Saturday, March 29, 2008

And speaking of urinal cakes . . . .

I recently unearthed an article from the July 1975 issue of Esquire magazine in which the editors say that the Seventies are funny. The list below was "compiled by a ruthlessly independent humor research organization and computer selected for funniness from a master list, a list that included everything remotely funny under the sun. Read the list aloud." Where did you crack up? What words or phrases always make you laugh?

rubber chickens
Veg-O-Matic
chipped beef on toast
socks with five toes
colored condoms
chopped liver sculpture
the Italian Post Office
guppies
smelts
Limburger cheese
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
zits
Whoopee Cushions
belly-button lint
Oral Roberts University
Bebe Rebozo
civet sweat
boxer shorts
Little Lulu
big Jewish weddings
big Italian funerals
duck feet
pet turtles
Manischewitz concord grape
Moby Grape
Adam’s apples
Screaming Yellow Zonkers
kreplach
Chiclets
pasta fasu
the NiƱa, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria
pink chinchilla
Pop-Tarts
Goldberg’s Pizzeria
the Wife of Bath
catcher’s mitts
heartbreak of psoriasis
blurbs
fardels
Jeeps
heebie-jeebies
Q-Tips
aspidistra
gold lame wedgies
dingleberries
beebleberries
Ernest and Julio Gallo
rutabagas
a dead horse in the bathtub
Fig Newtons
the wet look
Froggy Gremlin
gherkins
merkins
snoods
Cold Duck
Hammacher Schlemmer
sitz baths
nose jobs
Tupperwear parties
short sheets
Madria-Madria Sangria
prairie oysters
meadow muffins
Rose Ann Scamardella
Bayonne
urinal cakes
swamp gas
sheep dip
onion dip
Silly Putty
warthogs
socks with four toes
Louis Prima’s Great Italian Love Songs
Pete LaCock
kasha varnishkes
Veruschka
the Zuider Zee
Spaghetti-Os
gerbils
bowling shirts
Pennzoil
Turks
Hamburger Helper
Mensa
passing gas in the bathtub
hammertoes
Toity-toid and Toid
infibulation
cocktail onions
scrofula
blowfish
bat shit
Bella Abzug
Bela Lugosi
the Tidy Bowl man
Roto-Rooter
goosing people
kosher for Passover
cement shoes
Longines Symphonette
pre-tied bow ties
prunes
nits
cha-cha-cha
hernias
hippos defecating
lobster bibs
plastic dog poop
Earl Butz
Wayne Newton
Airwick
Oscar Mayer wieners
French Lick, Indiana

2 comments:

Colleen said...

The 70s were not funny, the 70s were boss! The 70s were a disco inferno!

Chuckbert said...

I always thought Earl Butz was a funny name.