{"id":2652,"date":"2005-09-08T00:26:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-08T05:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2652"},"modified":"2017-12-29T16:25:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T22:25:17","slug":"book-report-the-worlds-best-dirty-jokes-by-mr-j-1976-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/08\/book-report-the-worlds-best-dirty-jokes-by-mr-j-1976-1979\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>The World&#8217;s Best Dirty Jokes<\/i> by Mr. &#8220;J&#8221; (1976, 1979)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If future archeologists unearth a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0818402237\/ref=lpr_g_1\/103-3183317-3563029?v=glance&#038;s=books&#038;n=507846\" target=\"_new\">this tome<\/a>, they will undoubtedly think that the 1970s were a repressed period.  I mean, this book collects some jokes that might have been considered dirty circa 1948, but in the 1970s, mildly off color words weren&#8217;t shocking enough to cause startled laughter in joke listeners, much less joke readers.<\/p>\n<p>This book was originally published in 1976, but I purchased a special 1979 printing at the YMCA for a buck.  Let that be your guide.  I bought it at a fundraiser at the Young Man&#8217;s Christian Association in 2005.  Jeez, I knew better dirty jokes in 1979, and I was in elementary school.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to belive that only a couple of years later, local radio personality Frank O. Pinion released the <i>definitive<\/i> dirty joke book&#8211;which I read surrepitiously during my middle school years.  The book featured the famous Willy Nelson joke, which I remember and can recite to this day.  But the contents of this book&#8211;<i>The World&#8217;s Best Dirty Jokes<\/i>, I remind you, gentle reader&#8211;I have already forgotten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If future archeologists unearth a copy of this tome, they will undoubtedly think that the 1970s were a repressed period. I mean, this book collects some jokes that might have been considered dirty circa 1948, but in the 1970s, mildly off color words weren&#8217;t shocking enough to cause startled laughter in joke listeners, much less [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2652"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19232,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652\/revisions\/19232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}