What's So Funny about Getting Old?

by Jane Noland, Jane T. Noland, Jane Thomas Noland, et al.

Book Overview

Middle-aged and appalled by the march of youth culture? This collection of cartoons, quips, quotations, and insights capture the humour of real-life situation comedies, the generation gap, health... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881662232
• ISBN13: 9780881662238
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Meadowbrook Press
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The charm of laughing at my growing physical and mental deficiencies.

Getting old is inevitable but enjoying life is not, it must be worked at. One of the most effective ways to maintain the enjoyment is to laugh about things. Most of the things that happen to you as you age must be laughed at, for if you don't they will tend to depress you. Therefore, jokes about growing sensitivity of the joints, lack of stamina, failure of the senses and all of the other signs of advanced maturity are a necessity. This book contains many jokes in that genre and while there were none that generated outright hysterics, all of them brought a smile to my face. While I am not yet dealing with the source material of most of these jokes, I can see them ahead, even without my glasses. I enjoyed this book, both for the look ahead and the charm of laughing at my growing physical and mental deficiencies.