Ethnic Jokes

Evelyn and some of the people at the nursing home showed me that all ethnic jokes are insulting and even though the Norwegians "can take a joke" it is only that they are too polite to insult back. Jokes are not really the best kind of humor anyway. Damn few haven't been around the block a thousand times. Some people can tell a good joke but most cannot. My brother Delbert and my friend Dave can tell jokes well. I cannot so why make polite people bored - don't think the residents will waste their precious time being polite to me.

Here's a joke:

A site foreman had ten very lazy men working for him, so one day he decided to trick them into doing some work for a change. "I've got a really easy job today for the laziest one among you," the foreman announced. "Will the laziest man please put his hand up."

Nine hands went up.

"Why didn't you put your hand up?" the foreman asked the tenth man. "Too much trouble," came the reply.