Day Brightener – Some Puns That Should Tickle Your Funny Bone

You can’t blame anyone else if you fall in your driveway. It’s your own asphalt.

-I’ve started telling everyone about the benefits of eating dried grapes. It’s all about raisin awareness.

-I’ve started investing in stocks: beef, vegetable, chicken. One day I hope to be a bouillianaire.

-If you boil a funny bone, it becomes a laughing stock. Now that’s humerus.

-I accidentally rubbed ketchup in my eyes. Now I have Heinz sight. 

-Did you know muffins spelled backwards is what you do when you take them out of the oven?

-Scientifically, a raven has 17 primary wing feathers, the big ones at the end of the wing. They are called pinion feathers. A crow has 16. So, the difference between a raven and a crow is only a matter of a pinion.

-I was walking in the jungle and saw a lizard on his hind legs telling jokes. I turned to a local tribal leader and said, “That lizard is really funny!” The leader replied, “That’s not a lizard. He’s a stand-up chameleon.

-I tried to come up with a carpentry pun that woodwork. I thought I nailed it but nobody saw it.

-Singing in the shower is fine until you get soap in your mouth. Then it’s a soap opera.

-The Black-Eyed Peas can sing us a song …But the chick peas can only hummus one.

-Then there was the time Fruit of the Loom took Hanes to court… It was a brief case.

-How much does a chimney cost?  Nothing, it’s on the house.

-My friend said she wouldn’t eat cow’s tongue because it came out of a cow’s mouth. I gave her an egg.

-Once upon a time there was a King who was only 12 inches tall. He was a terrible King but he made a great ruler.

-Ran out of toilet paper and now using lettuce leaves. Today was just the tip of the iceberg, and tomorrow romaines to be seen.

-My friend Jack says he can communicate with vegetables. That’s right…Jack and the beans talk.

-I want to tell you about a girl who only eats plants. You probably have not heard of herbivore.

-I was struggling to understand how lightning works … And then it struck me.

-Six cows were smoking joints and playing poker. That’s right. The steaks were pretty high.

-I went to the paint store to get thinner. It didn’t work.

-You can’t blame anyone else if you fall in your driveway. It’s your own asphalt.

-I’ve started telling everyone about the benefits of eating dried grapes. It’s all about raisin awareness.

-I’ve started investing in stocks: beef, vegetable, chicken. One day I hope to be a bouillianaire.

-If you boil a funny bone, it becomes a laughing stock. Now that’s humerus.

-I accidentally rubbed ketchup in my eyes. Now I have Heinz sight. 

-Did you know muffins spelled backwards is what you do when you take them out of the oven?

-Scientifically, a raven has 17 primary wing feathers, the big ones at the end of the wing. They are called pinion feathers. A crow has 16. So, the difference between a raven and a crow is only a matter of a pinion.

-I was walking in the jungle and saw a lizard on his hind legs telling jokes. I turned to a local tribal leader and said, “That lizard is really funny!” The leader replied, “That’s not a lizard. He’s a stand-up chameleon.

-I tried to come up with a carpentry pun that woodwork. I thought I nailed it but nobody saw it.

-Singing in the shower is fine until you get soap in your mouth. Then it’s a soap opera.

-The Black-Eyed Peas can sing us a song …But the chick peas can only hummus one.

-Then there was the time Fruit of the Loom took Hanes to court… It was a brief case.

-How much does a chimney cost?  Nothing, it’s on the house.

-My friend said she wouldn’t eat cow’s tongue because it came out of a cow’s mouth. I gave her an egg.

-Once upon a time there was a King who was only 12 inches tall. He was a terrible King but he made a great ruler.

-Ran out of toilet paper and now using lettuce leaves. Today was just the tip of the iceberg, and tomorrow romaines to be seen.

-My friend Jack says he can communicate with vegetables. That’s right…Jack and the beans talk.

-I want to tell you about a girl who only eats plants. You probably have not heard of herbivore.

-I was struggling to understand how lightning works … And then it struck me.

-Six cows were smoking joints and playing poker. That’s right. The steaks were pretty high.

-I went to the paint store to get thinner. It didn’t work.

Day Brightener – Remembering

An A&P grocery ad from 1967. A&P stands for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company.

Me too, that was the good old days.

A man grabbing a bite at a San Francisco diner and using the counter’s Buckley Music System selectors connected to a central jukebox, 1941.


The chart shown here is only ONE day of the week. This report also breaks down six more days, but because this is facebook and not a magazine article, I’m showing one day.*** Cost of feeding 4218 prisoners in Missouri for one day in 1932. (The rest of the week follows this chart.)
From, “Report of the Department of Penal Institutions 1931-32.”

