>If you are offended by political jokes read no further!
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>The following is my own creation and I hope you get a chuckle out of it.
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>For months we have been told that Bush and Kerry are tied in the Presidential Polls. The question arose, “How are these polls conducted”? After researching this issue the following information came to light. The pollsters ask Bush family members!

This takes a lot of courage, or is this a completely different culture... I'm amazed.

In my neck of the woods, one never, never and really never admits to have invented a joke. A joke loses all credibility if you know the author - it hasn't even been retold yet! If you want to pass one of yours, you begin with "what a one I heard yesterday on the bus"... for some reason, the bus is the source of most credible jokes.

I admitted to have coined a few in my time, but did so only after the regular cycle of seven years or so, when you can start telling the same jokes again, because they're all forgotten. As the proverb goes, "there are no old jokes, there are only old people". And when I admitted autorship, I got the best credit I could ask for: nobody believed these were mine. They became a part of the general lore. And I've done my homework since: I've completely forgotten which jokes were those :).