While we were out at lunch today, JManDoo offered up this great joke. I believe that this joke may be the best humor litmus test of all time:
A woman’s pet duck falls ill, and she brings it in to her local veterinarian.
“Doctor,” the woman exclaims, “my pet duck has fallen ill. Can you take a look at him?”
The doctor immediately takes the duck back to the examination room. A few minutes later the doctor emerges and says,
“Ma’am, your duck is dead.”
The woman is crushed. She doesn’t believe this is possible.
“I brought my duck in and he was only ill. I cannot believe he’s dead! Surely, doctor, there is something you can do!”
The doctor reluctantly lifts a dog up onto the examination table. The dog sniffs around the duck, nuzzles against it a little, licks it a bit. After a minute or two of this, the doctor picks up the dog and puts him back down onto the ground.
“No, ma’am, your duck is dead.”
Still considering this impossible, the woman again pleads with the doctor to do anything he can to save her duck.
The doctor picks up a cat this time - places the cat onto the examination table. The cat nuzzles against the duck a little, licks his head, paws at it a little. The duck doesn’t move.
“Ma’am, I don’t know what else to say. Your duck is dead.”
Finally, the woman relents…”What do I owe you?” she asks the doctor.
The doctor takes out a slip of paper, scribbles on it furiously, hands it over to the woman.
“150 dollars for you to tell me my duck is dead? How can you get away charging so much?”
The doctor responds, “Well, if you hadn’t made me do the lab test and the cat scan…”
JManDoo and I both find this joke incredibly funny. Do you?
