Q1. How on earth do you find all this stuff, your jokes included?
Q2.Do you spend a lot of time on your computer?
Q1. A mixture of luck and having an instinct for knowing what questions to ask
Google' Quite often when you are searching for something you come up with the unexpected which you can use immediately or store for future use. An example was when you raised
Fake News, I thought that would make a good theme for joke stories or cartoons. So, I googled
jokes about fake news. It came up with nothing I could use but pointed to several articles on fake news sites. I saw one that I thought might interest you and included it in the post.
If you are after something specific and come up with nothing, sometimes reordering the keywords will come up with a new set of answers.
With jokes, you can google a theme and sometimes you are lucky but from time to time you are even more lucky and come up with an obscure source that has collections of jokes you can use. I use some and store the rest for later use.
I shy away from jokes that are cruel, demean minorities, or use gratuitous bad language to make up for cleverness. An example might be blonde jokes. I would only use them when the blonde is shown to be the clever one. I don't shy from using risqué or bad language if it is at the heart of the humour.
Here is an example I have been sitting on for months. I am not sure it is very funny, whether it crosses the line on blonde jokes, and I thought I had seen it published elsewhere recently. A thorough search of the forum produced no result so it must have been elsewhere;
A blonde teenager, wanting to earn some extra money for the summer, decided to hire herself out as a "handy-woman" and started canvassing a nearby well-to-do neighbourhood. She went to the front door of the first mansion, and asked the owner if he had any odd jobs for her to do.
"Well, I guess I could use somebody to paint my porch," he said, "How much will you charge me?"
Delighted, the girl quickly responded, "How about $50?"
The man agreed and told her that the paint brushes and everything she would need was in the garage.
The man's wife, hearing the conversation said to her husband, "Does she realize that our porch goes ALL the way around the house?"
He responded, "That's a bit cynical, isn't it?"
The wife replied, "You're right. I guess I'm starting to believe all those dumb blonde jokes we've been getting by email lately."
Later that day, the blonde came to the door to collect her money.
"You're finished already?" the startled husband asked.
"Yes, and I even had paint left over, so I gave it two coats."the blonde replied
Impressed, the man reached into his pocket for the $50.00 and handed it to her along with a $10.00 tip.
"And by the way, "the blonde added, "it's not a Porche, it's a Lexus."
Q2. This is a hard one to answer. If I exclude playing Chi games, keeping up with emails and messages with my non-forum friends and on-line shopping and product research, I would say somewhere between 30-90 minutes a day on forum posts. When I’m tired or pushed for time I can usually draw on stored material. At other times when I have my teeth into something, I can sometimes forget time and it will be somewhat longer. One thing sometimes surprises people is that with google you can appear to be a local on the other side of the globe. I can usually put a post together quite quickly but I like to present them, particularly the long ones, in an easily readable form. Sometimes the editing time exceeds the original composing time.