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    Jokes Cracked By Lord Aberdeen
    Jokes Cracked By Lord Aberdeen
    Jokes Cracked By Lord Aberdeen
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    Jokes Cracked By Lord Aberdeen

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    For decades Jokes Cracked by Lord Aberdeen has been one of the most sought-after out-of-print books; it has become something of a cult classic. Now, it’s available once more.

    An Independent Comedy Book of the Year 2013

    This beautiful facsimile edition brings Lord Aberdeen’s dour attempts at humour to a new generation.

    With elegant illustrations and an introduction from comedy writer John Finnemore, this is the perfect book for anyone in need of a good laugh.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateNov 7, 2013
    ISBN9780007532360
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      Jokes Cracked By Lord Aberdeen - Lord Aberdeen

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      JOHN CAMPBELL HAMILTON-GORDON

      1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, Earl of Aberdeen,

      KT GCMG GCVO PC

      Jokes Cracked by Lord Aberdeen

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      CONTENTS

      Cover

      Title Page

      Introduction

      Foreword

      Jokes Cracked by Lord Aberdeen

      About the Author

      Derek Charles Eyles

      The Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair

      Did You Know …

      Find Out More

      Copyright

      About the Publisher

      INTRODUCTION

      By John Finnemore

      I suspect you have picked up this book for the same reason I did. I may of course be doing you a terrible injustice – it may be that you’re a huge fan of Scotland’s foremost late-Victorian aristocratic comic, and have been counting the days until this chance to revel again in some of his classic gags. However, I suspect that you, like me, picked up this book because the cover made you laugh. And I further suspect that the reason the cover made you laugh was because you couldn’t imagine that his Lordship ever could.

      I mean, look at him. That shaggy beard, that granite face, that forage cap. It’s hard to picture the Most Honourable John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair ever even cracking a smile, far less a joke. And it’s that word ‘cracked’, I think, that makes the title so funny. These aren’t just jokes he knew, or even jokes he told … these are the jokes Lord Aberdeen cracked. Immediately, you picture a cavernous banqueting hall, moth-eaten stag’s heads are gazing down at the shivering guests, glumly chewing their tatties … when, suddenly, a strange glassy look comes into the eye of their host. His moustache twitches. His wife, ever-alert to the warning signs, stifles a sob and flees from the room. The guests are not so lucky. With a wag of his finger, Lord Aberdeen alerts his ancient butler, who staggers over to ring the brass bell that has been installed for just this purpose. ‘Pray silence,’ he intones. ‘His Lairdship wishes to crack a joke.’ Lord Aberdeen rises to his feet, clears his throat seven or eight times, and says something like this:

      ‘A young man had occasion to move from where he had hitherto lived, to another district. He had been associated with Presbyterians in his former abode, but it occurred to the clergyman of the Episcopal Church in the neighbourhood that the young man might suitably be invited to become a member of that Church. This was accomplished; but not long afterwards it transpired that he was about to join the Roman Catholics. On hearing this a friend of the

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