THE FAMILY JOKE BOOK
Stories and Jokes for All Ages

My mother thinks I’m so bright, she calls me “Son.”
     
     
      Question: What did the farmer say when he lost his tractor?
      Answer: Hey! Where’s my tractor?
     
     
      Corduroy Pillows! They’re making headlines.
     
     
      Question: Did you hear about the red ship and the blue ship that collided?
      Answer: They got marooned.
     
     
     
      Question: How did the boy fall off the 100 foot ladder and not get hurt?
      Answer: He fell off the bottom rung.
     
     
      A Grammar Lesson
     
      Am her dead?
      Is her went?
      Did her leave I all alone?
      Us can never come to she
      Her can never come to we,
      Oh, it cannot was!
                        —Tena Wierdsma, 1946
     
     
      Question: What do all dogs eat on their pizza?
      Answer: “Mutt”zarella.
     
     
      A Tongue Twister (Say it quickly.)
     
      Betty Botter bought some butter.
      But she said, “This butter’s bitter.
      If I put it in my batter,
      It will make my batter bitter.”
      So Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter
      And put it in her batter
      To make her batter better.
                        —Tena Wierdsma,1946