Kryponite and garlic

[Joel S. Berson]

Well, I did what I was too lazy earlier to do myself.  Google Books
has three works with "grape" and joke[s]" in their titltes:

Alexander the Grape fruit and vegetable jokes,  By Charles Keller
(1982), which gives us another:
      "What's a raisin?'  "A worried grape".
Look out! Here come the raisinbusters!: the great grape joke book, By
Jovial [yes, capital J] Bob Stine (1988).
      and a multi-racial collection:
More Worlds Worst Elephant Jokes Plus Grape and Pickle Jokes, By
Roger Price, Larry Sloan (1972).

Joel

At 1/4/2010 10:33 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>I don't recall any book of grape jokes. I may have heard a few others, e.g.,
>"What's purple and sacks Rome?" "Attila the Grape."
>
>"What are the angriest fruits?" "The grapes of wrath."
>
>But at this stage I can't swear that I didn't just make those up.  Easy and
>fun!
>
>JL
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>On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > At 1/4/2010 08:58 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > >Hey, what's huge and purple and lives at the bottom of the sea?
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> > >It was so hilarious in 1964 I can't even write it!
> >
> > Moby Grape?  (Jon, was there a book of grape jokes?  I can't remember.)
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> > Joel
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