If a joke is funny, it gets spread. If a person gets a bunch of jokes, they tack them together and they get spread. And if a subject happens (a scandal, a tragedy, an election) then the jokes about that event get tacked together and spread as well.
What you end up with, then, are these massive files of very disparate joke clusters, bound only because someone thought they were funny or someone had a thing for light-bulb jokes. Therefore, there are probably tons of doubles and triples and what have you in this collection, and there's just not enough time in the day to sort them. So this whole directory is a bit of a crapshoot. On the other hand, it IS funny.
| Filename | Size | Description of the Textfile| 1more.jok | 1877 | I Was Out Rock Climbing with my Wife Estelle
| abuser.txt | 10950 | The Best Ways to Abuse a BBS by The Joker
| adver_tr.uth | 798 | Odd Circumcision Joke
| altuniv.jok | 1908 | My Car Salesman Now Works for the Airlines!
| american.eng | 1010 | An Old English Couple Meet a New York Cabbie
| amusing.jok | 1218 | The Old Moonshiner's Last Stand
| answer.jok | 25579 | A Collection of Answering Machine Jokes
| answerin.mac | 43121 | Complete listing of Answering Machine Messages
| answerin.txt | 43806 | Additional Funny Answering Machine Messages
| apt.hum | 1564 | So there's this businessman and this chorus girl....
| are_you.gay | 1776 | Are you Gay? Get off the Plane!
| asstalk | 2887 | Did I ever Tell You About the Man Who Taught His Asshole to Talk?
| auto.hum | 3866 | Funny Auto Insurance claims
| aviation.jok | 81197 | Large Collection of Flying Jokes
| awful.jokes | 7781 | A Collection of Truly Awful Jokes
| babyjoke.txt | 4035 | A Bunch of Dead Baby Jokes
| babypics.txt | 4192 | So SHE's expecting a government employee to provide sex, and he wants to take a picture, and oh, I'm telling it wrong, aren't I?
| bad.jok | 1312 | You can tell it's going to be a rotten day when.....
| bad.jokes | 20509 | The Ruins of the Bad-Joke Mailing List of 1979
| bad_jo.kes | 21168 | Very Large Collection of Jokes Claiming to be from a 1979 Mailing List
| badpie.jok | 937 | The Woman Who Made Bad Pies
| badtaste.txt | 1841 | Gross Joke involving a Patent for an Apple
| band.jok | 3162 | Flyer for the Either/Orchestra
| bath.jks | 30208 | Collection of Gross/Unpleasant/Racist/Sexist Jokes
| bc-jokes.txt | 19906 | 111 Slick Willy Clinton Jokes
| bears.jok | 1689 | A Couple of Bear Jokes
| belboard.inf | 135763 | Large Collection of Shaggy Dog Humor
| best.frt | 72390 | The Best of the Fortunes
| best1001.asc | 24998 | 1001 of the Best Jokes (Well, OK, not quite 1001)
| best1002.asc | 28577 | A Large Grab-Bag of Jokes of Shaggy Dog Stories
| bigjokes | 594917 | Large Collection of All Sorts of Jokes
| bike.jok | 1411 | The Really Fast Bike Rider
| blind.jok | 901 | The Blind Man's Dog
| blond.msg | 29177 | Collection of Blonde Jokes
| blond111.txt | 12130 | Radio Free Milwaukee's 111 Blonde Jokes
| blonde.txt | 66046 | The "Complete" Set of Blonde Jokes, December 15, 1992
| blondej2.txt | 15407 | Blonde Jokes, compiuled by Mr. Noise (April 25, 1992)
| blondejokes.hum | 13505 | 125 Blonde Jokes
| blondes | 29005 | Large Collection of Blonde Jokes
| blondes.txt | 5875 | Collection of Blonde Jokes
| blondjok.txt | 15872 | 150 Blonde Jokes
| blonds.jks | 30208 | The "Complete" Set of Blonde Jokes (202)
| book.txt | 74754 | MISC: Another Collection of Bad Jokes
| book2.txt | 50180 | Collection of Bad Jokes
| boytrain.jok | 1447 | The Little Boy and the Train
| brownies.jok | 2039 | Recipe for Mom's Brownies
| bulb.txt | 39040 | Another Canonical Collection of Light Bulb Jokes
| bulbjoke.txt | 4210 | Very large Collection of Lightbulb Jokes
| bulbs.txt | 23958 | Large Collection of Light-Bulb Jokes
| bumpstick | 3107 | Bumper Stickers Seen on the Information Superhighway
| byujokes.txt | 16384 | Brigham Young University Jokes
| c.hum | 1736 | Murphy's Laws
| calctest.hum | 2511 | Answers to the Calculus Final, by a Concerned and Resourceful Student
| cate.jok | 577465 | Complete Random Collection of Jokes
| cathjews.jok | 1584 | The Jewish Kid Got the Point at Catholic School
| chickens.jok | 3892 | How Many Generic Chickens Can You Fit Into a Generic Pontiac?
| chinmenu.jok | 2776 | Wun Hung Lo Chinese Restaurant
| clinton.jok | 99067 | Very Large Collection of Clinton Jokes
| cokkies.hum | 2792 | Some bad cookies from the Works BBS
| complove.jok | 1889 | Hacker Wants to Marry His Computer, from The Sun, (January 17, 1989)
| computer.txt | 3243 | The Story of the Computer Medical Analyzer
| condom.jok | 16385 | The Large Collection of Condom Jokes and Articles
| condoms.jok | 684 | Condoms Sold and Fitted!
| conduct.txt | 2733 | A Shaggy Dog Story With Absolutely No Bananas!
| cookie.1 | 33745 | Karl Lehenbauer's Fortune Cookie File
| cookieii.hum | 62792 | Quip Snips, by William D. Tammeus
| cricket.jok | 1059 | Cricket Match Which is Funnier than Baseball
| crmation.jok | 607 | The Dubiously True Cremation Joke
| cute.say | 4793 | Collection of Cute Sayings
| dahmer.jok | 2122 | The Complete Jeffrey Dahmer Jokes List
| dahmer.txt | 1828 | Collection of Jeffrey Dahmer Jokes (Cannibalism, etc.)
| dangwild.jok | 1360 | Egad! The Mosquitos are BIG!
| date.txt | 5946 | More than 50 Ways to Get Rid of Blind Dates (And other Social Catastrophes)
| deck.txt | 11161 | The Very Last "Doesn't Have a Full Deck" List
| devildic | 13873 | Collection of Definitions from the Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
| dinner.jok | 570 | Trying to Help the Chinese Man Next to Her
| dinosaur.jok | 1607 | A Large Collection of Dinosaur Jokes
| dinosaur.txt | 1185 | A Large Selection of DINOSAUR JOKES
| drivers.jok | 1498 | The Wall Street Reports on Dummies in the HOV Lane
| easter.jok | 1383 | What is EASTER?
| echomai2.txt | 16348 | Blonde Jokes #3, 1991
| elephant.txt | 5655 | A Large Collection of Elephant Jokes
| elephant2.txt | 2835 | |