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 Post subject: Italian Cookies
PostPosted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 9:38 am 
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ITALIAN COOKIES
An elderly Italian man lay dying in his bed. While suffering the
agonies of impending death, he suddenly smelled the aroma of his favorite
Italian anisette sprinkle cookies wafting up the stairs.
He gathered his remaining strength, and lifted himself from the bed.
Leaning against the wall, he slowly made his way out of the bedroom,
and with even greater effort, gripping the railing with both hands, he
crawled downstairs. With labored breath, he leaned against the doorframe
gazing into the kitchen.
Were it not for death's agony, he would have thought himself
already in heaven, for there, spread out upon waxed paper on the kitchen
table were literally hundreds of his favorite anisette sprinkle cookies .
Was it heaven? Or was it one final act of heroic love from his
devoted Italian wife of sixty years, seeing to it that he left this world
a happy man?
Mustering one great final effort, he threw himself towards the
table, landing on his knees in a rumpled posture. His parched lips
parted, the wondrous taste of the cookie was already in his mouth, seemingly
bringing him back to life. The aged and withered hand trembled on its way to
a cookie at the edge of the table, when it was suddenly smacked with a spatula
by his wife...
"Back off!" she said, "They're for the funeral.


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PostPosted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 9:44 am 
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I've heard this joke with an old German couple. Must be a popular sentiment (and I can totally see my great grandmother doing this...).


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PostPosted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 1:50 pm 
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Garrison Keillor tells it as an "Ole and Lena" joke. "Those're for the funeral!" is shorthand around here for "Hands off the cookies, Bub."


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PostPosted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 2:15 pm 
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I just read some of the Ole and Lena jokes. Too funny.


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