from KAFKA’S JOKE BOOK
by JOHN McNAMEE
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“Knock knock.”
“Who’s there?”
“Knock knock.”
“Who’s there?” Alois asked again, more insistently.
“Knock knock.”
And so it went for years. It wasn’t until his deathbed Alois realized he was on the outside of the door.
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What’s the difference between a lawyer and a catfish?
Nothing after Albert’s inexplicable transformation. Every breath was agony.
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A horse walks into a bar. The bartender asks, “Why the long face?”
“I was born into servitude, and when I die, my feet will be turned into glue,” replied the horse.
The bartender realized he would not be getting a tip.
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Yo momma’s so fat, that she hasn’t left the flat in three years. Her only solace is the figurine of the ballet dancer that she stares at day in day out. One day, you slip on a banana peel, destroying it.
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If the system has no place for you, and you’re forced to live on its fringes teetering between poverty and anarchy… you may be a redneck.
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Take my wife, please. I can no longer support her and don’t wish to since we lost the child.
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A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. Am I right, ladies?