Giving New Life to Old Yuks
A couple of New Jersey hunters are out in the woods when one of them falls to the ground. He doesn't seem to be breathing, and his eyes have rolled back in his head. The other guy whips out his mobile phone and calls emergency services. He gasps to the operator, “I think my friend’s dead! What do I do?”
The operator, in a soothing voice, says, “Just take it easy. I can help. First, let’s make sure he’s dead.”
There is a silence, and then a shot is heard. The guy comes back on the line: “OK, now what?”
An Alsatian went to a telegram office and wrote, “Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof.”
The clerk examined the paper and told the dog, “There are only nine words here. You could send another ‘Woof’ for the same price.”
“But,” the dog replied, “that would make no sense at all.”
So this British psychiatrist goes online and asks, “What’s the funniest joke of all time?” No, this isn’t a gag. It really happened, in 2002. Almost two million people from more than 70 countries voted on more than 40,000 jokes; participants claimed they laughed loudest at the gags above.