I'm one of those people who have always loved to tell jokes. When I meet a friend the greeting is always the same: Got a new one? Or, got any one-liners? People call me on the phone to tell me jokes, sometimes it's long distance.

I guess it's kind of hereditary--my father was always telling jokes. My mother said he was telling jokes to the nurses in the hospital the morning he died.

My jokes come from many sources: Nite Clubs, Television, Radio, Magazines and person to person. Someone said there are only seven different jokes and the rest are all some form of duplication, so it is impossible to steal a joke, they just got it from someone else. I don't claim to have any original jokes, just ones that I've heard that appeal to me.

I have never told a dirty joke, I don't like to use bad words. The implication is sometimes there, but not any foul words, so if I offend anyone, I'm truly sorry.

Some of these jokes I told in high school and have since seen them printed many times, so if someone complains I stole his joke, where did he get it?

--Doc Smith

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The above is the introductory passage from my grandfather's joke book which was published in small quantity during the early eighties. Although I didn't have much of an opportunity to get to know him, his wonderful sense of humor lives on in me, as well as my entire family. He was the sort of person that liked to make people smile, whether with a joke, an antic, or a bit of piano playing.

I've spent many evenings reading and re-reading his written collection, and just as many listening to family members tell gems that eluded publication.

This website is for my mother, who sends me several jokes via email daily, as well as for my entire family and anyone who ever liked to tell a good joke.

--J.F. Squibb