Jokes

My Nephew is six years old, in first grade, and has recently developed a deep and abiding love of telling jokes. Usually he just makes them up as he goes along. His favorite joke at the moment goes something like 'What did the cow say to the farmer?' (You reply: I don't know, what?) 'Moo!'

Once in awhile he starts trying to retell a joke he's heard from his teenage brothers. More often than not this just scares me, because I never know just what kind of joke this was in the first place, but I often suspect it was something he should not have heard and hopefully didn't fully understand.

Every morning, as I'm taking him to school, we listen to a radio program which features a lot of chatter and jokes which are usually mild enough for him. They don't all make sense to him, but they don't all make sense to me, either.

Anyway, the one this morning struck me as particularly funny.


A woman and her daughter spent the day shopping together for the perfect dress for her to wear as mother-of-the bride at the daughter's wedding next month. They had wonderful luck and emerged from the day ecstatic over the purchase, having found "the perfect dress".

The next weekend the daughter visited her dad and the woman he was dating (who was, of course, considerably younger than her mother). She was appalled when her father's girlfriend showed her the dress she was planning to wear to the wedding. It was identical to the one they had just bought for her mother!

The daughter tells the girlfriend what has happened and asks her to return it to the store and choose something else. "I certainly will NOT", the girlfriend replied, "I look absolutely stunning in this dress...it shows off my fabulous figure and the color accentuates my suntan perfectly. No way am I taking it back!"

Heartsick, the daughter broke the bad news to her mother, who responded, "No problem, honey, I'll wear something else. This will be the most special day of your life, and I want it to be absolutely perfect for you."

"Mom, you're the greatest . . . so understanding and supportive. I sure hope you don't have any trouble getting a refund on the dress."

"Oh, I'm not returning the dress", the mother answered. "I'll just wear it to the rehearsal dinner!"

The radio program is called Radio Caffeine and it airs on 97.3 WDEE (Northern Michigan)