HUMOR AND CORVALLIS, OREGON
Corvallis has always had an easy relationship with the nation's humorists. H. Ross Browne, the earliest if the western humorists who served as a role model for Mark Twain wrote of the countryside here as "Paradise for men and dogs but hard on horses and women". Twain himself wrote about Corvallis and the father of Rex Clemens, founder of the once- worshipped Clemens foundation which gave scholarships to all local (Philomath and othr towns) high school graduates until Rex died and his in-laws instituted a right wing political litmus test. The legendary Jack Benny performed for soldiers at Camp Adair, and the performance was recorded and is available yet. But, discussing humor with old Corvallis residents, one name has consistently come up, that of Will Rogers.
WILL ROGERS ON THE PROHIBITION ACT FORBIDDING ALCOHOL
I saw a box of Armours Meat drop off an
express wagon and broke every bottle,
Prohibition has done some very good things in the road building line, It has
been the cause of more road improvement between dry and wet towns than any other
thing,
If you want good roads leading out of your town vote it wet and the surrounding
towns will fix up your roads,
Bad roads have broke more bottles of booze than the authorities,
The Prohibitionists put the bill through as a food saving device, And it has
certainly been a success, Its made food so high people cant eat it,
The poorer people will have to go to Europe this summer to escape the high
prices over here,
It looks like we would have to have another war for things to get cheap like
they used to be during the last one,
And they still allow these Prohibitionists to eat, You know a drinking man he
dont eat much and the more he drinks the less he eats but these Prohibitionists
they just naturally ruin a meal,
Prohibitionists dispose of enough food just before speaking engagements to feed
all the starving Armenians in the world,11
The amount of time and energy consumed by Prohibitionists in speaking if put to
a legitimate business would cut everybodys average work day down to 4 hours,
But the minute they get Prohibition they will hop on to something else it will
be Cigarettes or room and bath, or something
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2.
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3.
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comedy.com
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9.
Humor.com
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Hecklers Online
A Home town man's site, with a great deal of humor.