Port Jefferson Station Man’s Joke Makes Readers’ Digest

A national audience will get the chance to read how funny locals can be.

Herman van Vliet from Port Jefferson Station had one of his jokes selected for the humor section of Readers’ Digest. The joke was one of only a limited number selected for publication from more than 50,000 submissions the magazine gets annually, according to a representative of the magazine.

His joke is available here courtesy of Readers’ Digest:

My wife is not known for her culinary skills. Recently, she was cooking dinner when the smoke detector went off, prompting my three-year-old to announce, “Dinner’s ready!”

The joke got a special treatment on the page, featured above the rest in a starburst.

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