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Truly Tasteless Jokes

Blanche Knott

Knott, Blanche (Ashton Applewhite);

Truly Tasteless Jokes

Ballantine Books, 1982, 116 pages

ISBN 034530537X, 9780345305374

topics: |  humour


This book was the biggest-selling mass-market book of 1983 -
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE1DB1739F93AA25752C1A966958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all.
It was written by Ashton Applewhite, a fresh college graduate working with
St. Martin's Press http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_Knott.
Categories of tasteless jokes include DEAD BABY:
   What does it take to make a dead baby float?
      One scoop of ice cream and one scoop of dead baby.
   What's red and squirms in the corner?
      A baby playing with a razor blade.
   Why do you put a baby in the blender feet first?
      So you can watch its expression.
   What's red and goes round and round?
      A baby in a garbage disposal.
or HELEN KELLER:
   How did Helen Keller burn her fingers?
      Reading the waffle iron.
   Why does HK masturbate with one hand?
      So she can moan with the other.
and a large section on POLISH (what does a polish girl do after she sucks
cock?  Spits out the feathers) and BLACK:
   What do you call a black boy with a bicycle?
      Thief!
   What's the new Webster's definition of the word "confusion"?
      Father's day in Harlem.


amitabha mukerjee (mukerjee [at] gmail.com) 17 Feb 2009