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Two guys have just met at a rooftop bar in New York and both of them are a bit tipsy.
‘You know,’ the first guy says, ‘all these huge buildings create their own wind currents and pressures. If I jumped off the rooftop here, I wouldn’t be killed. I’d just fall part way and then the wind would bring me back up here.’ Continue reading
A mother takes her five-year-old son with her to the bank on a busy lunchtime. They get behind a very generously proportioned, blue-singleted truck driver, who has a pager attached to the top of his stubby shorts to keep him in touch with the depot. As they wait patiently in line, the little boy says loudly to his mother, ‘Gee, he’s fat.’ Continue reading
Jack wakes up with a hangover that would kill a brown dog. After a minute of searing agony, he manages to open his eyes, only to see a couple of aspirins next to a glass of water on the side table and, next to them, a single red rose! He sees all his clothes, freshly pressed, hanging off the chair and the whole room in perfect order. He takes the aspirins, cringes when he sees a huge black eye staring back at him in the bathroom mirror and notices a note on the table from his wife of twenty years: ‘Honey, breakfast is on the stove. I left early to go shopping. Love you!’ Continue reading
Mother Superior
A ninety-eight-year-old mother superior from Ireland is dying and is clearly only hours away from shuffling off this mortal coil. Continue reading
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