Feature Commentary

August 21st, 2008

Confession Time

When we mess up we do it big time. In the August 7th edition of The Paper and the “Give Us This Day our Daily Chuckle” we had a joke that, through an editing error, cut off the punch line.

Our phones rang off the hook!

We halfway decided to cut the punch line out more often as it gives us a mighty good idea of how many readers we have!

Here’s the joke. (With the punchline!)

There was a Georgia phone company that was going to hire one team of telephone pole installers, and the boss had to choose between a team of two rednecks and a team of two Irish guys.

So the boss met with both teams and said: "Here's what we'll do. Each team will be installing poles out on the new road for a day. The team that installs the most phone poles gets the job."

Both teams headed right out. At end of the shift, Pat and Mike, the Irish guys, came back and the boss asked them how many they had installed. They said that it was tough going, but they'd put in twelve.

Forty-five minutes later, Bubba and Derrell, the redneck guys came back and they were totally exhausted. The boss asked, "Well, how many poles did you guys install?"

Bubba, the team leader wiped his brow and sighed, "Derrell and me, we got three in."

The boss gasped, "Three?" "Those two Irish guys put in twelve!"

"Yeah," said Derrell, "but you should see how much they left stickin' out of the ground!

(We promise to try and never cut a punchline again! Honest!)