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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2009 20:37:24 GMT
I have to admit that I have always had a soft spot for Reader's Digest jokes. Often, they were the only items of interest when waiting the the doctor's office. (That's not fair -- my mother was a subscriber and I saw most such things at home from the moment I could read.) Jokes
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Post by spindrift on Jul 6, 2009 20:46:48 GMT
Ha ha! I enjoyed the jokes although I've been emailed a couple of them.
My mother read the Reader's Digest. I remember it well.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 6, 2009 22:40:05 GMT
*blush* Same here -- I am compelled to read their jokes and usually wound up laughing. (I really liked the mugged turtle one!) They did a great job of cleaning up the talking dog one. In the early 70s, I spent a summer in my great-uncle's vacant house in Fort Adams, Mississippi. There wasn't tons to do (the sign entering town has no name, merely the words, "State maintenance ends here"). In the house were stashes of magazines: Building the small home, plus body building mags from the 50s that had belonged to my cousins, plus decades worth of Reader's Digest. After a while, I found myself nodding wisely and smugly in agreement with any fuddy-duddy opinion or moral pitched by the magazine.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2009 7:00:31 GMT
They did a great job of cleaning up the talking dog one. You will note that the URL of the link includes the words "clean jokes."
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Post by tillystar on Jul 20, 2009 8:33:08 GMT
Growing up I used to stay at my grandma’s house on Wednesday nights and I loved to get the Reader’s Digest when I was going to bed and read the joke section (“Laughter is the best medicine” it was called)and also test myself on the word quizzes. I had a massive pile by the bed and re-read them lots and felt so grown-up reading them!
Now and them she would buy my brother and I a book from their readers offers. They were always wildlife or travel books – huge hardback ones with beautiful glossy pictures – that you could spend days looking at. It was the biggest treat ever to find she had a new one for us.
Yes, I have a definate soft spot for the Reader's Digest!
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Post by traveler63 on Jul 21, 2009 2:14:00 GMT
I admit it too, I have a soft spot for Reader's Digest. I have to tell you all that we will have the subscription for the next 10 years. Kirk's mother always gave us the subscription for Christmas. Then, when she started to get early Alzheimers she forgot to renew ours but I think everytime she got a renewel she would do two or three years at a time for hers. Anyway, in 2005 when she passed away we had the subscription transferred to us and I think runs out in 2016.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2009 13:59:43 GMT
I subscribe to it. A while back I saw a funny story written by an old friend of mine from B.C. printed in it.
Some heartwarming stories in there too.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2009 20:42:28 GMT
I think that the Reader's Digest is the modern equivalent of a comforting bowl of chicken noodle soup or the old Saturday Evening Post.
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