BUSINESSMAN: “I hate gin and vermouth.”
SECRETARY: “Then why do you have twelve martinis for lunch every day?”
BUSINESSMAN: “I can’t help myself. I love olives.”
BUSINESSMAN: “I hate gin and vermouth.”
SECRETARY: “Then why do you have twelve martinis for lunch every day?”
BUSINESSMAN: “I can’t help myself. I love olives.”
Contrary to popular belief, youngsters do know the value of a dollar today …two candy bars and a comic book.
With food prices and inflation sky high, I don’t know which is emptier — my wallet or my refrigerator.
These days the only thing harder to keep than a secret is money.
The only people who get rich addressing envelopes are bill collectors.
CONSUMER: “The latest thing is a store that’s a combination butcher shop and health spa.”
MAN: “You can’t be serious.”
CONSUMER: “But I am. If you go into the store, you have to join the spa before the butcher will trim the fat off your meat.”
American money is really inflated. Yesterday I opened my wallet and watched helplessly as a twenty-dollar bill floated off into the sky.
These days people care more about the environment’s health than they do about their own. In most states cars aren’t allowed to smoke, but people are.
OVERHEARD: “Last Christmas I gave her something worth 25 dollars — a fifty-dollar bill.”
Last week I finally stopped worrying if a computer would replace me on the job. I was fired.
There is one sure-fire way to save money these days — borrow it and then forget who loaned it to you.
Now I finally know what’s meant by the energy squeeze. Last week I joined a car pool and six of us drove to work in a Volkswagen.
I wish they could invent a computer that would do my job for me. I’m tired of standing in that unemployment line.
I.R.S. AGENT: “Mr. Smith, you’ve been claiming your mother as a tax exemption for five years, and she’s been deceased for five years. What is your explanation?”
SMITH: “Well, you see, sir, my mother is still very much alive in my heart.”
With inflation, wars and high prices, it’s not easy being a young American, because you’re not old enough to remember the good old days.