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joe-ks.com
Largest Source of Internet Humour!
Q: I like the new Home Page, but how do I do find your Trivia, Riddles and Kids Rids -
and the view of the thumbnail images that you had on your previous Home Page?
A: You're referring to the rollout of our new Home Page on May 2, 2014. I've kept the previous Home Page format intact (i.e. prior to May 2, 2014), and you can still go to that previous format by either of the following:
- selecting Menu Option: Joe-ks / Newest; or
- use the URL:
http://www.joe-ks.com/newest.htm.
Take a look at the daily postings - at the very top there are now TWO options: for instance, using Duck Gears as a reference, you can see there are two links now in the very top:
- joe-ks.com (which goes to the most recent home page); and
- Newest (which goes to the view you were previously used to).
Why did I make the change?
Way too many people thought that the old Home Page was too cluttered and had way too much stuff on it... can't please everyone, BUT I did try to please everyone by
keeping the previous view live as well as implementing the new Home Page -
both views are the same, and regularly updated...
Q: What's with the flashing red light on the home page?
A: In November 2015 we added a one-on-one Chat session using the excellent talk.to app. It's not only on the top of the home page (as you've noted), but also on daily page posts. The idea is similar to the red 'hot light' at Krispee Kreme donuts, except that when you see the red light flashing @ joe-ks.com it means that the Joe-kster is available for one-on-one chats.
Q: How many categories do you have on your site?
A: As of May 2014 we have more than 160 categories, and we're constantly adding to the list. You can find links to all of these categories at the bottom of the new Home Page.
Q: Where can I find your new Word Search puzzles?
A: Here's the link for our Word Search Puzzles.
Q: A friend of mine mentioned that your site has more than ten thousand Inspiration, Fear and General Quotes - where can I find them?
A: You can find them using the menu @ top of the Home Page: Word Play / Quotes, or
here's the direct link for our Quotes
and you may want to check out the Phrase section for interesting Phrase Origins.
Q: I'm looking for a list of Phobias - can you help me?
A: We have more than 1,000 Phobia Fears...
Q: “Do you have an RSS Feed service? I'd
like to receive all your latest joe-ks and Sudoku Puzzles
as soon as they're published...”
A: June 2007 - We've just added RSS Feeds
for (A) our
daily groaner joe-ks,
(B) our
daily Riddles; and (C)
our
daily 100% unique & original Sudoku Puzzles
...
RSS Feed
Information - how you can setup an RSS Feed

RSS Feed for
New Groaners by
joe-ks.com

(if you're just
looking for our RSS Feed URL for new joe-ks, click on any RSS icon or 'RSS FEED' above...)
RSS Feed for
New Sudoku Puzzles by
joe-ks.com

(if you're just
looking for our RSS Feed URL for new Sudoku Puzzles, click on any RSS icon or 'RSS FEED' above...)
RSS Feed for
New Riddle of the Day by
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(if you're just
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Q: “Where are your latest
Sudoku puzzles?”
A: In December 2007 we introduced our new Sudoku
site
www.suJoku.com
suJoku? suDoku by Joe!
Q: “Do you have an FAQ section for your
Sudoku puzzles?”
A: Go to
Sudoku
Puzzle FAQ Section
Q:
“Where does 'joe-ks' come from?”
A: Think of 'jokes', but scramble the letters to arrange it
for
Joe the Joe-kster's first name... hence 'Joe' - ks (joe-ks.com)
Have you ever gone to other humour sites to end up with a garbled
mess of ads surrounding a few jokes... followed by unwanted
popup windows? The joe-ks.com site was designed for CONTENT
and NOT for annoying popup ads...
We pride ourselves on your privacy. It's taken 14 years
to arrive at a place where the Joe-kster is confident that
joe-ks.com provides you with the largest selection
of groaner joe-ks & humour on the internet - to allow you to find
whatever you're looking for (and more), unobtrusively and quickly!
Click
here to find out more about the Joe-kster...
Q: How do I change my email address in your joe-ks.com Subscriber list?
