Timeless Lines Turned Technological With SMS Jokes

A sense of humor is one of the top requirements anyone lists in a potential mate or date. "I want someone to make me laugh," is a common response to the question, "What do you want in a man or woman?" With the popularity of mobile phone dating, it then becomes important to know how to deliver good SMS jokes in order to attract more possible dates.

What are SMS jokes? SMS jokes are short, cute or funny messages that are specifically designed to be sent via text messaging. If you are using cell phones and text messaging in order to meet people, then you will definitely need to practice and perfect the art of SMS jokes!

But I'm not funny! Some of us have a hard time being funny in a regular one-on-one conversation, so SMS jokes just are not going to come naturally to us. There are other people who have a good sense of humor, but generally rely on facial expressions and other body movements to convey many of their jokes.

If you fall into either of these categories, you may think that SMS jokes will be beyond you. You may be worried about your ability to successfully carry off a funny, successful text conversation. But you do not have to worry! There are dozens of websites devoted entirely to SMS jokes of every type imaginable.

Some of these websites include funsms.net, humorsphere.com, smsjokes.net, and smsgreat.net. These sites each have hundreds of SMS jokes that you can search through by category. You may find some great inspiration for your own witty and flirty text messages. The best way to use these sites is not to copy the jokes directly, but to reword them to fit your situation and personality.

Words of caution when using SMS jokes. It is important to remember that when using SMS jokes, you should still follow basic guidelines of taste. You do not want to send numerous messages that are actually better examples of rude test messages than funny ones. It is common for people to feel much more free in what they say via a text message, and many people text things they would never, ever say in person!

Always remember when using cell phone dating practices that you actually intend on meeting some of these people. After all, it would be pointless to cultivate a possibly romantic relationship with someone you are never going to meet. If you would be completely embarrassed by telling a joke in person, you may want to avoid texting it.

In the same line of thought, certain SMS jokes that can be found online will probably give an impression that you mean to have a sexual fling, and not a true relationship. Unless you actually do aim for a hot and heavy fling, then you should probably avoid these times of text jokes as well

Regardless of your personality, you should be able to find SMS jokes that will put a smile on your special friend, but that also are true to who you really are.

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When Jokes Are Reduced To Punch Lines

I remember my parents and their friends telling jokes as a regular part of the day's entertainment, much as these days people watch cartoons on TV.

And people don't read books of jokes so much any more either.

The well-oiled joke was indeed the best medicine and arguably did more for political and economic advancement than all the staples of television: the news clips and soap operas and reality TV shows.

I also remember Party Games. No, dear, this involved more than throwing the best-looking girl in the swimming pool or spiking the punch. There were Charades, which traditionally dissolved into hysteria before anyone could even take a guess at the tableau played out by arbitrarily drawn teams of tipsy revelers.

Then there were the word games such as Word Association and Capitals. In word association the starter came up with a random word and then, going around the room, the players had to come up with properly associated words - fast. This offered an interesting insight into the popular subconscious. Capitals involved the first player starting with a word. The next player had to start the next word with the last letter of that word and so on round the circle, at speed. It's harder than it sounds.

Then there was a lovely game called Tombstones, which my mom invented. The principle was to come up with the most unlikely tombstone engraving for any particular person. The funniest one was the winner. Imagine for instance a literate, wise and meaningful inscription on George W. Bush's tombstone.

Although we cannot be considered particularly old or even noticeably middle-aged (to one another anyway), my contemporaries and I sometimes become nostalgic about those days, when a joke was a joke. It could be so funny you would cry and sometimes so cogent you could laugh yourself to death.

Recently we were reminiscing about those endless days in the sun, with wine and whisky flowing and great pots of steaming barbecued meat and corn. Out of this came a new, latter-day party game that I shall call Punch Lines. The idea is this: to provide the punch line of known joke. Those who are familiar with it can then have a good laugh at the memory of it and those who don't know the joke are free to guess how the joke goes.

It's a joke form for the new millennium: fast, diffuse and everyone gets to have a say. New jokes come out of old jokes. Politically incorrect jokes become acceptable because they are all in the ear of the beholder. No one gets laughed at for telling a joke badly. Joke telling takes on a lateral thinking aspect that is lacking in the old music hall "I say, I say, I say..." school of wit. It's a kind of a broad network search for a consensus of what is funny. Democracy made jolly. Or we try.

The other night Priscilla came up with this punch line: "So the guard said, 'Hans, bring the steamroller." None of us knew the joke so Priscilla provided the second-last sentence in the joke. "The Jewish prisoner answered: "Squash". We were still unsure. Priscilla gave the third last sentence. "So the guard gave the Polish prisoner a racquet and told him to go and play tennis." We got it then. There was a bit of clucking and couple of wan smiles. Priscilla was not happy. "That was the funniest joke I had ever heard when I was 14, back in the seventies."

It's not funny anymore. We have TV. We are serious. We are cowardly. We jump at our own shadows. We don't want to offend. We avoid joke books and jokes.

Have you heard the one about the Gypsy, the Homosexual and the Nazi officer? The punch line is: Not while I'm alive you won't.

About the author: Justine Eaglestone is a journalist brick-and-mortar bookstore owner, online bookdealer and booksite specialist. See her blog at http://search-book-sites.blogspot.com/ and website http://www.abillionbooks.com/

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