Accents
A trooper pulled over a pickup in Tennessee, and he asks, “Got any ID?”
The driver replies, “Bout whut?”
Hard work not appreciated
A man confided to a friend, “I got fired from my job as a taxi driver. Turns out my customers didn’t like it when I tried to go the extra mile.”
That’s not it
Murphy applied for a fork lift operator job at an Irish firm based in Dublin. A Norwegian applied for the same job. Since both applicants had similar qualifications, they were asked to take a test.
They were taken to a quiet room so that there would be no interruptions. When the results were in, both men scored 19 out of 20 and were informed of their grade.
The manager calls Murphy into the office and says, “Thank you for coming to the interview, but we have decided to give the job to the Norwegian.”
Murphy replies, “And why would you be doing that when we both have the same number of correct answers? This being Ireland and me being Irish, surely I should get the job.”
The manager explains, “We have made our decision not on the number of correct answers, but on the question you got wrong. On question number 7, the Norwegian wrote ‘I don’t know.’ You put down, ‘Neither do I.’”
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