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Today’s Blog Post
Too True – Brilliant in Fact!
(Thanks Brenda and Winston for this one)
Curtis & Leroy saw an ad in the Local Newspaper and bought a mule for $100.
The farmer agreed to deliver the mule the next day.
The following morning the farmer drove up, and said: "Sorry, fellers, I have some bad news for you, the mule died last night..."
Curtis & Leroy replied; "Well then, just give us our money back.."
The farmer said; "Can't do that...I went and spent it already."
They said; "Okay then, just bring us the dead mule."
The farmer asked; "What in the world ya'll gonna do with a dead mule?"
Curtis said; "We gonn'a raffle him off."
The farmer said; "You can't raffle off a dead mule!"
Leroy said; "We shore can! Heck, we don't hafta tell nobody he's dead!"
A couple of weeks later, the farmer ran into Curtis & Leroy at the Co-Op grocery store and asked:
"Say...what'd you fellers ever do with that dead mule?"
Curtis, said; "We raffled him off like we said we wuz gonn'a do."
Leroy added; "Shucks, we sold 500 tickets fer two dollars a piece and made a profit of $898."
The farmer said; "My Lord, didn't anyone complain...?"
Curtis said; "Well, the feller who won was really upset. So we gave him his two dollars back."
Curtis and Leroy have been hired by the Government to help bring in the new HST – the Harmonized Sales Tax. We are all winners now!
~ Murray Lincoln ~
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The Myth of Money
It's a slow day in a little East Texas town. The sun is beating down, and the streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit.............
On this particular day a rich tourist from back east is driving through town. He stops at the motel and lays a $100 bill on the desk saying he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one to spend the night.
As soon as the man walks upstairs, the owner grabs the bill and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher.... See More
The butcher takes the $100 and runs down the street to retire his debt to the pig farmer.
The pig farmer takes the $100 and heads off to pay his bill at the supplier of feed and fuel.
The guy at the Farmer's Co-op takes the $100 and runs to pay his debt to the local prostitute, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer her "services" on credit.
The hooker rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill with the hotel owner.
The hotel proprietor then places the $100 back on the counter so the rich traveler will not suspect anything.
At that moment the traveler comes down the stairs, picks up the $100 bill, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, pockets the money, and leaves town..
No one produced anything. No one earned anything.
However, the whole town is now out of debt and now looks to the future with great optimism.
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