joke of teh day

kermalou

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THE WORKING U.S.

For a couple years I have been blaming it on lack of sleep and too
much pressure from my job, but now I found out the real reason: I am tired
because I am overworked.

The population of this country is 237 million. 104 million are retired. That
leaves 133 million to do the work.

There are 85 million in school, which leaves 48 million to do the
work. Of this there are 29 million employed by the federal government,
leaving 19 million to do the work. 2.8 million are in the Armed Forces,
which leaves 16.2 million to do the work.

Take from the total the 14,800,000 people who work for State and City
Governments and that leaves 1.4 million to do the work.
At any given time there are 188,000 people in hospitals, leaving
1,212,000 to do the work.

Now, there are 1,211,998 people in prisons. That leaves just two
people to do the work.

You and I. And you are sitting at your computer reading jokes.
 

DaShen

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What is funny is I didn't think a joke could be lame and funny at the same time, but I am mistaken.
8/10
 

IonYou

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This joke is so old the U.S. population actually was 237million when it was first told. I remember this joke back in 95 when I first got on the internet. But it was funny then and it's still funny now, you just got to update those numbers a bit so you don't get nerds furiously linking to the census statistics next time you tell it.
 

NiKeFiDO

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lol, good one. good point about how our statistics are fscked up also (well...who knows where the #s came from when the joke originated...)
 

Koenigsegg

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Originally posted by: IonYou
This joke is so old the U.S. population actually was 237million when it was first told. I remember this joke back in 95 when I first got on the internet. But it was funny then and it's still funny now, you just got to update those numbers a bit so you don't get nerds furiously linking to the census statistics next time you tell it.

Yeah it really shows its age with that stat..