Subject: Military Life Insurance
From: Unicorn (unicorn@indenial.com)
Date: Wed Aug 28 2002 - 06:49:36 EDT
"Military Life Insurance"
Airman Jones was assigned to the induction center,
where he advised new recruits about their government
benefits, especially their GI insurance. It wasn't long
before Captain Smith noticed that Airman Jones was
having a staggeringly high success-rate, selling
insurance to nearly 100% of the recruits he advised.
Rather than ask about this, the Captain stood in the
back of the room and listened to Jones' sales pitch.
Jones explained the basics of the GI Insurance to the
new recruits, and then said: "If you have GI Insurance
and go into battle and are killed, the government has
to pay $200,000 to your beneficiaries. If you don't have
GI insurance, and you go into battle and get killed, the
government only has to pay a maximum of $6000.
Now," he concluded, "which group do you think they
are going to send into battle first?"
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"Tardy Troops"
The General went out to find that none of his G.I.s
were there. One finally ran up, panting heavily.
"Sorry, sir! I can explain, you see I had a date and
it ran a little late. I ran to the bus but missed it, I
hailed a cab but it broke down, found a farm, bought
a horse but it dropped dead, ran 10 miles, and now
I'm here."
The General was very skeptical about this explanation
but at least he was here so he let the G.I. go. Moments
later, eight more G.I.s came up to the general panting,
he asked them why they were late.
"Sorry, sir! I had a date and it ran a little late, I ran to the
bus but missed it, I hailed a cab but it broke down, found
a farm, bought a horse but it dropped dead, ran 10 miles,
and now I'm here."
The General eyed them, feeling very skeptical but since
he let the first guy go, he let them go, too. A ninth G.I.
jogged up to the General, panting heavily,
"Sorry, sir! I had a date and it ran a little late, I ran to the
bus but missed it, I hailed a cab but..."
"Let me guess," the General interrupted, "it broke down."
"No," said the G.I., "there were so many dead horses in
the road, it took forever to get around them."
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