Agnes by Tony Cochran for December 07, 2016

“Aside from that, Mrs. Plato, how was the…. um….. how does that one go again?

I…. uh……

Ok….yeah….

Funny thing happened on the way to the forum…….

or…. er…. to Gettysburg……

or…. something…..

something something… and there was a chicken…

cos chickens are always funny…..

…

Right?

I’ve read that Lincoln actually had a great sense of humor as a young man and could tell a decent joke.

I admire the creativity of Agnes and Trout. Not good decisions at times. But creative.

Lincoln, Lincoln what you drinking?

Tastes like whisky

Smell like wine

Oh my god, it’s turpentine!

that’s the only Lincoln limerick I remember

Bob Newhart did a routine once where Lincoln’s speechwriter was trying to punch up the Gettysburg address with a few jokes.

The Lincoln-themed limericks that I’ve found online are pretty benign. A Confederate sympathizer must have written the one to which Trout refers.

gzitver said,

“The Lincoln-themed limericks that I’ve found online are pretty benign.”

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Maybe just the name:

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There was a young lady of Lincoln

Who said that her xxxx was a pink’un,

So she had a xxxxx lent her

Which turned it magenta,

This artful old lady of Lincoln.

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(I’m just guessing, never tell them meself.)

The was a very tall man named LincolnWho took to some serious drinkin’A vodka hereAnd a bourbon thereAnd soon he was really stinkin’.