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- Path: sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!xenitec!looking!funny-request
- Message-ID: <S4ca.5f77@looking.on.ca>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 19:30:03 EST
- Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
- From: DSEWELL@ccit.arizona.edu
- Subject: The Great Ethnic Sewer Rat War
- Keywords: chuckle
- Approved: funny@clarinet.com
- Lines: 37
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- [The following joke is in .GEF format (Generic Ethnic Format);
- substitute your favorite ethnic or other subnormal group as needed.
- It's my version of something I found in a book on ethnic humor. -DS]
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-
- The sewer rat situation in New York was getting intolerable; the rats
- were multiplying like crazy and starting to do things like crawl up the
- pipes and bite people in the butt while they sat on the toilet. The
- Public Works Director decided it was time to declare all-out war on the
- rats.
-
- So he calls in the superintendent of the sewer system and tells him to
- find five men who'd be willing to live in the sewers 24 hours a day
- fighting rats. "Gee, boss," says the superintendent, "No one's going to
- put up with those conditions." "No problem," says the Director. "Go
- out and find five Ethnics and draft them. They're used to that kind of
- thing." The Director tells the superintendent to return with his men
- in a week to report on battle progress, and the superintendent takes off.
-
- A week later the superintendent shows up in the Director's office. He's
- exhausted, bruised and scratched up, and all by himself. "I think we've
- lost the war," he says.
-
- "What?! Where's the five Ethnics you drafted?" the Director asks.
-
- "That's the problem," says the superintendent. "Three of them defected
- to the enemy, and the other two have left the army to settle down with
- the war brides they brought back!"
-
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