History Jokes, Short Funny Stories and Famous Anecdotes2010-03-10T23:23:56ZHistory Jokes and Funny StoriesCopyright 2010, History Jokes and Funny StoriesSPHPBLOGFamous quote about the British Empire with a clever addendum From "The Jest Book"]]>http://history.inrebus.com/index.php?entry=entry100303-2345582010-03-03T00:00:00Z2010-03-03T00:00:00ZTed Williams - baseball player for the Boston Red Sox Ted Williams was an avid fisherman and was very knowledgable on the subject. He once told a Boston sportswriter that there was noone who knew more about fishing than he did. The writer replied, "Sure there is. God, who made the fish." "Yeah, all right," conceded Williams. "But you had to go pretty far back."]]>http://history.inrebus.com/index.php?entry=entry090520-2041472009-05-20T00:00:00Z2009-05-20T00:00:00ZMae West-American actress (1930's) When asked how she was so familiar with the ways of men, Mae West responded, "Baby, I went to night school".]]>http://history.inrebus.com/index.php?entry=entry090520-2040512009-05-20T00:00:00Z2009-05-20T00:00:00ZXerxes--King of Persiahttp://history.inrebus.com/index.php?entry=entry090520-2039072009-05-20T00:00:00Z2009-05-20T00:00:00ZPrince Felix Yusupov--conspirator in the murder of Rasputin in 1916http://history.inrebus.com/index.php?entry=entry090520-2037452009-05-20T00:00:00Z2009-05-20T00:00:00ZMark Twain's pious remark ]]>http://history.inrebus.com/index.php?entry=entry090519-2044312009-05-19T00:00:00Z2009-05-19T00:00:00ZPresident Truman and his economistshttp://history.inrebus.com/index.php?entry=entry090519-2043162009-05-19T00:00:00Z2009-05-19T00:00:00ZLeon Trotsky--Russian Revolutionary ]]>http://history.inrebus.com/index.php?entry=entry090519-2042172009-05-19T00:00:00Z2009-05-19T00:00:00ZPrince Philip-Husband of Queen Elizabeth IIEarly on in their marriage, Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip were crossing the water to Vancouver Island in Canada. The weather was unsettled and the ship was rocking violent. Just as a young petty officer arrived in the royal suite, the ship lurched and the tray of tea cakes he was holding fell to the floor. Surprisingly, Philip jumped onto his hands and knees and helped to gather them up. After retrieving a handful of cakes he returned to his seat and turned to Elizabeth and playfully remarked, "I've got mine--yours are down there."
Prince Philip was visiting an Australian University where he was introduced to a couple identified as "Mr & Dr. Robinson". The husband explained, "My wife is a doctor of philosophy. She is much more important than I." Prince Philip sympathetically replied, "Ah, yes. We have that trouble in our family, too." ]]>http://history.inrebus.com/index.php?entry=entry090519-2041442009-05-19T00:00:00Z2009-05-19T00:00:00ZLeo Tolstoy - practical pacifism. ]]>http://history.inrebus.com/index.php?entry=entry090519-1422202009-05-19T00:00:00Z2009-05-19T00:00:00Z