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FIFTH ANNUAL JOKE SHOW
Joke Submissions
Lena
and Lettie Jokes
Lena and Lettie are taking their postprandial stroll past the
shops in their small town. Barber Bob has closed shop for the
day and is out back in the alley, standing by his incinerator,
burning the trash, floor sweepings and hair from the haircuts
he had given that day. As the incinerator burns, the early evening
breeze wafts some of the smoke over the building and to the sidewalk
in front where Lena and Lettie happen to be walking at the moment.
The two elderly ladies smell the smoke as they walk along. Lettie
turns to Lena and asks, "Do you smell something burning? It smells
like hair."
They walk along a bit further, Lena's brow furrows and she asks
her old freind, "Do you think we're walking too fast?"
Mark Kraby, Mauston, WI
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