No one gets enough credit for inventing a good joke, but here we have evidence of half a dozen original but highly specific yakkers. One wishes there were more, but I have to agree with the stately drawing of Queen Victoria on endspiece: "We are amused."

This book is a collection of jokes, organized by topic.

A good portion of the jokes are reliant on puns, so if that sort of thing gets on your nerves, you probably won't like this book. At times, it was pushing it with me. There are only so many variations of "aardvark" I can take before I start wanting to bludgeon people.

The best thing about this book is that all of the jokes are child friendly, and generally inoffensive. There are no blonde jokes or Yo Mama jokes here.

My biggest takeaway from this book was the realization that joke writers for kids love giving themselves ridiculous names. It almost seems like a necessity.

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Good times.

Although I adored Mr Singh's The Portrait Of A Lady (I cried), his joke book was a tasteless piece of garbage. And I will admit that I read it because I am a perverted snot.

Some light reading to end the year. This is a very funny collection, but not something for the easily offended. My favorite -- possible prompts for creative writing exercises. Jean Paul Sartre as a 911 operator is pretty funny as well.

One of the first ever books I remember borrowing from the library.