JOKES, JOKES, AND MORE JOKES - HAVE SOME FUN.!!

Where do you find this stuff???

Hey girl...
I keep a thread started with a series of replies. I start it and then save it as a "Draft" - It's one of the options you can use at the bottom of the "reply" page or the "thread'' page instead of posting the reply. It saves to your "User Control Panel". I keep a backlog of different posts available for different threads.....such as  "word of the day", "jokes', "historical facts", "english usage", etc, etc...  When I find something, I "edit" the draft, add the new thing, then save it back again as a draft. That way it's always available when I want it. --- PLUS... If you save as a "draft" every paragraph or so, you don't lose everything when your computer 'burps' or the Internet goes "down", as mine does occasionally. I can't count the number of posts, emails, etc., that I've 'lost' due to RUD... That's modern verbiage for Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly.

As far as 'where' they come from --- It varies...A LOT. A lot of the gen info stuff comes from books I read. I try to include a proper note that indicates where I found it. (Not a proper citation, of course--mainly because it's already 'out there' in the ether.
As far as the jokes go.... Most of them are just out there 'floating around'. I usually happen across them during a Google search for something. These latest ones came from a search on NFL Rules and the CBA. The search returned a lot of data, including a Reddit and sub-reddit listing with a bunch of key words. One of those words was "joke", so I looked at it. It was worthless as far as my initial query was concerned, but there were a couple of jokes there that I had to 'clean up' a little bit - then I saved them to my "Draft" post. I just recently posted them after modifying slightly for cleaner language and better usage. Thats where 'most' of them come from. Online queries lead me somewhere and a joke pops up along the way. If it seems good and "appropriate", I save it.

I treat "quotes" and "words" and "English usage' stuff like anecdotes, idioms, adages, the same way. But frankly, a very large portion of that type of material comes from my reading. I do most of my reading on a Kindle. Amazon has a decent system in place that advises if I have already purchased a specific book when I'm looking at it. I know that may seem silly or redundant, but when you're dealing with thousands (literally) of books, it's impossible to remember all of them. Anyway as part of that system, Amazon allows you to digitally annotate each book as you read by 'highlighting' passages, words, quotes, etc. Then later those annotated passages are available to you on your Amazon account, listed chronologically with the latest book at the top...So, I have a ready supply of "strange and unusual" words as well as a significant number of quotes, and historical tidbits.

I think I mentioned this previously (maybe before you joined us..??), but I also keep a lot of older, possibly 'dated' material in spiral bound notebooks. I have a double-handful of these notebooks somewhere around here that date back over thirty years - actually quite a bit farther back than that. They're full of English sayings and adages and other anecdotal information from various schools and employment over the years. I don't use them too much these days because it's easier to look up something than to search for the 'correct' notebook. Between what I find online and travels to University libraries when I need assistance, I can 'usually' find what I need - or some semblance of it anyway...

SIDE NOTE: I've saved this post as a draft three times before posting it. If I were to have lost it, I would still have most of it in draft form, so I could redo the last part of it and continue on.  AND... You're welcome to tell me that I'm too wordy. I realize that. But you're welcome to tell me anyway. I'm wearing my flame-retardant pants today..!