April 10th Jokes

# Edison spent years trying to invent an electrical light bulb. After thousands of failed attempts he ran into the house from his laboratory and up the stairs shouting, carrying his invention. He ran into the bedroom of his sleeping wife and exclaimed, “I’ve done it, I’ve done it.” She rolled over, looked at him and said, “Will you please turn that light off and come to bed.”

# When my son Christopher was 10 years old, he told me about a classroom assignment he was given. “I have to make a list of the things that had not yet been invented when you were 10,” he said pencil poised over paper.  “Well, for starters, the wheel,” I replied waiting patiently for the laugh that never came. I felt even worse when he wrote it down. “Okay, the wheel,” he said. “What else?”

@ On an upper Manhattan sidewalk a woman was causing a little commotion by walking her 4 foot Iguana on leash with a rhinestone collar. People walking by stopped to look and then double take. Some stopped and asked questions and then moved on. Two boys walked by and one said to the other: “Wow, that is one ugly dog.”