Friday, Aug. 06, 1965

You're Entitled

Perhaps it's the heat. Or maybe the humidity. Whatever the cause, people everywhere are coming down with a highly contagious disease--the latest running gag. Right now it is the Thinnest Books, a joke started by Comedian Morey Amsterdam. Thin books are insults between covers, and thinking them up is as hard to resist as a second handful of peanuts. Samples:

My Future in Boxing, by Sonny Listen

The Joys of Retirement, by Nikita Khrushchev

Growing Old Gracefully, by Little Orphan Annie

Memoirs of a Lonely Boyhood, by Robert Kennedy

My Years in the White House, by Barry Goldwater

Some are anonymous:

Friends of Charles de Gaulle

War Heroes of Italy

Who's Who in Tijuana

Laundries That Sew Buttons Back On

Friends Who Ask You to Bring Your Kids Along

Psychoanalysts Who Tell You You're Cured

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