Comments on: Funny, Sad

Funny, Sad

Rumple — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:38:25 -0800

A sad update has been posted to this well-loved AskMe question.

By: divabat

divabat — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 02:13:57 -0800

aww...

By: mattoxic

mattoxic — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 04:05:23 -0800

Was sad, glad the thread was still open though

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 05:13:12 -0800

My condolences, sciurus. I'm glad she enjoyed the jokes.

By: ceri richard

ceri richard — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 05:53:16 -0800

So sorry to hear about your grandma sciurus but very glad you were able to share the jokes with her.

By: BitterOldPunk

BitterOldPunk — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:16:10 -0800

My mom has enjoyed these jokes, too. She actually supplied punch lines (unprompted) for about 20% of them -- proving that senile old ladies were once much fun at parties.

I'm sad your grandma died, sciurus. But I'm glad that that thread left her with a smile on her face. It's been a source of amusement around here since it was posted.

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By: cortex

cortex — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:08:01 -0800

Well heck. Rest in peace, Grandma Sciurus.

By: DreamerFi

DreamerFi — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:12:42 -0800

By: languagehat

languagehat — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:37:26 -0800

My condolences, sciurus.

By: LeeJay

LeeJay — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:47:32 -0800

Oh, sciurus, I'm so sorry to hear about your grandma. I'm grateful for the thread though. My own grandmother was the first person to tell me a dirty joke and loved them - the filthier the better. Some of my favorite childhood memories are of her jokes! (There are some I didn't get until I was well into adulthood - the gift that keeps on giving.)

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:13:30 -0800

Damn.

By: Phire

Phire — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:30:20 -0800

I'm sorry to hear about this, but it's so sweet that she did get a few laughs...

By: Bookhouse

Bookhouse — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:32:26 -0800

When my grandfather was on his deathbed, I went to visit him. He started talking about going to see a Cards game in St. Louis with me and my father when I was ten, something I vaguely remembered. He went on to talk about the night on the town he and my dad had had that night after I went to bed, during which he had his first raw oysters.

"They always said them raw oysters are aphrodisiacs," he told me, "but I don't know. I guess the first ten worked okay, but the last two were duds."

Grandpa told me a dirty joke on his deathbed. Damn I miss him.

Sorry to hear about your grandmother, sciurus.

By: Pants!

Pants! — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:42:20 -0800

When my grandfather starting getting senile (Alzheimer's) he started to talk about the red headed girl from his youth.

He was in the Army Air Corp in WWII and met my grandmother at a USO dance. They had a great time, became sweethearts, etc.

Then, he was transferred down to Texas to finish his training. Apparently, he met a gorgeous redhead while he was down here. Obviously, he eventually went back and married my grandmother (hence me). However, we didn't hear a word about her until the end, just before he forgot who we were. He would have never thought to mention a story like (or the one about getting a goat drunk in college) until he finally let his guard down, against his will.

While it was a sad decline, stories like this helped us meet him in a whole new way. I guess there's a certain beauty in our eventual demise.

By: hadjiboy

hadjiboy — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:19:02 -0800

Sorry for your loss sciurus; my grandmother passed away yesterday as well.

By: Rumple

Rumple — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:28:32 -0800

hadjiboy - very sorry to hear that. Would she have appreciated any of the jokes in that thread?

By: tommasz

tommasz — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:05:57 -0800

sciurus, hope your grandma enjoyed the jokes as much as we did.

By: schyler523

schyler523 — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:51:36 -0800