Well, with the economy going down the shit can, loss of life continuing in a military engagement that maybe even more shameful than Vietnam, an election that is coming up that will give us an opportunity to show how mean spirited we can be… perhaps a little joke will help numb the pain. The joke was passed to me by Monsieur Cadan, The Elder.
I laughed so hard that I had to change my boxer shorts… twice.
If you’ve heard it before, or seen it in the email circuit… laugh anyway, because it is funny! And if you don’t laugh you can join the great Albert Einstein who said on hearing a joke, and I quote, “I don’t understand it.”
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At dawn the telephone rang, “Hello, Senor Rod? This is Ernesto, the caretaker at your country house.”
“Ah yes, Ernesto. What can I do for you? Is there a problem?”
“Um, I am just calling to advise you, Senor Rod, that your parrot, he is dead”
“My parrot? Dead? The one that won the International Parrot Competition? The Parrot I paid $750,00 for?”
“Si, Senor, that’s the one.”
“Damn it! What did he die from?”
“From eating the rotten meat, Senor Rod.”
“Rotten meat? Who the hell fed him rotten meat?”
“Nobody, Senor. He ate the meat of the dead horse.”
“Dead horse? What dead horse?”
“Your thoroughbred, Senor Rod.”
“My prize thoroughbred is dead? You must be kidding! How the fuck did he die?”
“Si, Senor Rod, he died from all that work pulling the water cart.”
“Are you insane?? What water cart?”
“The one we had to hook him up to put out the fire, Senor.”
“Good Lord!! What fire?!”
“The one at your house, Senor! A candle fell and the curtains caught on fire.”
“What?!! Are you saying that my mansion is destroyed because of a Goddamn candle? Is that what you are telling me?”
“Si, Senor Rod.”
“But there’s electricity at the house!! What the hell was the candle for?”
“For the funeral, Senor Rod.”
“Holy shit, WHAT BLOODY FUNERAL??!!”
“Your wife’s, Senor Rod, she showed up very late one night and I thought she was a thief, so I hit her on the head with your new Taylor Made SuperQuad 460 golf club.”
{LONG SILENCE}
“Ernesto, if you broke that driver, you’re in deep shit