Wife #1: "Hey, you look sad, what's the trouble?"
Wife #2: "Domestic trouble."
Wife #1: "But you always bragged that your husband is a pearl!"
Wife #2: "He still is. It's the mother-of-pearl that makes all the trouble."
My son wanted a proper drum kit for his birthday but I got him a miniature one.
I'm now expecting wee percussions.
Halfway between New York City and Washington DC the train's engine fell silent.
"I've got good news and bad news," the conductor announced. "The bad news is that we lost power."
The passengers groaned.
"The good news," he added, "is we weren't cruising at 30,000 feet."
An American manufacturer is showing his machine factory to a potential customer from a foreign country. At noon, when the lunch whistle blows, two thousand men and women immediately stop work and leave the building.
"Your workers, they're escaping!" cries the visitor. "You've got to stop them."
"Don't worry, they'll be back," says the American. And indeed, at exactly one o'clock the whistle blows again, and all the workers return from their break.
When the tour is over, the manufacturer turns to his guest and says, "Well, now, which of these machines would you like to order?"
"Forget the machines," says the visitor. "How much do you want for that whistle?