Elevator operators at Marshall Field’s department store in Chicago, 1947. Dressed in their crisp, tailored uniforms with matching jackets and skirts, they represented the elegance and professionalism expected of the store’s staff. These women not only operated the elevators but also greeted customers, announced the floors, and often provided directions or assistance, making them an integral part of the shopping experience.

Jack Benny (violin), Fred MacMurray (sax), Tony Martin (clarinet), Dick Powell (flugelhorn), Kirk Douglas (banjo), and Dan Dailey (drums).. ( Jack Benny Show, 1954.)
A cable for the Nellie tramway is being transported through Telluride, Colorado by pack train in this 1897 photo. The cable was 10,810 feet long and weighed 17,000 lbs.
Menu from Scandia. New York in 1963.
Mill Ave Tempe Az circa 1933

Menu from the Commander Hotel. Ocean City, Maryland in 1963.


IBM Computer, 1960s
By 1967, the IBM System/360 had transformed the workplace. In humming computer rooms filled with blinking lights and whirring tape reels, women and men worked side by side, typing commands into bulky terminals. These machines, once the size of entire rooms, processed payrolls, airline reservations, and even space program data. For many, it was the first glimpse of a digital future — a world where information could be stored, retrieved, and analyzed faster than any human mind. The IBM computer was not just a machine; it was the dawn of the information age. #fblifestyle #TechHistory #1960sInnovation #MainframeEra

On Armistice Day in 1940, a blizzard, with 16.2 inches of snow and wind of 30 to 60 miles per hour, closed down all activities. People could not get to work, the streetcars couldn’t run, and people who were at work couldn’t get home. Many had to work an extra shift. They then, of course, got an extra day off, called “Snow Day”. The City Hall sheltered some, about 20 stayed over night in the Schwartz Motor Company garage and many homes offered overnight stays. People will always remember this blizzard because it hit so suddenly with a sudden drop in temperature. In Minnesota 59 people died, including many hunters in shirt sleeves and light jackets who froze in their duck blinds.

Menu from Café Safran. 1913.
From the New York Public Library
Map of Scottsdale and Paradise Valley – 1956
Menu from Grand Motor Hotel. Montreal, Quebec in 1963. Cover in comments. (Room service menu shown yesterday.)
From the New York Public Library

car stuck in a pothole on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis in 1965

Photo courtesy of Hennepin County Library

Christmas shoppers on Nicollet Avenue at Sixth Street, Minneapolis.
Approximately 1923 MNHS

Day Brightener – Just Too Funny Not To Share

A young man named John received a parrot as a gift. The parrot had a bad attitude and ana even worse vocabulary.

Every word out of the bird’s mouth was rude, obnoxious and laced with profanity. John tried and tried to change the bird’s attitude by

consistently saying only polite words, playing soft music and anything else he could think of to ‘clean up’ the bird’s vocabulary.

Finally, John was fed up and he yelled at the parrot.

The parrot yelled back. John shook the parrot and the parrot got angrier and even more rude. John, in desperation, threw up his hand, grabbed the bird and put him in the freezer. For a few minutes the parrot squawked and kicked and screamed.

Then suddenly there was total quiet. Not a peep was heard for over a minute.

Fearing that he’d hurt the parrot, John quickly opened the door to the freezer. The parrot calmly stepped out onto John’s outstretched arms and said “I believe I may have offended you with my rude language and actions.

I’m sincerely remorseful for my inappropriate transgressions and I fully intend to do everything I can to correct my rude and unforgivable behavior.”

John was stunned at the change in the bird’s attitude.

As he was about to ask the parrot what had made such a dramatic change in his behavior, the bird spoke-up, very softly, “May I ask what the turkey did?”

Day Brightener -15 Pithy Aphorisms

Many renowned writers through the years have used their mastery of words to spin wisdom into memorable and witty maxims. From ancient wisdom to witty one-liners, here are 15 aphorisms to guide you in life.

My favorite is the one attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is made up of marble and mud.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is not length of life, but depth of life. 
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood. 
Marie Curie

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows or judge all he sees. 
Benjamin Franklin

Life is short, art long, occasion brief, experience fallacious, judgment difficult. 
Hippocrates

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. 
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

We are always the same age inside. 
Gertrude Stein

History, like beauty, depends largely on the beholder. 
Desmond Tutu

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. 
Widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt

The act of dying is one of the acts of life. 
Marcus Aurelius

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. 
Oscar Wilde

There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in. 
Leonard Cohen

Brevity is the soul of wit. 
William Shakespeare

Travel is fatal to prejudice. 
Mark Twain