TGIF - 30 December - Year 2011's Best Jokes



Greetings at this, the end of the year 2011 – the last Friday in the year. Some may be saying “Thank God that 2011 is over!” but let’s just say today, “Thank God It’s Friday!”
It’s that time of year when all over the media we are seeing and hearing about the major events of 2011 – the year in review. So, I thought I’d follow suit with a review of the best jokes that appeared on the pages of my TGIF messages this year. Top Ten lists are very popular in the media as well so I have composed a list of the top 10 “honorable mention” jokes of the year, followed by the Top Ten Best Jokes of the Year, used in my TGIF messages. Enjoy!
Top Ten Honorable Mention Jokes of the Year
Honorable Mention #1
Advice to the Old Guy
An old guy was working out in the gym when he spotted a sweet young thing...
He asked the trainer that was nearby, "What machine in here should I use to impress that sweet thing over there?"
The trainer looked him up and down and said,
"I would try the ATM in the lobby." 
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Honorable Mention #2
Apparently it's no longer politically correct to direct a joke at any racial or ethnic minority so try this one:
An Englishman, a Scotsman, an Irishman, a Welshman, a Latvian, a Turk, an Aussie, a German, a Yank, an Egyptian, a Japanese, a Mexican, a Spaniard, a Russian, a Pole, a Lithuanian, a Swede, a Finn, an Israeli, a Romanian, a Bulgarian, a Serb, a Swiss, a Greek, a Singaporean, an Italian, a Norwegian and an African went to a night club.
The bouncer said: "Sorry, I can’t let you in without a Thai"
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Honorable Mention #3
Many aspects of human sexuality are puzzling. Take celibacy, for example.
This can be a choice in life, or a condition imposed by environmental factors.
While attending a Marriage Encounter Weekend, Tony and Julie listened to the instructor declare, 'It is essential that husbands and wives know the things that are important to each other.' 
He addressed the men. 'Can you each name and describe your wife's favourite flower?' 
Tony leaned over, touched Julie's arm gently and whispered,
'Self-raising, isn't it?'

Thus began Tony's life of celibacy.
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Honorable Mention #4
Good Advice
If you can't afford a doctor, go to an airport - you'll get a free x-ray and be checked out from head to toe.
And if you mention Al-Qaida, you'll also get a free colonoscopy!
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Honorable Mention #5
New Year’s Prayer for 2011
Dear God,
All I ask for in 2011 is a big fat bank account and a slim body …..
.....please don't mix these up like you did last year.
Amen
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Honorable Mention #6

The Basketball Coach and The Ref

After a difficult basketball game, the coach spotted a cell phone lying on the floor. He picked it up and handed it to one of the referees, saying, "Here's your phone."

"What makes you think it's mine?" the ref asked.

