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second opinion
A man brings his hamster to the vet's office and lays the hamster on the
examining room table. The vet looks at the hamster and says: "I'm sorry sir,
your hamster is dead."
Not at all happy with the vet's diagnosis, the man demands, "I want a second
opinion!"
The vet whistles and in comes a Labrador Retriever. The lab sniffs the
hamster for a minute, looks up, and shakes it's head. "The lab says your
hamster is dead." replies the vet.
"I want a third opinion!" The man demands. So the vet opens the back door
and in bounds a cat, who jumps on the table. The cat looks the hamster up
and down for a few minutes before looking up and shaking it's head. The vet
responds: "Your hamster is definitely dead, sir."
"All right what do I owe you?" The man asks, finally satisfied with the
diagnosis.
"That will be $650, please." The vet replies.
"WHAT?? $650 just to tell me my hamster's dead????"
"Well sir, it would have only cost you 50 dollars for my diagnosis. However
the other $600 was because you insisted on having the cat scan and the lab
test."
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Amerika by Franz Kafka
“As Karl Rossman, a poor boy of sixteen who had been packed off to America by his parents because a servant girl had seduced him and got herself a child by him, stood on the liner slowly entering the harbour of New York, a sudden burst of sunshine seemed to illumine the Statue of Liberty, so that he saw it in a new light, although he had sighted it long before. The arm with the sword rose up as if newly stretched aloft, and round the figure blew the free winds of heaven.”
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