Old Jokes’ Home Celebrating Tell an Old Joke Day with Victorian gallows humor, cholera jokes, puns, and heartlessness.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
July 24, 2018
in Crime , Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged antique jokes , bustle jokes , choking with mirth , cholera jokes , false hair jokes , gallows humor , morbid jokes , old jokes , Old Jokes' Home , painful humor , painful joke , sick jokes , spiritualist jokes , Tell an Old Joke Day , Victorian humor , Victorian jokes
Today’s post on “The Black Death” has nothing to do with plague, rats or gerbils. Nor does it deal with the fortean phenomena surrounding cholera pandemics. Instead I bring you–cholera jokes.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
February 28, 2015
in Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , News , Panics , Social History , Victorian
and tagged cholera jokes , cholera morbus , cholera pandemics , medical jokes , tasteless jokes
