STATE JOKES IV

ILLINOIS

MISSISSIPPI

NEW YORK

NEWJERSEY

 

This is how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, "Gee, I like the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough."

 

Q. How do you know when you're staying in a Mississippi hotel?

A. You call the front desk and say, "I've got a leak in my sink," and the person at the front desk says,    "Go ahead." 

New York is the city that never sleeps - and looks like it.

Three contractors bid on a minor fence-repair job at the White House. The first contractor, from Florida, comes in with a bid of $1,000: $400 for material, $400 for labor, and $200 profit. The second contractor, from Tennessee, says he'll do the same job for $800: $300 for material, $300 for labor, and $200 profit.

Then comes the contractor from New Jersey, who submits a bid for $100,800. "Why so much," asks the startled government official. "Well," says the contractor, "I figure $50,000 for me, $50,000 for you, and $800 for the guy from Tennessee to fix the fence."

Credit:

Reader's Digest 

January, 2009