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Just Joking
By George Stock
Oxford County Library
For the Oxford Review
June 5, 2001
You’re going to a party and for once you liven up the chatter in the room with some great jokes. Or you have to deliver a speech and you want to melt the ice. Or you just need a laugh to send the blues away.
All kinds of jokes abound on the internet: clean, naughty, nasty, puns, knock-knock, religious, bar, adult, travel, lightbulb, school, chicken. Jokes about animals, occupations, animal, computers, marriage.
Finding them is not a chore. Select your favourite search engine…I like Google (http://www.google.com ). Enter the word “joke” in the search line and watch as the search engine identifies enough sites to keep you busy for a lifetime.
Hundreds of joke sites can be found through Starting Page (http://www.startingpage.com ). The links to these sites are set up in three categories: Humor, Mature Humor and Odd Humor.
On the Humor page, the links are set up under the headings Editor’s Choice- Best Humor Sites, New Additions, Recent Additions and Best Classic Humor Sites on the Web. Let your joke surfing begin!
Use the “Humor” page to minimize the number of links to potentially offensive sexual, ethnic or gender jokes. Do a search for “clean jokes” on the Humor page to develop a list of links to sites that have only clean jokes.
Or if you are looking for a joke on a particular subject, find joke sites that have search engines by doing a search for “joke search”. Make sure to use the quotation marks around the phrase so that it identifies sites with joke search capabilities, not lists of sites with the word “joke” and those with the word “search”.
My favourite joke site is Joke Master (http://www.only-network.com/humor/search.asp ). This site has a large joke database with an excellent search engine. For example, a search for “teacher” turns over two dozen possibilities. But it is also possible to get the joke of the day, browse the archives or hit “random” to pull up a surprise. Joke Master is very quick to navigate but has the disadvantage of splashing commercial pages on the screen. These can be quickly deleted but may be irritating to some surfers.
With the wealth of joke sites on the web you could spend a lifetime. And this time I’m not just joking.
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