Subject: Mexico Oh, Mexico
From: Unicorn (unicorn@indenial.com)
Date: Sat May 05 2001 - 15:11:15 EDT
"Juan The Smuggler"
Juan comes up to the Mexican border on his
bicycle. He's got two large bags over his shoulders.
The guard stops him and says, "What's in the bags?"
"Sand," answered Juan.
The guard says, "We'll just see about that ~ get
off the bike." The guard takes the bags and rips
them apart; he empties them out and finds nothing
in them but sand. He detains Juan overnight and
has the sand analyzed, only to discover that there
is nothing but pure sand in the bags.
The guard releases Juan, puts the sand into new
bags, hefts them onto the man's shoulders, and
lets him cross the border.
A week later, the same thing happens. The guard
asks, "What have you got?"
"Sand," says Juan.
The guard does his thorough examination and discovers
that the bags contain nothing but sand. He gives the
sand back to Juan, and Juan crosses the border on his
bicycle.
This sequence of events if repeated every day for three
years. Finally, Juan doesn't show up one day, and the
guard meets him in a Cantina in Mexico.
"Hey, Buddy," says the guard, "I know you are smuggling
something. It's driving me crazy. It's all I think about.....
I can't sleep. Just between you and me, what are you
smuggling?"
Juan sips his beer and says, "Bicycles."
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"Made in America?"
Joe Smith starts the day early, having set his
alarm clock (made in China), for 600 A.M. While
his coffee pot (made in China), is perking, he puts
his blow dryer (made in Taiwan) to work and shaves
with his electric razor (made in China). He puts on
a dress shirt (made in Taiwan), his designer jeans
(made in Singapore), and a pair of tennis shoes
(made in Korea). After cooking up some breakfast
in his new electric skillet (made in Philippines), he
sits down to figure out on his calculator (made in
Mexico), how much he can spend today.
After setting his watch (made in Switzerland), to the
radio (made in China), he goes out, gets in his car
(made in Germany), goes looking as he has been
for months, for a good paying American job. At the
end of another discouraging and fruitless day, Joe
decides to relax for a while. He puts on a pair of
sandals (made in China), pours himself a glass of
wine (made in France), and turns on his TV (made
in Japan), and ponders again why he can't find a
good paying American job.
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