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Laughter, the Best Medicine

The best Medicine

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A farmer has a problem with foxes eating his hens. He asks the smartest person he knows, a physicist, to help him. The physicist spends all day thinking and calculatin­g. Then, finally, he says, “I’ve found a solution! But it will work only for spherical chickens inside a vacuum.” —Factinator.com

Sister Mary donned her habit and got into her vintage auto. About a mile down the road, she ran out of gas. Fortunatel­y, there was a gas station on the next block, so she walked over. But when she got there, it was out of gas cans.

Sister Mary walked back to her car and opened the trunk to look for a container.

All she could find was a bedpan. She walked back to the station and filled the bedpan as best she could. Then she walked back to her auto and began pouring the gas from the bedpan into the tank.

From across the street, two Baptist ministers were watching all of this. One minister

I think that being an astronaut on the way to the moon would be the worst time to find out you’re a werewolf.

—Leonard Chan,

comedian

turned to the other and said, “If that car starts, I’m converting to Catholicis­m.”

—Submitted by John Mendonca

Stockton, California

Only Child Syndrome

✦ I’m the youngest of three. Both my parents are older. —Big_bri_guzzi via Reddit.com

✦ My parents raised me as an only child, which really annoyed my younger brother. —Bestlifeon­line.com

✦ I’m an only child, so I’ve been taking selfies since the ’70s. —twitter@tamerkatta­n

A teacher is droning on and on when he notices that a student sitting all the way at the back of the classroom has fallen asleep during his lecture.

“Hey,” the teacher yells to the girl sitting next to the sleeping student, “wake that kid up!”

“You’re the one who put him to sleep,” she calls back to the teacher with a shrug. “You wake him up!” —learnengli­sh.de

 ??  ?? “If there’s a way in, they’ll find it.”
“If there’s a way in, they’ll find it.”

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