The History of this Page
These inspirations had humble beginnings in the last century, specifically the 1990’s. At that time I was collecting and compiling “thoughts of the day”, “messages of the day” and “electronic fortune cookies” that could be displayed randomly on an AS/400 green-screen. Many of the original messages included references to AS/400s, green-screens, listings, floppy disks, profit sharing, 401Ks, ESOPs, RPG, COBOL and other relics of a by-gone era. Oddly enough, COBOL is making a resurgence in 2020, showing that Life can have a sense of humor even in the darkest times. When Coronavirus or COVID-19 hit our world in 2020, I started collecting what I thought to be appropriate pandemic jokes when it became clear that many people were looking for a humorous way to deal with this terrible scourge. Please like or dislike as you wish, but I hope that most will bring an idea to your head, hope to your heart or a smile to your face.
"You can fool some of the people all of the time,
and all of the people some of the time,
but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
-- Abraham Lincoln