From the Hoover File
When Hoover invited the black wife of a congressman to the White House for tea, he was officially denounced by the state legislature of Texas.
Red Herrings
Cards, like women, are notorious for misleading men.
Pet Names
The change of M to P:
Mary – Polly
Margaret, Maggie or Meg – Peggy, Peg
Martha or Matty – Patty
The change of R to L or LL:
Sarah – Sally
Dorothy or Dora – Dolly
Harry – Hal
Daffy-nition
Stalemate: A husband with one joke.
Epitaph
From an ancestral headstone where the final “e” of the final word has long since weathered away. It now reads simply:
MY GOD SHE IS THIN
Hoity Toity
Edo: What follows the Symphonie Fantastique?
Bedo: Why, Carmina Burana, of course.
What’s in a Name?
Lalayan: Turkish in derivation, identified as a descriptive term, lala is defined as a servant placed in charge of a boy; tutor, pedagogue.
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