1) A job is a job
An unemployed mechanic comes to a zoo, looking for a job. The zoo's director is very pleased.
"You're a godsend! Just last week, our only gorilla died, and what's a zoo without a gorilla? Nothing worth visiting. We'll give you his pelt, and you'll play the big monkey for the tourists"
"I don't know..." says the unemployed, "sounds like a weird job"
"Just as you want, but we pay well. In return, you'll eat a banana, shake the cage a bit, and that's all the work you have to do" encourages the director.
The unemployed mechanic decided to accept the job; he put on the gorilla's skin and went into the cage. He ate bananas, thumped his chest, shook the cage, roared some. In high spirits, he even began to jump up and down around the cage. Suddenly, there was a loud crack, the floor underneath him broke, and the luckless man found himself in a cage full of lions... Immediately, he lost all desire for joking, ran to the bars of the cage and started yelling:
"People! Help me! The lions will eat me! I'm not a gorilla, I'm a human! Help!!!!"
The largest of the lions sidles up to him and murmurs:
"Shut up, you idiot, or we'll all lose our jobs..."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2) To each their own
A newly engaged young lady comes, for the first time, to the house of her future in-laws. They sit down to dinner and, as the girl reaches for her soup spoon, her fiance's father says:
"In our house, we have a custom; before we start eating, we make the sign of the cross (cross ourselves? -- not sure of the translation)"
The girl lays down her spoon immediately."I'm sorry" she says "we don't have that custom in our house; my mother is a very good cook"
----- Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/
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