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In lieu of the awful news all around I thought levity might help.
This joke involves testicles so if you are offended read no further
The joke is really a type of a political chess strategy that we need to adapt.
An elderly woman walked into the Bank
of Canada one morning with a purse full of money. She wanted to open a
savings account and insisted on talking to the
president of the Bank because,
she said, she had a lot of money.
After many lengthy discussions (after
all, the client is always right) an employee took the elderly
woman to the president's office.
The president of the Bank asked her how
much she wanted to deposit and she replied,
"$165,000".
The president was curious and asked her how she had been able to save so much money.
The elderly woman replied that she made bets.
The president was surprised and asked,
"What kind of bets?"
The elderly woman replied, "Well, I bet
you $25,000 that your testicles are square."
The president started to laugh and told
the woman that it was impossible to win a bet like that.
The woman never batted an eye. She just looked at the
president and said, "Would you like to take my bet?"
"Certainly", replied the president. "I bet you $25,000 that
my testicles are not square."
"Done", the elderly woman answered.
"But given the amount of money involved, if you don't mind I would like to
come back at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning with my lawyer as a
witness."
"No problem", said the president of the
Bank confidently.
That night, the president became very
nervous about the bet and spent a long time in front of the
mirror examining his testicles, turning them this way and
that, checking them over again and again until he was positive
that no one could consider his testicles as square and
reassuring himself that there
was no way he could lose the bet.
The next morning at exactly 10 o'clock
the elderly woman arrived at the president's office with
her lawyer and acknowledged the $25,000 bet made the
day before that the president's testicles were square.
The president confirmed that the bet
was the same as the one made the day before. Then the elderly
woman asked him to drop his pants etc. so that she and her
lawyer could see clearly.
The president was happy to oblige.
The elderly woman came closer so she
could see better and asked the president if she could touch
them. "Of course",said the
president. "Given the amount of money
involved, you should be 100% sure."
The elderly woman did so with a little
smile. Suddenly the president noticed that the lawyer was
banging his head against the wall. He asked the elderly woman
why he was doing that and she replied
"Oh, it's probably
because I bet him$100,000
that around 10 o'clock in the morning
I would be holding the balls of the President of the Bank of
Canada!"
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