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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539038" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Played-Out Humorist</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Quixotic is his enterprise, and hopeless his adventure is,<br>Who seeks for jocularities that haven't yet been said.<br>The world has joked incessantly for over fifty centuries,<br>And every joke that's possible has long ago been made.<br>I started as a humorist with lots of mental fizziness,<br>But humour is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse;<br>For my stock-in-trade, my fixtures, and the goodwill of the<br>business<br>No reasonable offer I am likely to refuse.<br>And if anybody choose<br>He may circulate the news<br>That no reasonable offer I'm likely to refuse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh happy was that humorist - the first that made a pun at all -<br>Who when a joke occurred to him, however poor and mean,<br>Was absolutely certain that it never had been done at all -<br>How popular at dinners must that humorist have been!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh the days when some stepfather for the query held a handle out,<br>The door-mat from the scraper, is it distant very far?<br>And when no one knew where Moses was when Aaron blew the candle<br>out,<br>And no one had discovered that a door could be a-jar!<br>But your modern hearers are<br>In their tastes particular,<br>And they sneer if you inform them that a door can be a-jar!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In search of quip and quiddity, I've sat all day, alone, apart -<br>And all that I could hit on as a problem was - to find<br>Analogy between a scrag of mutton and a Bony-part,<br>Which offers slight employment to the speculative mind:<br>For you cannot call it very good, however great your charity -<br>It's not the sort of humour that is greeted with a shout -<br>And I've come to the conclusion that my mine of jocularity<br>In present Anno Domini, is worked completely out!<br>Though the notion you may scout,<br>I can prove beyond a doubt<br>That my mine of jocularity is utterly worked out.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Schwenck+Gilbert">William Schwenck Gilbert</a><div class=q>
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Who seeks for jocularities that haven't yet been said.
The world has joked incessantly for over fifty centuries,
And every joke that's possible has long ago been made.
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