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A lawyer and
a blonde woman are sitting next to each other on a long flight from L.A.
to New York. The lawyer
leans over
to her and asks if she would like to play a fun game. The blonde is tired
and just wants to take a nap,
so she politely
declines and rolls over to the window to catch a few winks.
The lawyer
persists and explains how the game works:
"I ask you
a question, and if you don't know the answer, you pay me, and visa-versa."
Again, she
politely declines and tries to get some sleep.
The chauvinistic
lawyer figures he will easily win the match since his opponent is a blonde,
so he makes another offer:
"Okay, how
about this. If you don't know the answer you pay me only $5, but if I don't
know the answer, I will
pay you $50."
This catches
the blonde's attention and, figuring that there will be no end to this
torment unless she plays, she agrees to play the game.
The lawyer
asks the first question.
"What's the
distance from the earth to the moon?" The blonde doesn't say a word, reaches
into her purse, pulls
out a five-dollar
bill and hands it to the lawyer. Now it's the blonde's turn. She asks the
lawyer, "What goes up a
hill with
three legs and comes down with four?"
The lawyer
looks at her with a puzzled look.
He takes out
his laptop computer and searches all his references. He taps into the airphone
with his modem and
searches the
Net and even the Library of Congress.
Frustrated,
he sends e-mails to all his friends and co-workers
- all to no
avail. After over an hour of searching for the answer, he finally gives
up. He wakes the blonde and
hands her
$50.
The blonde
politely takes the $50 and turns away to get back to sleep. The lawyer,
who is more
than a little
frustrated, wakes the blonde and asks, "Well, so what IS the answer?"
Again without
a word, the blonde reaches into her purse, hands the lawyer $5, and goes
back to sleep.
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