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lonely and depressed man was walking along the beach when an angel appeared.
The man was quite taken back, not by her beautiful looks, but by the sheer
fact that a young woman had actually stopped to ask him about his day. ‘I
am an angel and to cheer you up and give you faith in your future, I am willing to cut you a lucky break, and give you one chance at anything you want,’ the angel said. The man stopped for a second and looked out towards the ocean. ‘I have always wanted to go to America.’ ‘No problem sir, here you are – two tickets first class on Qantas with all accommodation paid for and a personal driver when you get to the United States.’ ‘No, no, no…I can’t do that – I hate flying.’ ‘Well then sir, here you are, the grand suite on the Queen Elizabeth II – no expense spared.’ Shaking his head again the man replied, ‘That would be nice, but you see, I am scared of boats. Can you build me a bridge all the way and I’ll just drive my car?’ The angel was taken back. ‘Now I know I have some supernatural powers, but what you propose is an engineering feat that is just too beyond anyone, it just can’t happen, it’s impossible! Is there anything else I can get you?’ ‘Well…I would like to have the power to understand woman.’ The angel turned around put her hands on her hips and looked out at the ocean again. ‘Oh crikey…will that be one lane or two?’ ____________________ Several men are in the locker room of a gym when a cell phone on the
bench rings. One of the men takes the phone, engages the hands free speaker
function and begins to talk. The other sticky beaks in the locker room
stop what they are doing to listen. A man is at home watching the football when his wife interrupts: ‘Honey, could you fix the hall light? It’s been flickering for weeks now,’ she asks. He looks at her and says angrily: ‘Fix the light? Now? Does it look like I have Energex printed on my forehead? I don’t think so!’ ‘Well then,’ she asks, ‘could you fix the fridge door? It won’t close properly.’ ‘Fix the fridge door? Does it look like I have Westinghouse written on my forehead? I don’t think so?’ ‘Fine,’ she says, ‘but could you at least fix the steps to the front door?’ ‘They’re about to break up.’ ‘Does it look as though I have Bunnings written on my forehead? I don’t think so. I’ve had enough of this, I’m going to the pub!’ So, he goes to the pub and drinks until closing time. When he arrives home he notices the steps are fixed and the light has stopped flickering. He goes to the fridge to get another beer and notices that the fridge door is also fixed. ‘Honey, how did all these get fixed?’ he asks. ‘Well,’ she said, ‘when you left, I sat outside and cried, and a nice young man asked me what was wrong, so I told him. He offered to do all the repairs and all I had to do was either bake him a cake or make love to him.’ ‘So, what kind of cake did you bake him?’ ‘HELLO!!!!… Do you see Sara Lee written on my forehead? I don’t think so.’ A Marine stationed in Afghanistan recently received a ‘Dear John’
letter from his girlfriend back home. It read as follows: A few months ago, there was an opening with the CIA for an assassin.
These highly classified positions are hard to fill, and there’s
a lot of testing and background checks involved before you can even be
considered for the position. After sending some applicants through the
background checks, training and testing, they narrowed the possible choices
down to two men and a woman – but only one position was available.
The day came for the final test to see which person would get the extremely
secretive job. The CIA men administering the test took one of the men
to a large metal door and handed him a gun. ‘We must know that you
will follow your instructions no matter what the circumstances,’
they explained. ‘Inside this room, you will find your wife sitting
in a chair. Take this gun and kill her.’ Shocked, the man said,
‘you can’t be serious! I could never shoot my own wife!’
‘Well,’ says the CIA official, ‘you’re definitely
not the right man for this job.’ So they bring the second man to
the same door and hand him a gun, with the same instructions. The second
man looked a bit shocked, but nonetheless took the gun and went in the
room. All was quiet for about five minutes, then the door opened. The
man came out of the room with tears in his eyes. ‘I tried to shoot
her, I just couldn’t pull the trigger and shoot my wife. I guess
I’m not the right man for the job.’ ‘No,’ the
CIA man replied, ‘You don’t have what it takes. Take your
wife and go home.’ Now they’re down to the woman applicant.
Again they lead her to the same door to the same room and handed her the
same gun. ‘This is your final test. Inside you will find your husband
sitting in a chair. Take this gun and kill him.’ The woman took
the gun and opened the door. Once the door closed, the CIA heard the gun
start firing – one shot after another for 13 shots. Then all hell
broke loose in the room. They heard screaming, crashing, banging on the
walls. This went on for several minutes, then all went quiet. The door
opened slowly, and there stood the last assassin candidate. She wiped
the sweat from her brow and said, ‘You guys didn’t tell me
the gun was loaded with blanks! I had to beat him to death with the chair!’ A married couple is driving along the highway doing a steady forty miles
per hour. The wife is behind the wheel. Her husband suddenly looks across
at her and speaks in a clear voice. ‘Darling,’ he says. ‘I
know we’ve been married for twenty years, but I want a divorce.’
The wife says nothing, keeps looking at the road ahead but slowly increases
her speed to 45 mph. The husband speaks again. ‘I don’t want
you to try and talk me out of it,’ he says, ‘because I have
been having an affair with your best friend, and she’s a far better
lover than you are.’ Again the wife stays quiet, but grips the steering
wheel more tightly and slowly increases the speed to 55. He pushes his
luck. ‘I want the house,’ he says insistently. Up to 60. ‘I
want the car, too’ he continues. 65mph. ‘And,’ he says,
‘I’ll have the bank accounts, all the credit cards and the
boat.’ The car slowly starts veering towards a massive concrete
bridge. This makes him a wee bit nervous, so he asks her: ‘Isn’t
there anything you want?’ The wife at last replies – in a
quiet controlled voice. ‘No, I’ve got everything I need.’
she says. ‘Oh, really?’ he inquires, ‘so what have you
got?’ Just before they slam into the wall at 75 mph, the wife turns
to him and smiles. ‘The airbag.’
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