Joke of the Day
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- Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 18:22:04 -0700
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----- Original Message -----
From: Ken Schiff <ken@guiguy.com>
To: Marbeth Schiff <marbeth@guiguy.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 2:26 PM
Subject: Fw: government work
> >
> >
> > A fellow stopped at a rural gas station and, after filling his tank, he
> > paid the bill and bought a soft drink. He stood by his car to drink his
> > cola, and he watched a couple of men working along the roadside.
> >
> > One man would dig a hole two or three feet deep and then move on. The
> > other man came along behind and filled in the hole. While one was
digging
> > a new hole, the other was 25 feet behind filling in the old. The men
> worked
> > right past the fellow with the soft drink and went on down the road.
> >
> > "I can't stand this," said the man, tossing the can into a trash
> > container and headed down the road toward the men. "Hold it, hold it,"
he
> > said to the men. "Can you tell me what's going on here with this
digging?"
> >
> > "Well, we work for the government," one of the men said.
> >
> > "But one of you is digging a hole and the other fills it up. You're not
> > accomplishing anything. Aren't you wasting the taxpayers' money?"
> >
> > "You don't understand, mister," one of the men said, leaning on his
> > shovel and wiping his brow. "Normally there's three of us-me, Willie and
> LeRoy.
> >
> > I dig the hole, Willie sticks in the tree, and Leroy here puts the dirt
> back.
> > "Now just because Willie's sick, that don't mean that LeRoy and me can't
> work.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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