Blogging, plus a joke
July 18, 2016
Dear Readers,No word on the latest novel (or second-latest--I'm thinking about another one already), but there's more free content online. I've been "blogging" about my generation, plus an open letter to Hillary Rodham Clinton:
http://jeknowles.blogspot.com
Lest that all be too serious, a conversation with an Englishman led me to compose this joke, which I freely admit is modeled on previous joke structure.
The year is 2020. An old man slowly makes his way down the aisle of a train carriage. The car is full of English people of a similar age.
He asks the first man he sees, “Excuse me. Can you please tell me—did you vote for Margaret Thatcher’s government in 1979?”
“No! That b*tch? I knew what was coming—I knew she was going to destroy everything! The Me decade—worst thing that ever happened to Britain.”
“Thank you,” the man says.
Then he asks a woman, “Excuse me. Can you please tell me if you voted for Tony Blair’s government in 1997?”
“Oh my, no,” she says. “I just knew from the very beginning he was going to be a lap dog for George W. Bush. The Iraq war—absolutely unforgivable.”
“Thank you,” the man says.
He asks the next man he comes to, “Excuse me. Can you please tell me if you voted Leave in 2016?”
“Indeed I did. And what’s more, if that traitor Theresa May hadn’t made such a mess of it, we’d be better off today. She shouldn’t have stopped with deporting EU migrants—she should have got rid of all the Muslims, and the blacks as well!”
“Oh, thank goodness,” the man says. “Finally, an honest person. Can you watch my bag while I go to the loo?”