Two business men in Florida were sitting down for a break in their soon to be new store. The store wasn't ready, with only a few shelves set up.One said to the other, "I bet any minute now some senior is going to walk by,put his face to the window, and ask what we're selling."No sooner were the words out of his mouth when, sure enough, a curious seniorwalked to the window, had a peek, and in a soft voice asked, "What are you sellin' here?"One of the men replied sarcastically,"We're selling ass-holes."Without skipping a beat, the old timer said, "Must be doing well... only two left."
is just awesome when a plan comes together.
Outside theBristol Zoo, inEngland, there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 coaches, or buses.
It was manned by a very pleasant attendant with aticket machinecharging cars £1 (about $1.40) and coaches £5 (about $7).
This parking attendant worked there solid for all of 25 years. Then, one day, he just didn't turn up for work.
"Oh well", saidBristol Zoo Management- "we'd better phone up the City Council and get them to send a new parking attendant..."
"Err ... no", said the Council, "that parking lot is your responsibility."
"Err ... no", said Bristol Zoo Management, "the attendant was employed by the City Council, wasn't he?"
"Err ... NO!" insisted the Council.
Sitting in his villa in somewhere in Spain, is a bloke who had been taking the parking lot fees, estimated at £400 (about $560) per day at Bristol Zoo for the last 25 years. Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over £3.6 million ($7 million)!
A SLIP OF THE TONGUE
An old priest got sick of everyone in his parish confessing adultery. During one Sunday's sermon he told them, "If one more person confesses to adultery, I'll quit!"
Since everyone liked him, they decided to use a code word: ‘fallen’. From then on, anyone who had committed adultery said they had ‘fallen’. This satisfied the old priest and the parishioners, and everything was fine for years, until finally the old priest passed away at the ripe old age of 93. Shortly after, the new young priest settled in, he paid a call on the mayor. The priest was quite concerned. ‘You have to do something about the sidewalks in this town, Mayor. You can't believe how many people come into the confessional talking about having fallen!’ The mayor started to laugh, realizing that no one had explained their code word to the new priest. But before the mayor could explain, the priest shook his finger at the mayor and said - ‘I don't know why you're laughing; your wife fell three times last week!’
A KLM Advertising that puzzled
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8 comments:
That first story made me laugh out loud. Thanks.
They are all so funny! Thanks for sharing... have a blessed weekend!
Thanks Guys!
Thank you for sharing the story.
Have a nice weekend!
welcome rough terrain.
ha, thanks for a good laugh! great stories (although i knew the third one from before)
and i have no idea where the trick is with that 'sitting' man
Juliana I think it must be a hologram.
They make them so real today.I didn't see any one trying to touch the man himself.lol
that's just about the only possible explanation i could think of, too
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