100 Years of Jokes (Reader’s Digest)

100 Funniest Jokes of All Time | Reader's Digest (rd.com); Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

"Make me one with everything," oh ho ho! Now I get it. After explain to me, now I get. Pizza!

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Man, Lisa was really onto something.

Humor has certainly evolved over the years, yet many jokes manage to withstand the test of time.

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of Reader’s Digest, the RD team of humor-loving editors combed the archives to come up with this collection of the 100 best jokes published in the magazine since 1922.

["Two Flappers walk into a room. It’s the Roaring Twenties! So one growls and the other does the Bees Knees dance." Is it funny? Things were different back then. Who hasn't seen that Leo DiCaprio F. Scott Fitzgerald movie, The Great Gatsby?]

Woo-hoo! - Hang Ten on that board, Budai!

In fact, RD couldn’t stop itself, so readers will actually find more than 100. If a century’s worth of humor isn’t enough, there’s even more to explore in Reader’s Digest — whether tastes lean toward

• hopelessly corny jokes,
• easily remembered short jokes, or
• irresistibly bad jokes [but nothing too blue].

And if anyone is looking for that special someone to share favorite jokes with, RD’s collection of funny pickup lines might come in handy.

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Buddha Statue found in Afghanistan

"Buddha statue find at Afghan site"

(BBC News, 9/8/08)

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Taliban dynamited Bamiyan Buddha statues in 2001 (AFP).

A giant statue of a Buddha has been discovered in central Afghanistan, near to the ruins of the world-famous Bamiyan Buddhas.

Archaeologists say the 62 ft. statue is in a sleeping position and dates back to the 3rd Cen-tury. Other relics such as coins and ceramics were also found. In 2001, the Taliban blew up two giant standing Buddhas carved into the mountainside at Bamiyan -- once a thriving center of Buddhism.

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[Afghanistan was in a sense part of ancient "India," a region known as Gandhara. Examples of Buddhist statuary from this period, which exhibit Greco-Roman features and togas, can be found at: Norton Simon. Buddhism extended far to the west to at least Greece and north to Russia].

The statues, the tallest such standing Buddhas in the world at the time, were considered by the Taliban to be un-Islamic representations of the human form. Archaeologists are working on restoring the larger of the two Buddhas [that were blown up] in a project that is expected to take a decade.

• VIDEO: BBC in Bamiyan
• STORY: Afghanistan today

A local official in Bamiyan said the newly found statue had been badly damaged, but some parts of it, such as the neck and right hand, were in a good condition. He said measures were being taken to protect it, and it was hoped the statue would go on public display next year.

The latest find gives hope to archaeologists searching for a 900 ft. long statue recorded by a Chinese pilgrim centuries ago. Iconic Buddhist art works, now thought to be the oldest oil paintings in the world, have also been found in the caves at Bamiyan.

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Gandhara-style Buddha detail (Norton Simon)