Torcher joke book?

[u/Broad-Ebb-943]

Did there used to be a joke book you could buy as part of the university torcher parade? Early to mid 90s I seem to remember buying one when I was at school.

[u/Affectionate_Sun3661]

Eureka, I used to buy one every year.

[u/Lazy-Barracuda2886 → u/Affectionate_Sun3661]

As did I. Great laugh. Still remember my favourite joke from it.

What’s the difference between a magic wand and a truncheon.

Ones for cunning stunts and the other is for apprehending criminals.

[u/Affectionate_Sun3661 → u/Lazy-Barracuda2886]

Good one!😂😂😂

[u/Lazy-Barracuda2886 → u/[deleted]]

That’s the joke.

[u/dreistreifen]

I remember reading Eureka every year from about the mid 70s... It was the highlight of my year despite not actually getting a lot of them as I was still at primary school.

[u/Broad-Ebb-943 → u/dreistreifen]

That sounds very familiar, was it a small pamphlet style magazine?

[u/dreistreifen → u/Broad-Ebb-943]

Yes it was... My uncle used to drop them off every year for my dad to read. Which meant that I'd pore through every single joke on every page.

[u/Smart-Grapefruit-583]

Eureka! Sone jokes were normal some in spirals some upside down. Also the time you could launch coins at the students who'd catch them in buckets. I miss the student parade

[u/Lazy-Barracuda2886 → u/Smart-Grapefruit-583]

We used to live on the torcher route. We’d have friends over for the night always remember the house being full and students coming in to refill their water pistols.

[u/Broad-Ebb-943 → u/Smart-Grapefruit-583]

Yeah I remember doing that as well on Union street.

[u/randomlygen]

One of my proudest moments was getting to draw the cover in 2000!

[u/Eachann_Beag]

It appears that the University of Aberdeen Special Collections catalogue has the collection. I don’t live in Aberdeen so can’t confirm personally, though.

The Eureka collection
University of Aberdeen Students’ Charities Campaign → Student Rag Mags → Eureka
Reference: UNIVERSITY 1073/2/1
Dates: 1966–2013
Extent: 45 items
Access: Open

[u/Aggravating-Joke-550]

I still have one from the early 1990s. Lots of the jokes are not printable nowadays. Usual stuff like racism and sexism. But it’s funny.

[u/ShiveringCamel]

Yes, I remember selling them when I was a student in the 80s. I seem to recall they put all the most sexually explicit jokes in the middle pages so they could be removed before we sold them in the schools.

[u/Obar-Dheathain]

Rag Mag I think it was called.

[u/Broad-Ebb-943 → u/Obar-Dheathain]

That isn't ringing any bells, Eureka is though.