Any good jokes ... ?

[colly]

It is the month of June, on the shores of the Black Sea. It is raining, and the little town looks totally deserted. It is tough times, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit. Suddenly, a rich tourist comes to town. He enters the only hotel, lays a 100 Euro note on the reception counter, and goes to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one.
The hotel proprietor takes the 100 Euro note and runs to pay his debt to the butcher.

The Butcher takes the 100 Euro note, and runs to pay his debt to the pig grower.

The pig grower takes the 100 Euro note, and runs to pay his debt to the supplier of his feed and fuel.

The supplier of feed and fuel takes the 100 Euro note and runs to pay his debt to the town prostitute that in these hard times, gave her services on credit.

The prostitute runs to the hotel, and pays off her debt with the 100 Euro note to the hotel proprietor to pay for the rooms that she rented when she brought her clients there.

The hotel proprietor then lays the 100 Euro note back on the counter so that the rich tourist will not suspect anything.

At that moment, the rich tourist comes down after inspecting the rooms, and takes his 100 Euro note, after saying that he did not like any of the rooms, and leaves town.

No one earned anything.

However, the whole town is now without debt, and looks to the future with a lot of optimism. And that is how a capitalist economy works.

 

[Kempstonian]

As it happens.......no!

One of the founders had the surname Robertson - but Trebor came from a building they moved their head office to which was already called Trebor House. Fascinating isn't it?

Well Trebor is certainly a better name than Nostrebor!

 

[srw]

And that is how a capitalist economy works.

In a capitalist economy, each debt would have attracted interest, so the original 100 would have shrunk to 80 and there would still be debt outstanding.

Not a joke, but then it's responding to a bit of dodgy propaganda, not a joke.

 

[DaveReading]

In a capitalist economy, each debt would have attracted interest, so the original 100 would have shrunk to 80 and there would still be debt outstanding.

Well if we're going to ruin what was a reasonably funny joke by dissecting it, it contains a much more fundamental flaw than that ...

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Well if we're going to ruin what was a reasonably funny joke by dissecting it, it contains a much more fundamental flaw than that ...

Is it the lack of mention of the profits made by the bureau de change?

 

[Dave7]

Is it the lack of mention of the profits made by the bureau de change?

I think its the prostitute only earning 100 a day

 

[colly]

In a capitalist economy, each debt would have attracted interest, so the original 100 would have shrunk to 80 and there would still be debt outstanding.

Not a joke, but then it's responding to a bit of dodgy propaganda, not a joke.

Sigh !

 

[colly]

Two hippo's bathing in mud out in the vastness of Africa.

One says to the other 'You know, I keep thinking it's Tuesday'


( Of course one has to suspend disbelief because we we all know hippos don't speak, not English anyway, and I very much doubt they have any comprehension of days of the week let alone the Gregorian Calendar)

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Two hippo's bathing in mud out in the vastness of Africa.

One says to the other 'You know, I keep thinking it's Tuesday'


( Of course one has to suspend disbelief because we we all know hippos don't speak, not English anyway, and I very much doubt they have any comprehension of days of the week let alone the Gregorian Calendar)

The debate's really dragged on, but Ian gets my vote on that one every time.

 

[Cavalol]

I keep falling through open manholes.

My doctor says I have repetitive drain injury.

 

[Cavalol]

I've just seen a young lady with miniature stalls and stands glued to her. If you ask me, she's making an exhibition of herself.

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

 

[wheresthetorch]

Two hippo's bathing in mud out in the vastness of Africa.

One says to the other 'You know, I keep thinking it's Tuesday'


( Of course one has to suspend disbelief because we we all know hippos don't speak, not English anyway, and I very much doubt they have any comprehension of days of the week let alone the Gregorian Calendar)

Punch, 1930s:

 

[Freds Dad]

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Don't be so sure.

 

[Lullabelle]