Subject: Mental Deficiency
From: Unicorn (unicorn@indenial.com)
Date: Sun Jul 08 2001 - 07:44:11 EDT
"Mental Deficiency"
A noted psychiatrist was a guest at a National
Organization for Women gathering, and his hostess
naturally broached the subject in which the doctor
was most at ease. "Would you mind telling me, Doctor,"
she asked, "how you detect a mental deficiency in
somebody who appears completely normal?"
"Nothing is easier," he replied. "You ask him a simple
question which everyone should answer with no trouble.
If he hesitates, that puts you on the track."
"What sort of question?"
"Well, you might ask him, 'Captain Cook made three
trips around the world and died during one of them.
Which one?'
The woman thought a moment, then said with a nervous
laugh, "You wouldn't happen to have another example,
would you? I must confess I don't know much about history."
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"Useless"
The family had finally gotten their first dishwasher.
The father liked to inspect every new thing that
came into the house, so he stayed in the kitchen
and watched the display count down all forty-four
minutes of the dish-washing cycle.
Suddenly he called out for his wife, shouting, "It's
useless, the dishwasher is useless!"
The wife was amazed that the newest appliance
could be broken after only one use, but he insisted
that because they had a water softener, the
dishwasher was useless.
She decided to look for herself, and there it was,
on the inside door, next to the detergent dispenser:
"USE LESS WITH SOFT WATER"
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