| Godzilla |
01-02-2004 05:43 PM |
Humor of the blind
A man owns a lumberyard. His business is picking up and he decides to hire some help. He puts an ad in the paper and the next day an old man comes up to apply for the job. The lumberyard owner looks him, noticing the dark glasses and lack of focus and asks, "Are you blind?" The old man replies, "Why, yes I am. But I have the best sense of smell you've ever seen. I can recognize any type of wood just by the smell. I can tell the size and shape and stack it perfectly with the like-smelling wood. Just try me." The lumberyard owner brings over a board and the old man says, "Pine, two by four." and stacks the board on the right pile. So the lumberyard owner decides to test the old man further, but the old man nails each board perfectly, even the rare yew 2 by 12. But the owner is too worried about his liability insurance to hire a blind man so he decides to trick him. He goes into the office, explains the situation to his secretary and tells her to strip naked, lay in front of the blind man and baffle his amazing sense of smell. The secretary complies and old man takes a deep whiff. Then he takes another whiff. "I can't quite place this one," he admits, "Would you mind turning it over." So the owner has the secretary roll over. Again the blind man takes a deep sniff, and another deeper sniff. "So, can you recognize it?" the owner asks smugly. "Not exactly," the blind man replies, "But if I had to guess, I'd say it was a shit-house door off a tuna boat."
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