"Easy," the coach replied. "It says you missed 13 calls."
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Honorable Mention #7
Please Define “PC”
There is an annual contest at Texas A&M University calling for the most appropriate definition of a contemporary term. This year's term was:
"Political Correctness"
The winner wrote:
"Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a piece of shit by the clean end."
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Honorable Mention #8
Also in the news this week, A Greek, an Italian and a Portuguese go out for a great dinner.....
They have a ball. The food is great, the drinks superb, the background music soothing...... 
Who pays? ...... The German 
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Honorable Mention #9
I pointed to two old drunks sitting across the bar from us and told my friend "That's us in 10 years".
He said “You idiot, that's a mirror!"
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Honorable Mention #10
Hard of Hearing
After Daylight Savings Time ended, I stopped in to visit my friend, who is hard of hearing.
He was busy covering his penis with black shoe polish.
I shouted to him, "You idiot! You're supposed to turn your clock back!
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It’s now time for the Top Ten Jokes of 2011, selected by the TGIF Editor-in-Chief:
BEST JOKES OF THE TGIF IN 2011
Best Joke of the Year - # 10
(Ed. Note : If I had to go on the number of “entries/contributions” this one might have been #1)
Achieving Inner Peace
I am passing this on to you because it definitely worked for me, and we all could probably use more calm in our lives.
Some doctor on television this morning said that the way to achieve ‘Inner Peace’ is to finish all the things you have started.
So, I looked around my house to see things I'd started and hadn't finished and, before leaving the house this morning, I finished off a bottle of Merlot, a bottle of shhhardonay, a bodle of Baileys, a butle of vocka, a pockage of Prunglies, tha mainder of bot Prozic and Valumscriptins, the res of the Chesescke an a box a chocolets.
Yu haf no idr who dmn gud I fel.
Peas sen dis orn to dem yu fee AR in ned ov inr pece
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Best Joke of the Year - # 9
The New Congressmen of early 2011
This new year here in the USA also brings a new Congress, with the House of Representatives dominated by Republicans for the first time since prior to the elections of 1996. There are lots of “freshmen” (first time) Republican Congressmen who have recently traveled to Washington, DC to take up their new 2-year term in the House. Here is a true story of what happened to one of those congressmen on his trip to DC.
A Congressman was seated next to a little girl on an airplane so he turned to her and said, "Do you want to talk?  Flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger."
The little girl, who had just started to read her book, replied to the total stranger, "What would you want to talk about?"
"Oh, I don't know," said the congressman. "How about global warming, universal health care, or stimulus packages?" as he smiled smugly.
"OK," she said. "Those could be interesting topics but let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same stuff - grass. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, but a horse produces clumps. Why do you suppose that is?"
The legislator, visibly surprised by the little girl's intelligence, thinks about it and says, "Hmmm, I have no idea."
To which the little girl replies, "Do you really feel qualified to discuss global warming, universal health care, or the economy, when you don't know shit?" And then she went back to reading her book.
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Best Joke of the Year - # 8
The Best Pubs are Irish
“As good as this bar is,” said the Scotsman, “I still prefer the pubs back home. In Glasgow, there's a wee place called MacTavish's. The landlord goes out of his way for the locals. When you buy four drinks, he'll buy the fifth drink.”
"Well, Angus," said the Englishman, "At my local in London, the Red Lion, the barman will buy you your third drink after you buy the first two."
"Ahhh, dat's nothin'," said the Irishman, "back home in my favorite pub, the moment you set foot in the place, they'll buy you a drink, then another, all the drinks you like, actually. Then, when you've had enough drinks, they'll take you upstairs and see dat you gets laid, all on the house!"
The Englishman and Scotsman were suspicious of the claims. The Irishman swore every word was true. "Did this actually happen to you, they asked?"
"Not meself, personally, no," admitted the Irishman, "but it did happen to me sister quite a few times ..."
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Best Joke of the Year - # 7
Scottish Cows
The only cow in a small town in Ireland stopped giving milk. The town folk found they could buy a cow in Scotland quite cheaply and brought a cow from Scotland. It produced lots of milk every day and everyone was happy.
They bought a bull to mate with the cow, so that they'd never have to worry about milk again. They put the bull in the pasture with the cow but whenever the bull tried to mount the cow, the cow would move away.. No matter what approach the bull tried, the cow would move away from the bull and he was never able to do the deed.
The people were very upset and decided to go to the wise old Vet and ask his advice. "Whenever the bull tries to mount our cow, she moves away.. If he approaches from the back, she moves forward. When he approaches her from the front, she backs off. If he attempts from the one side, she walks away to the other side."
The Vet rubbed his chin thoughtfully and pondered this before asking, "Did you, by any chance, buy this cow in Scotland?"
The people were dumbfounded; since no one had ever mentioned that they had brought the cow over from Scotland.
"You are truly a wise Vet," they said. "How did you know we got the cow from Scotland?"
The Vet replied with a distant look in his eye, "My wife is from Scotland."
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Best Joke of the Year - # 6
Romantic speech
A man who is sitting at home on the veranda with his wife says, "I love you."
She asks, "Is that you or the beer talking?"
He replies, .................

