Encyclopedia of Humor

Spinach flavored Rice Cakes.

Teeth removing Taffy

Metamucil in a straw

Ex-Lax Brownies

Caramel Covered Zucchini

Colored Crisco on a Stick

Hot steaming bowl of pumpkin guts

Chocolate Covered Prunes

A Handful of Red Man

Anything that ticks!

In-depth knowledge of bizarre pasta shapes

Unembarrassed to wear fur.

No need to worry about tax returns

Glorious military history… well, until about 400 a.d.

Can wear sunglasses inside

Political stability

Flexible working hours

Live near the Pope

Country run by Sicilian murderers

Ten things to do with a graduate Economics textbook

1. Press pretty flowers.

2. Press pretty insects.

3. Use it as paper weight on your already overcluttered desk.

4. Leave out in obvious places to impress uninformed undergraduates.

5. Mail to the White House as an intimidation tactic.

6. Give it a walk-on part in a boring European existentialist play.

7. Just throw the lousy thing away.

8. Leave out for the rain and other forces of nature to reckon with.

9. Read it, and weep.

10. Get a refund from bookstore so you can buy a weekend’s beer supply.

A grade school teacher was asking students what their parents did for a living. “Tim, you be first. What does your mother do all day?”

Tim stood up and proudly said, “She’s a doctor.”

“That’s wonderful. How about you, Amy?”

Amy shyly stood up, scuffed her feet and said, “My father is a mailman.”

“Thank you, Amy” said the teacher. “What does your parent do, Billy?”

Billy proudly stood up and announced,

“Nothing. He’s an economist.”

There is also a joke about the last Mayday parade in the Soviet Union.

After the tanks and the troops and the planes and the missiles rolled by there came ten men dressed in black.

“Are they Spies?” Asked Gorby?

“They are economists,” replies the KGB director, “imagine the havoc they will wreak when we set them loose on the Americans”