"Join the army, travel the world, meet interesting people and kill them" is an anti-war saying that has been printed on many gift items, such as T-shirts and bumper stickers. "Join…
At a buffet, one helps one's self. "Just been to a 'fear of buffets' help group. I was warned against signing up but I couldn't help myself" is a joke that was posted…
"I know a lot of jokes about bad pole-vaulters, but none of them seem to go over very well. Comment On This Pun!" was posted on Twitter by Just another Jokes on April 2, 2018. The joke…
Wurst has the worst puns. "German sausage ads are the wurst" was cited on Twitter on September 23, 2009. "German sausage puns are the wurst" was cited on Twitter on December 4,…
"Demerara" sugar sounds like "them are rarer." "There aren't that many jokes about white sugar. But jokes about brown sugar....demerara! HAHAHAHAHAHA!! credit to…
Fairy tales often end with "happily ever after." "Appley/Apple-y ever after" or "Applely ever after" (apple + happily ever after) is an apple variation of this.…
Entry in progress -- B.P. Wikipedia: Great Jones StreetGreat Jones Street is a street in New York City's NoHo district in Manhattan, essentially another name for 3rd Street between Broadway…
"José, can you see" is a popular mondegreen of "O say can you see," the first line in Francis Scott Key's "Star-Spangled Banner" (the U.S. national anthem).…
"Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound" is a 19th century statement meaning that good journalism is what people will pay for.…
David Burge (who has blogged as Iowahawk) posted this now-famous remark about journalism on Twitter on May 9, 2013: "Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they…
"Journalism is literature in a hurry" has been credited (since at least 1973) to British poet and cultural critic Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), but there's no evidence that he said it.…
"Journalism — a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand" is a quotation credited to Lord Northcliffe (1865-1922), a British newspaper…
"Journalists become journalists because they aren't good at math" is an old journalism adage. The adage is often brought up when a newspaper story involves math, such as charts and…
A popular meme in the late 1970s was how various professions "do it" -- a mild sex pun. For example, "Divers Do It Deeper." A news media version is "Journalists Do It…
"Contrary to popular belief, the Pulitzer Prize isn't the highest award in journalism. It is being killed by the CIA" is a saying that has been printed on many images. That is, the…
A traffic court joke was posted on Twitter by Terry F on May 3, 2016: [traffic court]Your honor, I'm here to dispute 4 of my 5 ticketsJUDGE: Repeat infractions?Ok, I'm here to dispute…
A traffic court joke was posted on Twitter by Terry F on May 3, 2016: [traffic court]Your honor, I'm here to dispute 4 of my 5 ticketsJUDGE: Repeat infractions?Ok, I'm here to dispute…
A traffic court joke was posted on Twitter by Terry F on May 3, 2016: [traffic court]Your honor, I'm here to dispute 4 of my 5 ticketsJUDGE: Repeat infractions?Ok, I'm here to dispute…
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826), in the book Physiologie du Gout (1825), wrote "Tell me what you eat, and I shall tell you what you are," often interpreted as "you are what…
"July is a blind date with summer" is a July saying that has been printed on many images. Harold "Hal" Borland (1900-1978) wrote the unsigned editorial "July" in the…