One day old man Stumpy and his wife Martha
went to the Illinois State Fair. There is this man selling
plane rides in his single prop show plane for $10 per person.
Stumpy looks to Martha and says, "Martha, I think I really
should try that." Martha replies, "I know you want to Stumpy,
but we have a lot of bills, and you know the money is tight, and
$10 is $10." So Stumpy goes without. Over the next few years
they return every year, and the same thing, Stumpy wants to
ride, but Martha says no money.
Finally, when Stumpy and Martha are both about 70 years old,
Stumpy looks to Martha, and says, "Martha, I'm 70 now, and I
don't know if I'll ever get the chance again, so I just have to
have a ride in that there airplane." Martha replies in the same
old fashion, and Stumpy kind of slumps down. The pilot is
standing near by and overhears the conversation...
The pilot pipes up, "Excuse me folks, I
couldn't help but hear your situation, and I have a deal for
you. I'll take both of you up together, and if you can both
make the entire trip without saying a word, or even making the
slightest sound, I'll give the ride for free. But if either of
you make a sound, its $10 each." Well, Martha and Stumpy look at
each other, and agree to take the ride.
The pilot takes them up, and starts to do
loop de loops, twists, dives, climbs and spins. No sound. The
pilot lands the plane, looks back at Stumpy and says, "Sir, I
have to hand it to ya, you didn't make even the slightest sound
and that was my best stuff." Stumpy looks back at the pilot and
says, "Well, I was gonna say something when Martha fell out, but
$10 is $10!"
For decades, two heroic statues, one male
and one female, faced each other in a city park, until one day
an angel came down from heaven.
"You've been such exemplary statues," he announced to them,
"That I'm going to give you a special gift. I'm going to bring
you both to life for thirty minutes, in which you can do
anything you want." And with a clap of his hands, the angel
brought the statues to life.
The two approached each other a bit shyly, but soon dashed for
the bushes, from which shortly emerged a good deal of giggling,
laughter, and shaking of branches. Fifteen minutes later, the
two statues emerged from the bushes, wide grins on their faces.
"You still have fifteen more minutes," said the angel, winking
at them.
Grinning even more widely the female statue turned to the male
statue and said, "Great! Only this time you hold the pigeon down
and I'll crap on it's head."
An Amish boy and his father were visiting
a mall. They were amazed by almost everything they saw, but
especially by two shiny, silver walls that could move apart and
back together again. The boy asked his father, "What is this,
Father?" The father [never having seen an elevator] responded
"Son, I have never seen anything like this in my life, I don't
know what it is."
While the boy and his father were watching wide-eyed, an old
lady in a wheel chair rolled up to the moving walls and pressed
a button. The walls opened and the lady rolled between them into
a small room. The walls closed and the boy and his father
watched small circles of lights with numbers above the walls
light up. They continued to watch the circles light up in the
reverse direction.
The walls opened up again and a beautiful 24-year-old woman
stepped out. The father said to his son, "Go get your mother."
This man, his wife and their Border
Collie, Maisy were out for a drive in the country one afternoon
in their new convertible, with the top down. The husband and
wife were enjoying the scenery as they drove along. While
unbeknownst to them, Maisy gave birth to seven puppies while
laying on the back seat of the automobile. The couple continued
to drive along, unaware of the new arrivals. Soon the road began
to deteriorate and was beginning to become quite rough.
Suddenly, the car ran over a deep pothole in the road, and one
of Maisy's puppies bounced up and out of the car, landing on the
roadway just in front of a police car that had been following
the man and his wife.
The police officer switched on his lights
and siren, and soon had the couple pulled over to the side of
the road. What are you pulling me over for? Queried the startled
driver. The officer responded, "I pulled you over for creating a
"Road Hazard, for other drivers!" What hazard? Asked the man. "A
puppy bounced out of your car and put myself, and several other
drivers at risk, trying to avoid hitting it." Now your Drivers
License and Proof of Insurance please. Thank you Sir... And the
'Bitches' name, Sir. Hey! How dare you call my wife a bitch!
Sir, I was referring to the dog! Oh... Her name is Maisy. What
do you want her name for, officer? Well Sir, after I write your
ticket for "Endangering Vehicular Traffic", I am going to cite
your dog, Maisy, for Littering!
After being with her all evening, the man
couldn't take another minute with his blind date. Earlier, he
had secretly arranged to have a friend call him to the phone so
he would have an excuse to leave if something like this
happened.
When he returned to the table, he lowered his eyes, put on a
grim expression and said, "I have some bad news. My grandfather
just died."
"Thank heavens," his date replied. "If yours hadn't, mine would
have had to!"
