What question must always be answered, “Yes”?”What does Y-E-S spell?”
Early Texas governors were not very well educated. There was once a chief executive who thought “grammar” was his father’s mother. On one occasion this governor went hunting and forgot his gun. He phoned his secretary and asked him to send the gun.”The phone connection’s bad,” said the secretary. “I couldn’t catch that last word. […]
A Hoosier, a Kentuckian and a West Virginian were on a Hollywood TV quiz show. The host asked them to complete the sentence: “Old MacDonald had a …” The Indianan said, “Old MacDonald had a carburetor.” “Sorry,” said the MC. “That’s incorrect.” “Old MacDonald had a flat tire,” said the Kentuckian. “Wrong,” said the host. […]
Interviewer: How do you spell Mississippi? Redneck: Which one? The river or the state?