Boy’s Life Humor

The “Think and Grin” section of Boy’s Life magazine has some pretty silly humor, especially in issues from the 1950’s. This is part of a complete episode.

Transcript of “Boy’s Life Humor”

Lately just for fun I’ve been looking at copies of old magazines including Boys Life, which has a little section in it called Think and Grin.

Yeah, little jokes and riddles and one-liners and kind of like lowest common denominator humor, right?

Exactly. Exactly. These magazines from the 1950s are pretty much that. Here’s just one example.

Woman. I’ll have a large lamb chop with buttered carrots and peas and have the chop lean.

Waiter. Yes, madam. Which way?

Ba-dum-bum.

Ba-dum-bum.

877-929-9673.

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