A new year joke. Don’t all laugh at once

I found this in a magnificent book of old Punch Cartoons given to me by my ex-wife and friend Pam.


The book has convinced me that few things wear as badly as yesterday’s jokes. But it does contain an enormous amount of fascinating social history – and some subjects seem funny to all generations.

There’s a remarkable number of jokes about downtrodden husbands and other traditional subjects. This one from John Leech – which did make me smile slightly – dates back over 150 years. Since my son Nick has just got engaged to a beautiful girl from Dundee, and the new year is always associated with Scotland, it seems pretty timely, and has nothing to do with the fact that I have a Scots client who owes me a few thousand quid.

Having got that off my chest, a happy New Year to all of you.

About the Author

In 2003, the Chartered Institute of Marketing named Drayton one of 50 living individuals who have shaped today’s marketing.

He has worked in 55 countries with many of the world’s greatest brands. These include American Express, Audi, Bentley, British Airways, Cisco, Columbia Business School, Deutsche Post, Ford, IBM, McKinsey, Mercedes, Microsoft, Nestle, Philips, Procter & Gamble, Toyota, Unilever, Visa and Volkswagen.

Drayton has helped sell everything from Airbus planes to Peppa Pig. His book, Commonsense Direct and Digital Marketing, out in 17 languages, has been the UK’s best seller on the subject every year since 1982. He has also run his own businesses in the U.K., Portugal and Malaysia.

He was a main board member of the Ogilvy Group, a founding member of the Superbrands Organisation, one of the first eight Honorary Fellows of the Institute of Direct Marketing and one of the first three people named to the Hall of Fame of the Direct Marketing Association of India. He has also been given Lifetime Achievement Awards by the Caples Organisation in New York and Early To Rise in Florida.

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  2. John Counsel

    I'm no Oriental porn spammer like the previous commenter, but I confess to having an occasional enjoyment of 19th century cartoons.

    As always, the moment one expresses such an idiosyncrasy, friends and family quickly inundate one with books of boundlessly-bad examples, especially during the festive season.

    So I have a library of such books to while away the dreaded hours of insomnia that beset me from time to time. I'm not sure that they're all that effective a cure, but they're better than the late night-early morning movies and infomercials that serve as an alternative.

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  3. Drayton Bird

    Gotta love the Chinese assumption that the power of lust will help you learn another language

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  4. Peter

    Well this cartoon gave me a chuckle. But, yes, some do not travel through time very well. I remember one joke about a couple who used to make love to the sound of the church bells. They were found dead one day after a fire engine went passed. Meaningless unless you know it dates from a time when fire engines had a bell instead of the two tone horn. 🙂

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