Word: joking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Specimen Yale Joke (from the News' supplement...
...very slender and wearing eyeglasses, reminded one of the picture I have seen somewhere of "an old baby." The child having gray hair and an old face and smoking a cigar, is represented with a bib on and tied into a high-chair. And certainly if a joke be the bringing together of two utterly incongruous elements in such a manner as to make them appear ludicrous, Miss Asphyxia was a huge joke. When young Butterfield came down stairs with his hair nicely oiled and parted, and brushed up on each side in the form of a pigeon-wing...
...Lampy, that's not right. We distinctly credited that forlorn joke about gym-jams to the Tiger. Are you afraid to claim it of a Tiger? Besides, the copyright on old jokes never runs longer than six months...
Again, in regard to a practical joke...
...full of mischief that they ought to be spoken to. We shall put some of them in the "Drawer" and shut them up. It has just come to our knowledge that the learned and distinguished president of one of our colleges has been made the victim of a practical joke, which we are induced to record with the expression of our regret that the boys will do such things. It seems that the worthy president went down to Virginia, where he was personally a stranger, to attend an ecclesiastical meeting at which many eminent ministers were to be present...