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Monday, January 10, 2005

A poker player to hold you over

I realize I haven't contributed anything to this thing lately. So, to tie you over, here is a pretty good joke/story my dad sent me tonight.

Two couples were playing poker one evening. Jim accidentally dropped some cards on the floor. When he bent down under the table >to pick them up, he noticed Bobs wife Sue wasn't wearing any underwear under her dress!
Shocked by this, Jim upon trying to sit back up again, hit his head on the table and emerged red-faced.
Later, Jim went to the kitchen to get some refreshments.
Bob's wife followed and asked, "Did you see anything that you liked under there?" Surprised by her boldness, Jim courageously admitted that, well indeed he did.
She said, " Well, you can have it but it will cost you $500."
After taking a minute or two to assess the financial and moral costs of this offer, Jim confirms that he is interested.
She tells him that since her husband Bob works Friday afternoons and Jim doesn't, Jim should be at her house around 2 p.m. Friday afternoon.
When Friday rolled around, Jim showed up at Bob's house at 2 p.m. sharp and after paying Sue the agreed sum of $500 they went to the bedroom and closed their transaction, as agreed.
Jim quickly dressed and left. As usual, Bob came home from work at 6 p.m. and upon entering the house, asked his wife abruptly.
"Did Jim come by the house this afternoon?" With a lump in her throat Sue answered "Why yes, he did stop by for a few minutes this afternoon."
Her heart nearly skipped a beat when her husband curtly asked, "And did he give you $500?" In terror she assumed that somehow he had found out and after mustering her best poker face, replied, "Well,yes, in fact he did give me $500." Bob, with a satisfied look on his face, surprised his wife by saying, "Good, I was hoping he did. Jim came by the office this morning and borrowed $500 from me. He promised me he'd stop by our house this afternoon on his way home and pay me back."
Now that my friends, is a poker player!

2 Comments:

At 1:20 PM, Blogger Brian said...

Nice. The same basic plot as Chaucer's "Shipman's Tale", by the way, except Chaucer's version takes four-hundred lines of verse to get around to the same punchline and it doesn't go over quite as well down at the pub! Thanks for the laugh. Hope everything's going well ...

 
At 11:37 PM, Blogger Wander Lust said...

I haven't read that. Hopefully I'll run across it someday. I'm sure that's where the author of this joke stole the idea from. I wonder if that would actually work....

 

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