A: See details @
Changing your email address
Q: “I'm a subscriber to your email subscription service and really enjoy
your joe-ks, but I find it a lot of work to 'cut and paste' all of the website
links
in your subscriber email. What can I do? (I use aol)”
A: When we first sent out our email to our email
subscribers, we sent out complete text (for text joe-ks) and all the images &
video clips. We received a lot of feedback
that our readers did NOT want large files sent to them - that it took up too
much space
on their email accounts. So we revised our email subscription format to send out
only
links (or URL addresses) for each of the website pages. That has worked out
quite well,
and each email is usually < 10k in size. Note that ALL of the URL addresses in
our subscriber email should show up IN YOUR EMAIL as 'active links' - links that
all
you have to do is to click on them and you will be automatically taken to the
page you want...
If the subscriber email you receive DOES NOT contain 'active links', let us know
about it
and we'll try to help you out - also see our
'Active Link URL' section where other users
can tell you how they found a work-around for this...
Q:
“When I click on a link, I get a small popup
window, and all
I can see are more links... Help!!! I can't get to any of your joe-ks!!!”
A: We suggest the following:
1. Enlarge the “small popup window” to its full size;
2. Use the scroll bar (right side of screen on Windows computers) to scroll down
to the joe-ks which are on the BOTTOM of the screen
(that's because I've added site links at the top of each text joe-k); and
3. The problem is related to the screen size you're using: this site works
best
at a screen size of 1024 X 768 or 1152 X 860 pixels
(... it doesn't look near as good at screen
resolutions of 640 X 480 or 800 X 768)...
ask a computer
“geek”
to help you fix your screen size!
Q:
“On
your
license plate section, my plate doesn't line up properly - why?”
A:
Have a look at the very bottom of the license plate section screen:
if it's not horizontally aligned on the last row, your screen resolution is too
low.
The problem is related to the screen size you're using: this site works
best
at a screen size of 1024 X 768 or 1152 X 860 pixels
(... it doesn't look near as good at screen
resolutions of 640 X 480 or 800 X 768 -
AND the license plate section is misaligned @ lower screen resolutions)...
ask a computer
“geek” to
help you fix your screen size!
Printing Page Alignment:
Set your page setting left & right borders to 0.3"...
Q: “Where do you get all those groaners?”
A: We get them through site users from all over the world,
receiving
hundreds of e-mail messages per day - with approximately 80% of the received joe-ks
already being on the site; 15% of them unusable (refer to what makes them
“usable” below); and 5% that are joe-kster material!
For a user who submits several real groaners that are placed on the site,
I add their name to my
“Honourable
Mention” page!
(note the
“u” in Honourable, eh!)
Q:
“What makes a joe-k
usable for your site?”
A: The Joe-kster “usually”
follows the “Wifey
Acceptable” re
accepting joe-ks for the site -
have a look at the “Wifey Rule”
(from a March 14, 2001 'Delta Optimist' article, Tsawwassen, B.C.)!
Q:
“Great search engine you've added! Why can't I find some of your
newest
joe-ks with the search engine?”
A: The search engine was added to the site in June 2003 -
thanks to
the following: (1) “Google Hacks” (Calishain & Dornfest);
(2) “JavaScript Goodies” (Burns & Growney); & (3) Google's
incredible technology (... and a “little bit” of experimenting
by the Joe-kster)!
FYI that this search engine is solely based on information gathered
by Google through its own web robots, spiders, crawlers & other sources
of creeping information gathering... As such, continued web robot
searching (by Google) is done on a random basis, sometimes a month
between search updates...
B: January 2005 - we've just updated joe-ks.com with
Google's new
& superb web & site-specific search engine - enjoy!
No more restrictions about how to control your search parameters -
just “Google-ize”
it!
Q:
“Can you send your jokes to my e-mail address?”
A: Joe-ks.com started a mailing list option in
January 2004.
ALL information
obtained from users will be kept
strictly confidential, and all
e-mail joe-ks sent out will:
(1) have NO internal advertising
within the e-mail message;
(2) contain ONLY LINKS
(i.e. there will be NO file attachments),
so the file size will be MINIMAL;
(3) distribution will be kept to a maximum of 2 times/week to ensure
that we don't overload any of our users who already have full
e-mail boxes;
(4) there will be NO SPAM: this will be strictly
monitored by the
Joe-kster himself to ensure our site's
integrity; and
(5) you can be assured that your e-mail address
will remain confidential and
will NOT be given to anyone else or
any other business or organization.
