Joke Recycling
How to Recycle Your Old Jokes With Fresh New Material Recycling your old jokes to make them more current? Here's a trick that might just work! As an example, this is a joke from 2009 that will get them laughing: After noticing a dip in the quality of the food at his restaurant, the manager asked his head chef for an explanation. “We’ve had to make cuts,” the chef said. “We can’t buy the best of everything any more because the financial director has said that we can’t afford it.” “He said that, did he?” said the manager. “He told me that we have a budget for salaries, a budget for all the overheads, and a budget for the rent. After all that, there’s no accounting for taste.” Photo courtesy of Blue moon in her eyes Now, everyone would agree that that's a funny joke. But simply add the following line to the end of that old 2009 joke about the ongoing recession, to make it even more up-to-date: “Why don’t we buy some of that cheap horsemeat?" piped up the manager. "Pe...