“After another season,” said Farmer Perkins, “I guess we’ll have a chef for the summer boarder.”
“What’s a chef?” asked Mrs. Perkins.
“A chef is a man with a big enough vocabulary to give the soup a different name every day.”
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The summer boarder asked, “Why is it that old hog keeps trying to come into my room? Do you think he has taken a fancy to me?”
Little Willie explained it. He whispered, “Why, that’s his room during the winter.”
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With a nod to Johnny Carson
“It was so hot out — ”
“HOW HOT WAS IT?”
“It was so hot out:
I saw a dog chasing a cat — and they were both walking.”
The cows are giving evaporated milk.”
The chickens are laying hard-boiled eggs.”
Hot water comes out of both taps.”
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Erratum In the Spring 2022 issue, we inadvertently omitted the name of the author’s endocrinologist, Dr. Gretchen Perilli, from the article, “My Journey Into, and My Rescue From, Type 2 Diabetes.” We apologize for the omission.