Click on this link to
Subscribe to the joe-ks.com e-mail list...
Q: “I'm on your e-mail list, but I don't have
time to read my e-mail - how can I unsubscribe?”
A: Click on this link to
Unsubscribe
from the joe-ks.com e-mail list...
Q:
“What's happened to all of the movie clips?”
A: Our internet service
provider says our bandwidth has reached
sky-high proportions which is great news for us (we've been working for 10 years
to reach 2 million hits/month!), but along with that comes a staggering
increase in our site bandwidth costs. We DO have video clip files within
sections,
but not a single-page listing for them!
Q: “How can I tell which are the newest joe-ks?”
A: Several users have requested a quick way to know
which joe-ks are the most recent...
As of January, 2007 we started placing a
image beside 'New' joe-ks...
FYI - at the start of each calendar year, all previous
images will be deleted:
So
when you see
images, those joe-ks
were put on joe-ks.com during the current year...
Therefore, on January 1st of each year you'll see very few
images
as we 'reset' the 'Newness' of the site...
If you want to know which are the most POPULAR, have a look
at the Home page where a user “Top Ranking” shows the most
popular image and video clip files...
Q:
“What's with the 'Get Stuffed' program?”
A:
Click here for details of the new 'Get Stuffed'
awards program...
Q: “2 Pens Award for outstanding customer
service?”
A:
Click here for details of our '2 Pens'
awards program...
Q: “How can I send an image (picture) to joe-ks.com?”
A:
If you would like to send us an image, please make sure that
you are the copyright owner of the image.
If you suspect that the image is not in public domain, or
it shows any form of ownership (i.e. trademark, website URL) - DON'T send it to us.
We do not knowingly post other person's/company's
pictures on our site. If you come across a picture
on our site that you think violates someone else's
copyright ownership, please advise us and we will
immediately correct the situation by either removing
that picture, or give rightful copyright notice on our
Credits #1 and
Credits #2 pages.
Get e-mail directions @
Sending a picture to joe-ks.com
Q: “How can I send a question to joe-ks.com
or give you feedback?”
A: Get e-mail directions @
Feedback
Q: “How can I send (or forward) one of your
funnies to someone?”
A: Join our free e-mail list @
Subscribe
B: Once we've sent out the e-mail file of the newest groaners 2U,
send/forward that e-mail on to anyone you'd like... this is the internet,
and we don't consider it illegal for you to send our groaners
to anyone who especially needs a little laughter in their life!
Q: “Where do you get the neat top-of-page
graphics from?”
A: We've added a graphics guru to our site staff,
and we'll give
him all the credit for the graphics you can see on the top of the
following sections:
Aging (crazy wheelchair!)
Animal (Moose taking out
characters before taking itself out on joe-ks!)
Art (an appropriate quill
pen...)
Bar (bottle filling Bar
characters will blue liquid... some drink!)
Canada (slap-happy beaver
using its tail to take out Canada!)
Medical (watch out for the
wild guy operating the syringe!)
Puzzle (Scrabble layout)
FAQ (See top of page
above...)
and more to come...
Special credit as well goes to
Animation Factory!
Q: “I'm interested in advertising on
joe-ks.com - what are your rates?”
A: Contact the
joe @ joe-ks.com for a quote.
Our present main source of revenue comes from users like yourself
clicking on the Google ads seen at the bottom of most joe-ks.com pages -
please have a look at those Google-recommended sites, and support
our own site as well!
We also encourage you to look at our “Affiliates
Program”
Q: “Are your joe-ks in the public
domain?”
A: © joe-ks.com 1995-2012
Most text joe-ks are assumed to be in the public domain. Unless otherwise noted, graphics and
artwork are copyright joe-ks.com and are
not to be reproduced without permission.
Q: “Can I use one of your joe-ks for my
newspaper article?”
A: Without exception, we do not authorize use of
any of our material for 'for-profit'
publication, through newspapers or any other form of media.
Unless otherwise noted, graphics and
artwork are
copyright joe-ks.com and are
not to be reproduced without permission.
We do not give out any personal contact information
(from those who have sent us material for our site), nor do we forward
email requests to them - we don't have enough support staff to respond to
the many such requests that we receive.
