Mary Jokes

Last night as I lay down, this sudden and critical memory came to mind of telling dumb Mary jokes. It was as if I could hear myself muttering the sing-songy rythm of telling the joke and felt the joy of watching people laugh at the punch lines but couldn’t remember for the life of me what the jokes were. I laid there for a while trying to sleep but quite frustrated by this incomplete picture. I was also coughing a lot so I finally got up for water and walked downstairs to my computer to look them up. Surely I wasn’t the only one who had heard these Mary jokes? I did a couple searches for “Mary Jokes” with no results, and finally after a little more looking realized that someone had referred to Mary Jane jokes. Evidently when I was told these jokes the teller had missed the Jane part and relayed the character simply as Mary. I was also a little surprised to find that most of these jokes were somewhat off-color. The ones I had heard were among them however, and my unclear memory was made complete. What a relief. Because of the nature of some of the jokes I won’t refer you to the website that I found, but I will list one of the jokes here and maybe add a few more in later posts. I know you’re just dying to hear them now that I’ve told you this whole story.

Mary Jane had forgotten to do her chores one day and was sitting in her room reading a book. Her father came storming up the stairs, threw open her bedroom door, ripped the book out of her hand and threw it across the room….

Mary Jane laughed and laughed, she knew what page she was on.

Some of you are feeling very let down right now. I’m so sorry, I don’t make up the memories…I just relay them here.