Half a pair of buttoxes

[Jonathan Lighter]

Today's morons are far less clever.

  JL

Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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Q. How did the Little Moron get on the streetcar free?

A. He said, "My middle name is 'Crime' and crime does not pay."

When I was a pre-adolescent, I considered that to be the funniest joke
that I had ever heard. The next time that I laughed so hard, it was
about 35 years later and I was stoned out of my mind.

-Wilson

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Dennis R. Preston
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> Why go for them French guys when there are good examples in AmerEng?
> If you are as old as me Or close to it), you will remember the
> politically incorrect "Little Moron" jokes. One went like this:
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> Q: Why did the Little Moron saw his toilet seat in two?
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> A: 'Cause he heard his half-assed relatives were coming to town.
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> Sigh! Our lost humor.
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> dInIs
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> >Why, yes. Did you think my proscriptivist decrees arbitrary?
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> > JL
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> >Charles Doyle wrote:
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> >Like that character in _Candide_.
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> >--Charlie
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> >---- Original message ----
> >>Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 06:46:15 -0800
> >>From: Jonathan Lighter
> >>Subject: Re: crunk
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> >> And Grant, won't you help us protect the precision of our English
> >>language by restricting the use of "half-assed" to describe persons
> >>having but one buttox?
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> >> JL
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