Q:
“What
about Copyright issues related to image files?”
If you believe that your copyrightable work is being displayed on this site and
is violating
copyright regulations - please advise us immediately and we will remove it.
November 2004: A disgruntled anonymous reader suggests that joe-ks.com is using
pirated
images
from other sites. Please be
advised that we DO NOT knowingly use
anyone else's
copyrighted material.
If you can prove to us that you know of an image which is
copyright -
AND that that image was copyright
BEFORE it was sent to joe-ks.com, we'll gladly
either
(A) give notice to the originator(s) of same on our “Honourable Mention” page &
accredited correctly per your request, or
(B) we'll remove it from our site (provided you send us entire copyright
details/links).
We're doing our best to track down the
originators of
every one of our images -
let us know if you can help. We'd love to hear from
non-anonymous readers
who enjoy Humour/Humor and not Whine/Sour Grapes...
As to that same anonymous reader who points out that we don't know how to spell
“Honourable”
- he/she's right! Neither do we know how to spell
“Dubm”
- or
“Joe-ks”,
but that doesn't stop the
“humour” or our reader's enjoyment of same around
here...
Lighten up - we're a joe-ks site!
Q:
“Love
the new 'GR8
Site Links' page, but I've noticed a few dead links...”
We receive many references to other sites' links, and for those which we
consider as
'GR8 links', we add them to our 'GR8
Site Links' section. Why don't we add them to our own
site sections? Because we've found that - for especially the very popular links
- its own
popularity is sometimes its own downfall, leading to either deletion of their
link, or
re-routing to another URL.
PLEASE NOTE: We have NO control over these external links!
If you notice a 'Dead Link', please let us know by sending an email to us -
details @
Dead Links Submission
and we'll either delete it or try to find another equivalent URL for it.
Q:
“I've found more up-to-date
information for one of your articles / groaners.
I'd like to send the correct info to you so that you can have it corrected...”
A: We've added a “Corrections”
section at the bottom of the
“Honourable Mention”
page. Send us your feedback & we'll correct the article & recognize you
online for
your assistance!
Q:
“Some
of your joe-ks aren't funny - why?”

A: Re:
Bear-ly Surviving A Poletop Electrocution
&
Truck Stuck
Several of the movie clips in the
“Safety”
and
“Bizarre”
sections would also
classify as not being 'funny'. We've put them there mainly as a result of
requests from several safety & training instructors who work directly
with safety-related work. These type of clips are NOT meant to offend
anyone, but to let people know of extreme hazards (in the 'Poletop
Electrocution' re
electrical hazards; and in the 'Truck Stuck' re motorcycle safety).
We're sorry if any of these clips offend anyone!
The fellow who sent us
the Bear-ly Surviving clip works in
B.C. Hydro's Fire and Safety
department, and mentioned that it would be great for our site...
As well, a few of our groaners seem - to some people - as
“too serious” and
“not funny” (i.e.
Treasure Every Moment) ... once in a while we like
to pass on 'special' stuff to our valued browsers!
Q:
“What
is your Privacy Policy?
What's with the Google
ads on your pages?”
A: Confucious says, “Man cannot live on expenditure
alone...”
Joe-ks.com has
“teamed up” with Google.com to (1) obtain an excellent
site-specific search engine; and (2) provide links to recommended Google
advertisers. By clicking on the Google links you're (A) supporting the advertisers;
(B) you are NOT obligated to buy anything;
and
(C) you're helping to supply funding
for continued operation of the joe-ks.com site...
March 2009 - Google launches 'interest-based advertising'
Interest-based advertising allows advertisers to show ads based on a user's
previous
interactions with them (such as visits to an advertiser website) and also to reach
users
based on their interests (e.g.
“sports enthusiast”). To develop interest
categories,
Google will recognize the types of web pages users visit throughout the Google
content
network. As an example, if they visit a number of sports pages, Google will add
them
to the
“sports enthusiast” interest category.
Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site.
Google's use of the
DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on their
visit to our site and and other sites on the Internet.
Note that the Mailing List e-mail distribution of joe-ks will NOT
contain
any advertising.
We do NOT use pop-up ads on any of our pages.
If any of you have any better ideas of how to raise revenue for the site,
while keeping your information confidential,
please
Send them to us!
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