Fearfully Foxy (and other very lame antique jokes)

Fearfully Foxy

1916

"I work a foxy scheme on my boy. He'd rather wash the dishes than wash his hands, so I let him wash the dishes."
"What's the foxy part?"
"Why, he gets his hands clean." — Louisville Courier-Journal.


Very Promising

"Jones strikes me as a very promising young man."
"He strikes me that way too. But be never pays it back." — California Pelican


Talent is that which is in a man's power. Genius is that in whose power a man is. — Lowell.


Mutual Worry

Mrs. Call—"It's too bad of you. Ethel, to worry your mamma so." Ethel aged five, tearfully, "Oh, well, Mrs. Call. If you'd live with mamma as long as I have you'd know which of us was to blame." — St. Paul Pioneer Press


Poor Jack

Clara—Jack intends to have all his own way when we are married. Clara's Mamma—Then why do you want to marry him? Clara—To relieve his mind of a false impression.


Poor Man

"Is the man your sister is goin' to marry rich?" "Naw. Every time the marriage is mentioned pa says, 'Poor man!'" — Houston Post

—Stevens Point Daily Journal, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, July 29, 1916, page 3.