jokes. The English are not alone...having an active repertoire of jokes which rely for their point...has gradually given way to jokes about particular nationalities...assigned to particular groups in jokes, but the most common is stupidity...meanness or avarice. In England, jokes ...

Article: CITY PLANS A BAN ON ETHNIC JOKES AT WORK
The Boston Globe;  March 5, 1987 ;     362 words ......barred by law from telling racial or ethnic jokes on the job. Long Branch city administrator...directive outlining the ban on ethnic jokes at work will be issued tomorrow...insulting and demeaning" racial and ethnic jokes and remarks at work. The judge...

Article: JOKE'S ON HIM.(Living)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  August 29, 1992 ;     700+ words ......re direct descendants of jokes such as, How many (fill in...Depending on whom one asks, these jokes elicit chuckles and guffaws...complex reason: Women use these jokes as political weapons to seize...always been ridiculed by ethnic jokes, sexist jokes. The dumb men jokes, are ...

Article: Romans got the point of the joke; Ancient gags can teach us about past.(News)
The Journal (Newcastle, England);  March 12, 2009 ;     583 words ......collected and classified jokes, said Prof Beard. One of the jokes can be dated precisely to...Prof Beard said: While the jokes are not side-splitting, it...they can be quite funny. The jokes show that themes have survived...Irishman Scotsman type and ethnic jokes, said Prof Beard. ...

Article: Ethnic jokes reveal more ignorance than humor. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  January 13, 1994 ;     583 words ......not funny. Neither are racial and ethnic jokes. Today is the birthday of Dr. Martin...figured them out'' in your mind. Ethnic jokes reveal more ignorance than humor...taken too far. My objection to ethnic jokes has nothing to do with politics...

Article: Lawyer calls Ynet's ethnic jokes no laughing matter
Jerusalem Post;  March 18, 2004 ;     515 words ......03-18-2004 Headline: Lawyer calls Ynet's ethnic jokes no laughing matter Byline: HILARY...Seventy years have passed and the jokes of 'Hitler Youth' are recycled by...his 12-year-old daughter reading jokes lambasting Arabs, Russians, Poles...

Article: Ethnic jokes barred for N.J. city's aides
Chicago Sun-Times;  March 11, 1987 ;     377 words ......and whites, Jews and Italians, ethnic jokes are no longer funny - they are...insulting and demeaning" racial and ethnic jokes and remarks at work. During a two-day trial, Locust said that racial jokes about black people were often told...

Article: Recall ethnic jokes? Look who's laughing now
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  August 9, 2008 ;     584 words ......targets of our not- so-humorous jokes have changed along with the...snickering now? Our national ethnic jokes switched to Europe and some...Lastly, there were the old jokes about the lazy Mexicans. Looking...purposes. We express our fears in jokes as much as we show our disdain...

Article: The prejudice against laughter Anthony Daniels discovers why it is acceptable to find ethnic jokes funny after all
The Sunday Telegraph London;  October 6, 2002 ;     692 words ......that I fail to find such jokes funny: on the contrary, I...the received notion that ethnic jokes are inevitably the antechamber...Professor Christie compares the jokes told by Jews about Jewish women with jokes told by Australians about...case of Polish-stupidity jokes in America: ...

Article: Take these e-jokes, please
The Journal Record;  July 16, 1999 ;     700+ words ...How many jokes has Gary Lewis sent by e-mail over the last month? Like a lot of jokes that circulate on the Internet, it isn't even funny...Lewis said ruefully. "You start seeing the same jokes over and over again. So I try to do the right thing...

Article: Now BPO jokes!
PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.;  April 27, 2006 ;     608 words ...Now BPO jokes! Arvinder Kaur New Delhi, Apr 27 (PTI) As India...million pounds of cellulite annually!. These BPO jokes are the cool things doing round on the internet and mobile space these days. Jokes are a form of expression. When something is...

Article: JOKE'S ON THE ENEMY
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  February 17, 1991 ;     583 words ......the joke to someone else. The reason for some of the jokes is perfectly understandable. Saddam Hussein has been...Moving Objects -- well, they're entitled. But most of the jokes are told by us civilians back home, and make fun of...Germans remain one of the few nationalities about which jokes can be told ...

Article: Communism no laughing matter, but jokes were
Winnipeg Free Press;  July 6, 2008 ;     594 words ...The Economist Jokes under Soviet communism were not just a...collated some of the best, and best-known, jokes that were told under more than seven decades...telling or laughing at just one of these jokes could mean you died in a labour camp; there...

Article: Jokes as a projective technique: The humor of psychiatric patients
American Journal of Psychotherapy;  July 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ...This paper describes the use of jokes told by psychiatric patients as a projective...technique. The typical themes and styles of the jokes that were obtained are described, including...addition, the use of humor, especially jokes, as a projective procedure with both diagnostic...