For People Who Can’t Tell a Joke, like me, hearing a good joke is wonderful.  But even hearing a bad joke is ok.  One of my colleagues tried to tell me a joke a day or so ago.  He is also a Person Who Can’t Tell a Joke, so I thoroughly enjoyed the agony he was going through to get this thing out.  I have no idea what the joke really was supposed to be, but it was something about a damn fish and some m-f butter.  He ended the joke with the requisite apology, that it was a much funnier joke if only he could have told the “beginning” part right!  I so totally know your pain.
I have exactly two jokes in my repertoire.  Actually one is a riddle.  (But I even mess those up, typically – usually putting some part of the witty answer in the question.  Yeah – you want to hear those things from someone else.  Trust me.)  And the other one could definitely be considered offensive to some…  Anyway – I have periodically attempted to increase this repertoire, and have made it to 4 or maybe even 5 jokes from time to time.  But the old memory thing just doesn’t work for this stuff, and I revert back to my two old standbys.  Hence, I don’t tell jokes.
But I like to listen – Those of you who are blessed with the ability to tell a good story - got any good ones?
7.21.2006
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I can't tell a joke either - I'm too impatient and want to jump righ to the punchline. So I'll tell the first line and then the punchline and then fill in the rest. Not so funny.
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