Jokes

 

Sham S. Misri

A lawyer and a blonde were sitting at a bar. All that the blonde wanted to do was to sleep, but the lawyer saw the chance to take money.

“Why don’t we play a game?” he suggested, “I ask you a question. If you don’t know the answer then, you pay me five dollars, and vice versa.”

“No I just wanna to go to sleep,” said the blonde.

The lawyer wasn’t giving up that easily. He figured taking money from a blonde would be like taking candy from a baby so he gave her a greater incentive, feeling confident that she wouldn’t prove his intellectual equal. “I’ll tell you what I’ll do,” he persisted. “If you don’t know the answer you will pay me five dollars, but if  I don’t know the answer I will pay you 50 dollars.”

“OK,” the blonde sighed, “anything for a quiet life.”

The lawyer asked the first question: “what is the circumference of the world?”

The blonde didn’t try to think, but just handed over her five dollars. The lawyer pocketed with glee.

Then it was the blonde’s turn. “What,” she asked, “goes up a hill with three legs and comes down with four?”

The lawyer was stumped. He couldn’t believe that the blonde could come up with a question he didn’t know the answer to. While the blonde dozed, he consulted half a dozen encyclopedias, e-mailed his lawyer friends, went on his laptop but still couldn’t find the answer. After an hour he finally had to admit defeat and handed over 50 dollars.

“Right,” he said tetchily, “what is the answer?”

The blonde silently reached into her purse, handed him five dollars and went back to sleep.