Jeff – Welcome. Hope you stay in touch.

btw, thanks for stopping by. Nice to meet you too, I’ll be back!

And then we can ALL do the joke.

And then we can create our own version of “The Aristocrats” — a movie so funny, a movie that made me laugh so hard, that I thought I was going to pass out for being unable to breathe in.

Yet a few minutes later, one telling of the famous joke was so disgusting I thought I was going to throw up. My kind of movie!

In fact, one can find dozens of versions of the penguin joke through Google, even without knowing much about the joke itself.

Try penguin joke “ice cream,” which is what I did to get many versions.

And Larry is right: The longer versions are better.

I liked the one about the penguin’s car breaking down in Arizona in August and how he had to walk many blocks to the ice-cream store because no one would give him a ride, being racist Arizona bigots and all. There were all kinds of details about the penguin’s sad suffering and his lack of funds, and then there were glorious details about his deep enjoyment of the vanilla ice cream and his stoic, dignified demeanor as he ate the ice cream at the counter, without the use of hands and without help from kind bystanders sympathetic to a penguin in an Arizona summer.

So you had all this build-up — based on the penguin’s disagreeable experiences in this shitty Arizona town — to the ultimate insult from the mechanic: that he (the penguin) is a _________________ [insert your favorite bad word for a male person of the homosexual persuasion].

Blue Girl – Yes, the chimps are natural comics.

kStyle – I read your penguin joke, and it cracked me up.

GFI – Just like Homer and Melville!

Lori – You’re gonna be in trouble if you don’t remember that joke. I have to hear it now.

kStyle (again) – What this means, other readers, is that now kStyle’s sock puppet bunny actually links back to her site. So go read the other penguin joke there.

Michael Bains – Welcome! I don’t know where you grew up, but in my hometown, the snowman would have gotten artstically modified in short order.

I remember there was Toro Lawn products shop where I lived growing up. They always changed their sign (like a gas station or church sign) for the season and my favorite was, one autum, they put up a Snow Man with a big grin on his face and the words “Don’t shovel. Blow your snow!”

Classic!