"It's me... talking to the beer!"
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Best Joke of the Year - # 5
2012 Election Cancelled
Obama Buoyed by 100 Percent Approval Rating
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – In what historians are calling an unprecedented development in American politics, both major parties decided today to cancel the 2012 election.
The decision to scrap the 2012 contest came on the heels of a new poll showing President Barack Obama with an approval rating of one hundred percent, believed to be a record high for an American president.
Mr. Obama even polled well among Republicans, with a majority of GOP voters agreeing with the statement, “I no longer care that he wasn’t born here.”
The new bipartisan spirit sweeping the nation was captured well by House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), who tearfully told reporters, “This is a great day for America… oh, leave me alone, goddamn it.”
Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump made no official announcement, but sources said he was considering running for Prime Minister of Canada.
The cancellation of the election comes in the aftermath of the death of Osama bin Laden, whose last words reportedly were, “I knew I shouldn’t have signed up for Foursquare.”
Of all the major news networks, Fox News did not report news of bin Laden’s death, saying that it would air cartoons “until further notice.”
In Libya, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi issued the following official statement: “Uh-oh.”
In North Korea, President Kim Jong-Il said this: “I have lost my last friend on Facebook.”
And in Wasilla, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said this: “We must find and kill Osama bin Laden.”
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Best Jokes of the Year - # 4
Voted Best Joke in Scotland
John said, "Here's to spending the rest of me life, between the legs of me wife!"
That won him the top prize at the pub for the best toast of the night!
He went home and told his wife, Mary, "I won the prize for the Best toast of the night." She said, "Aye, did ya now? And what was your toast?"
 John said, “Here’s to spending the rest of me life, sitting in church beside me wife."
"Oh, that is very nice indeed, John!" Mary said.
The next day, Mary ran into one of John's drinking buddies on the street corner.
The man chuckled leeringly and said, "John won the prize the other night at the pub with a toast about you, Mary."
She said, "Aye, he told me, and I was a bit surprised myself. You know, he’s only been in there twice in the last four years. Once he fell asleep, and the other time I had to pull him by the ears to make him come."
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Best Jokes of the Year - # 3
Donate Generously this Holiday Season!
A driver was stuck in a traffic jam on the beltway outside Washington, D.C. Nothing was moving. Suddenly, a man knocks on the window.
The driver rolls down the window and asks, "What's going on?"
"Terrorists have kidnapped Congress, and they're asking for a $100 million dollar ransom.
Otherwise, they are going to douse them all in gasoline and set them on fire. We are going from car to car, collecting donations."
"How much is everyone giving, on average?" the driver asks.
The man replies, "Roughly a gallon."
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Best Jokes of the Year - # 2
A Real Woman

A real woman is a man's best friend. She will never stand him up and never let him down.  She will reassure him when he feels insecure and comfort him after a bad day. She will inspire him to do things he never thought he could do; to live without fear and forget regret. She will enable him to express his deepest emotions and give in to his most intimate desires. She will make sure he always feels as though he's the most handsome man in the room and will enable him to be the most confident, sexy, seductive and invincible...
 
No wait...
Sorry. I'm thinking of whiskey.
It's whiskey that does all that shit. Never mind.

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Best Jokes of the Year - # 1
An Encounter with a Homeless Man
A man was walking down the street when he was accosted by a particularly dirty and shabby-looking homeless man who asked him for a couple of dollars for dinner.
The man took out his wallet, extracted ten dollars and asked, "If I give you this money, will you buy some beer with it instead of dinner?"
"No, I had to stop drinking years ago," the homeless man replied.
"Will you use it to go fishing instead of buying food?" the man asked.
"No, I don't waste time fishing," the homeless man said. "I need to spend all my time trying to stay alive."
"Will you spend this on greens' fees at a golf course instead of food?" the man asked.
"Are you NUTS!" replied the homeless man. "I haven't played golf in 20 years!"
"Will you spend the money on a woman in the red light district instead of food?" the man asked.
"What disease would I get for ten lousy bucks?" exclaimed the homeless man.
"Well," said the man, "I'm not going to give you the money. Instead, I'm going to take you home for a terrific dinner cooked by my wife."
The homeless man was astounded. "Won't your wife be furious with you for doing that? I know I'm dirty and I probably smell pretty disgusting."
The man replied, "That's okay. It's important for her to see what a man looks like after he has given up beer, fishing, golf and sex."
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Hope you are all enjoying the end of year holidays and maybe some time off from real work!
As we bid farewell to 2011, I take this opportunity to wish you all a very healthy and happy 2012 and a wish that you accomplish all that you hope to in this new year that dawns in a few days!
TGI-Jeff