At a jewelry store, a young man bought an
expensive locket as a present for his girlfriend. "Don't you
want her name engraved upon it?" asked the jeweler. The young
man thought for a moment, and then, ever the pragmatic,
steadfastly replied,
"No, just engrave it: To My One And Only Love. That way, if we
break up and she throws it back to me in anger, I can use it
again."
A man and his wife were driving through
country on his way from New York to California. Looking at his
fuel gauge, he decided to stop at the next gasoline station and
fill up. About 15 minutes later, he spots a Mobil station and
pulls over to the high octane pump.
"What can I do for y'all?" asks the attendant. "Fill `er up with
high test," replies the driver. While the attendant is filling
up the tank, he's looking the car up and down. "What kinda car
is this?" he asks. "I never seen one like it before." "Well,"
responds the driver, his chest swelling up with pride, "this, my
boy is a 1999 Cadillac DeVille."
"What all's it got in it?" asks the attendant. "Well," says the
driver, "it has everything. It's loaded with power steering,
power seats, power sun roof, power mirrors, AM/FM radio with a
10 deck CD player in the trunk with 100 watts per channel, 8
speaker stereo, rack and pinion steering, disk brakes all
around, leather interior, digital instrument package, and best
of all, a 8.8 liter V12 engine."
"Wow," says the attendant, "that's really something!" "How much
do I owe you for the gasoline?" asks the driver. "That'll be
$30.17," says the attendant.
The driver pulls out his money clip and peels off a $20 and a
$10. He goes into his other pocket and pulls out a handful of
change. Mixed up with the change are a few golf tees. "What are
those little wooden things?" asks the attendant. "That's what I
put my balls on when I drive," says the driver. "Wow," says the
attendant, "those Cadillac people think of everything!"
Mr. Smith wanted to become a teacher in
the worst way, but the only job he could find was as an
instructor at an all female college teaching sex education. His
wife was a very jealous woman so Mr. Smith decided he would tell
his wife that he would be teaching sailing at this college so
that she would not get angry. He was very happy and for months
all was well. As fate would have it, one day in the grocery
store check out lane, Mrs. Smith overheard a group of girls
standing in line behind her talking about college and their
instructor Mr. Smith. The girls went on and on about how great
this Mr. Smith was at teaching their class. The cashier handed
Mrs. Smith her change and said, "Have a great day Mrs. Smith,
and thank you, again." One of the girls in line heard the
cashier, and asked Mrs. Smith if she was related to the Mr.
Smith that was teaching at the college. Mrs. Smith replied,
"Yes, he is my husband." Well that set off a torrent of
accolades about how knowledgeable Mr. Smith was about the
subject matter he was teaching, about how he got the whole class
to discuss their fears about learning the subject. Well Mrs.
Smith was taken back by what she heard from these girls and
replied, "I don't know how you find him to be so gifted at
teaching you this course. You know he only tried it twice in his
life. The first time he tried it, he got sick, and the second
time, his hat blew off and he just quit."
A pompous self made grocer named Bates
gets his son into an expensive private school. On day One the
whole family is there to see the little blighter begin his first
day at school. The grocer, his family in tow, saunters into the
principal's office and introduces himself thus: "I am Sir
Shortweight Bates. This is my wife, Lady Bates, my daughter Miss
Bates and my son Master Bates." "Oh does he?" asks the bemused
principal, "we will soon get him out of that terrible habit."
A stranger was seated next to Little
Johnny on the plane when the stranger turned to the Little
Johnny and said, "Let's talk. I've heard that flights will go
quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow
passenger."
Little Johnny, who had just opened his book, closed it slowly,
and said to the stranger, "What would you like to discuss?"
"Oh, I don't know," said the stranger. "How about nuclear
power?"
"OK," said Little Johnny. "That could be an interesting topic.
But let me ask you a question first. "A horse, a cow, and a deer
all eat grass. The same stuff. Yet a deer excretes little
pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, and a horse
produces clumps of dried grass. Why do you suppose that is?"
"Jeez," said the stranger. "I have no idea."
"Well, then," said Little Johnny, "How is it that you feel
qualified to discuss nuclear power when you don't know shit?"
A taxi passenger tapped the driver on the
shoulder to ask him a question. The driver screamed, lost
control of the car, nearly hit a bus, went up on the footpath,
and stopped centimetres from a shop window.
For a second everything went quiet in the cab, then the driver
said, "Look mate, don't ever do that again. You scared the
daylights out of me!" The passenger apologized and said, "I
didn't realize that a little tap would scare you so much. "The
driver replied, "Sorry, it's not really your fault. Today is my
first day as a cab driver. I've been driving a funeral van for
the last 25 years." |