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A tourist driving through the hills of Iowa was
admiring the cattle. He spotted one bull so magnificent he decided to stop and
take its picture. He climbed over the fence, and as he approached the bull he
saw a farmer watching him. “Is this bull safe?” he called out as he
raised his camera. Just as the farmer nodded yes, the bull charged, and the man barely made it to the fence with his life. “Hey!” the man squeaked, out of breath. “You said that bull was safe!” “He was,” the farmer replied blankly. “You weren’t.” |
“I can get up at nine and be rested or I can get up at six and be President.” —Jimmy Carter
The cost of living is going up, but it still includes a free trip around the sun.
Two men met for lunch at a restaurant, and one ordered the soup du jour, which the waiter brought promptly. “Hey—this isn’t soup du jour,” he said with a frown. “I just had soup du jour at another restaurant two days ago and it had chicken in it.”
At the La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles, where mammoths and other prehistoric animals were trapped and preserved in the tar, there is a museum displaying their giant bones. “Isn’t it amazing,” one tourist was overheard saying, “that such big animals once lived right next to such a busy street?”
The boss noticed a young man expertly
counting out a large wad of the company’s cash.
“That’s
impressive,” the boss said. “Where did you learn to count money so
fast?”
“Yale,” the man answered without stopping.
“Obviously you’ve had a good education,” said the boss.
“What’s your name, son?”
He said, “Yon Yorgeson.”
 “I told him again and again not to drink and derive.” |
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