David G. Wiseman

Stories for a General Audience


All ofthese jokes/stories were originally posted between August 1982 and March 1993. Yes, it's been 7+ years since I ran out of time to keep updating the list. The dates on each line are the timestamps on the files (which may not match any internal dates) and show when these were added to the collection. Note that the list is sorted alphabetically. Click here for the date ordered list.

Feb111992 A Humid Recital Stirs Bangkok
Nov271991 A Light In The Dark
Apr91984 A Loan for a Frog
Oct111984 A Navel Encounter
Jan151992 A Scud It's Not, But the Trebuchet Hurls a Mean Piano
Mar11984 A student prayer
Mar131985 Adult Education at Fanshawe
Mar131985 Ain't We Crazy?
Dec211982 An Accident Report
Mar131985 An Embarrassing Problem
Feb111992 An Unusual Telephone Service Call
Dec161992 Atomic Telephony
Feb111992 B-2: Pricing Information
Dec161992 Brain Damage Quiz
Dec171992 Brightly Burning
Jan151992 Bush, Quayle, exchange jokes with Leno
Mar221985 But Officer ...
Oct121984 Buttered Bread
Apr111991 CDN Defined eh?
Dec91985 Can We Have An Open Debate About Whether Smoking Causes Forest Fires?
Sep121985 Canadian Eh?
Mar131985 Captain Billy's: High Adventure Travel
Mar131985 Catching Lions
Dec171992 Choose Your Own Hell
Feb111992 Church Bulletin Miscues
Feb111992 College Admission Exam Essay Question
Jan221992 Concerning the Soviet Union
Jan151992 Corporate Values-Approved Politically Correct Jokes
Sep121985 Creation On Hold
Oct161982 Cricket: a definition
Oct41988 Cromwell and Rasputin
Dec11992 Defining A Prime Number
Apr301984 Der Jammerwoch
Dec171992 Did I say I was?
Sep121985 Dorm Tomfoolery
Mar131985 Doublespeak
Dec171992 Driving in Boston
Mar241993 Dubious Distinctions for 1992
Mar291984 Ducks in History
Dec171992 Emergency Exit Rules
Dec11992 English is Tough Stuff!
Apr101984 Everyman's Oxymorons
Dec161992 Exchanging Christmas Gifts
Dec151992 Feeding a Cat
Aug271982 Final exam
Aug281984 For People with an Enquiring mind
Sep121985 George the Turk
Dec11992 Going On Down
Mar221985 Heaven and Hell
Dec171992 Hello. Can I speak with someone?
Dec181991 High Court Strikes Down Nature's First Law
Dec151992 Hit any key to continue
Mar131985 How To Win
Dec11992 I Believe
Dec131984 I'd love to, but...
May21985 IBM 370 Model 69: Features and Devices
Feb31992 IFS and the Hubble Space Telescope
Mar221985 In Other Words ...
Oct121984 Interrupting Cricket
Apr301984 Jabberwocky
Feb111992 Jacob's Ladder
Apr11985 Just Cloning Around
Aug291984 Just Lion Around
Dec171992 Kelly's Pork Brains in Gravy
Mar221985 Labour Rates
Dec11992 Lake Chargoggagoggmanchaugagoggchaubunagungamaug
Apr301984 Le Jaseroque
Sep121985 Life in the Fast Lane
Mar221985 Looking After Wives
Dec131984 Meeting Cannibals
Mar131985 Memo to Safety Department
Mar281984 Merge and Serge
Dec11992 Methodologies for Hunting Elephants
Mar221985 Moralizing
Jan151992 Murphy's Laws of Combat
Nov91989 Music Education in America
Mar221985 My Fellow Americans
Dec111992 Never Felt Better
Dec171992 New Definitions for Old Phrases -- Almost
Apr181985 New Wave Languages
Jan151992 News of the Weird
Dec171992 News of the Weird Art Lovers
Mar91988 Not a Naturally Tenable Position
Aug281984 Of course!
Mar131985 On the Buses
Apr171985 One Drink Too Many
Mar221985 One Swift Chicken
Dec11992 Only Hispanic in America
Aug311984 Orchestral Problems
Jan151992 Ottawa Awards Stanley Cup to Quebec
Mar221985 Oxymoron Quiz
Jan151992 Pachydermic Personnel Prediction
Sep121985 Parish Rector Rating Chart
Dec151992 Paul's Urban Crane Bungee Jump
Dec131984 Problems on the Beach
Dec171992 Project Metrication
Mar51984 Proof: 1 over infinity = 0
Aug281984 Prospector, Snake, and Lever
Jan151992 Quayle Quotes: The List So Far
Dec161992 R.J. Reynolds Chairman Speaks Out
Mar131985 Rates For Answers
Jun141984 Red Rory o' th' Glen
Feb111992 Road Signs from the USA
Dec11992 Schubert Corrected
Dec11992 Senatorial Advice
Sep121985 Sesame Street Buses
Dec161992 Signs of the Times
Sep121985 Situation Adapability Evaluation
Sep121985 Snake Life For All
Mar221985 Some Poetry
Dec171992 Speaking Car-fully
Dec11992 Spinal Tap Revisited
Dec161992 Strange Driving Practices
Apr101986 Surprising the Wife
Dec11992 Testaments vs. Gospels
Aug311984 That's Once
Sep261984 The Affluence of Incohol
Oct161982 The Art of Flying
Oct121984 The Babel Fish
Jan151992 The Boussard Ramjet: Beginnings
Apr261983 The Bureaucrat's Soliloquy
Sep121985 The Corporate Structure
Dec11992 The Dead President Sketch
Dec11992 The Earliest Time Signal
Feb111992 The Latest Japanese Verb
Mar221985 The NE Strikes (out) Again
Apr161984 The Problem with the States
Dec11992 The Progress of Science is Worth a Few Giggles
Mar281985 The REAL Truth about Exercising
Dec11992 The State of Some Marriages is Terminal
Apr101984 The Temperature of Heaven
Mar131985 The Ten Stages of Drunkenness
Mar291984 The Turbo Encabulator
Feb111992 The Way It Is...
Oct41988 The World According to Student Bloopers
Mar221985 This Week in the Fribble Press
Dec11992 Today's Puzzle
Oct111991 Walker Railey Bailey Looks for his Lost Seeds of Faith
Dec151992 Warning Labels
Aug281984 We the Willing
Feb111992 Weird Wonders and Bizarre Blunders
May111985 What do you call...
Oct121984 What, me trust Reagan?
May111984 When Life Reeked With Joy
May21985 When you're out of slits...
Dec11992 Who Said It and How do We Get it Right?
Feb111992 Who's Water is it Anyway?
Mar221985 Working for the Zoo
Mar131985 Your Child's Intelligence
Feb201989 Your Co-worker Could Be a Space Alien, Say Experts
Mar221985 Your New Year's Party


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