At Random

This comes from yet another one of our Joke Meisters, Jeanette Scollard Hester, Chairman (person?) of Hester Foods in Carlsbad California.

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There was good joke flow last month, particularly after the market turned up in mid-December. I made a number of deposits in the joke bank, but here is a sampling of what came in.

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This comes from Lori Amundson, a friend of The Leuthold Group’s Mark Murphy. She insisted it was a sure winner. Yes, it is on the sick side and may offend some readers. But then, most Irish humor does.

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Michael Hirsch included this message with his following October entry “I have the spot on my office wall already picked out for Blue #2.”

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This month’s winner comes from Bob Alder, at Tempest Isenhart in Denver. Perhaps I am unduly influenced by the book I am currently reading. The story involves Blackbeard, the most successful and ruthless pirate ever.

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Overall, joke flow was very poor in August. I suspect vacation time and the depressing stock market were significant factors.

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This comes from the Joke Meister, Wilson Cameron Robinson residing in Plymouth, Minnesota. This makes “Wils” a four time Blue Ribbon winner.

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This joke comes from Don Gher, at Coldstream Capital Management. Don has won a number of Blue Ribbons and may be close to matching the fabled Joke Meister, Walter Deemer.

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This month’s winner is John McGinley, the proprietor of Technical Trends in Wilton, Connecticut. John is a frequent contributor but usually his humor does not make it by our Commissioner of Good Taste.

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In April, readers sent in an unusually large amount of material relating to gender differences. The two runner-up jokes also involve the battle of the sexes.

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Some jokes are point of view jokes, reflecting resentment toward government and government programs. I find that Republicans like to tell these jokes to each other, but do not risk these jokes in mixed economic company.

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This month’s winner came from Don Gher at Coldstream Capital in Bellevue, Washington. I am not wild about golf jokes and I am sick of genie jokes, but technically this is not a genie joke. It is a leprechaun joke.

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Last month, a reader providing required photographic evidence, claimed the title of "the greatest Joke Meister of all". 

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Joke flow was on the scanty side this holiday period, so this month it's a trip to the Joke Bank.

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This comes from one of the world’s greatest joke meisters, Master Putter, Wils Robinson residing in Plymouth, Minnesota. (Occasionally, one of his jokes is even printable.)

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This winner was told by Jim Fraser, Impresario at last month’s Contrary Opinion Forum in Vermont. We will be sending the November Blue Ribbon to Jim.

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This issue’s “View” seems to include an inordinate number of church and religion related items. In keeping with this purely accidental theme, I am also limiting this month’s Joke of the Month to jokes involving religion.

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This issue, two jokes from the Left Coast are featured. The winner was sent in August by Celia Chapman (Hughes Investment Management), Culver City, California...I suspect very few of you have heard it.

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Even though this month’s winner is Ruggs Cote here at The Leuthold Group, this was not a home town decision. An impartial outside judge was retained in order to insure complete objectivity and impartiality.

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This month's winner was sent in by Peter DeOteris at Weeden, but he was given the joke by Sharad Sethia, who works on the Weeden foreign desk. The Blue Ribbon goes to Sharad, a first time winner.

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