A Japanese company and an American company decided to have a canoe race on the Missouri River. Both teams practiced long and hard to reach their peak performance before the race. On the big day the Japanese won by a mile.
Afterward, the American team became very discouraged and morally depressed. The American management decided the [...]

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My inbox overfloweth…
The young girl of the house, by way of punishment for some minor misdemeanor, was compelled to eat her dinner alone at a little table in a corner of the dining room. The rest of the family paid no attention to her presence until they heard her audibly praying over her repast: “I [...]

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Another from the inbox.
After twenty years of shaving himself every morning, a man in a small Southern town decided he had enough. He told his wife that he intended to let the local barber shave him each day. He put on his hat and coat and went to the barbershop, which was owned by the [...]

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This is from the inbox. The answering machine message is not real, but is based on a real situation at the Palisades Charter High School in California. They instituted a policy where students with ten or more unexcused absences per semester would fail the term. In February 2002, 130 students of the 2500 total failed [...]

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From the Inbox
A young boy enters the barber shop and the barber whispers to his customer, “This is the dumbest kid in the world. Watch while I prove it to you.”
The barber puts a dollar bill in one hand and two quarters in the other, then calls the boy over and asks, “Which do you [...]

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