5/26 Some system going & Are you English, German, or American?

Each Friday night I drove my wife to the train station so she could go visit her sister who was ill. Ten minutes later my sister arrived by train so that she could manage our house over the weekend while my wife was gone. On Sundays this procedure worked in reverse with my sister departing by train ten minutes before my wife arrived. One evening, after my sister left and while I awaited my wife's arrival, a porter sauntered over. "Mister," he said, "you sure have some system going but one of these days you're goin' to get caught!"

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It is said that when you tell an Englishman a joke, he will laugh three times. First - when you tell it, to be polite. Second - when you explain it, to be polite. And third -- in the middle of the night when he wakes up and finally gets it. When you tell a German the same joke, he will laugh twice. First - when you tell it, to be polite. And second when you explain it, to be polite. He won't laugh a third time because he will never get it. When you tell an American the same joke he won't laugh at all. Instead he will say, "It's an old joke and besides, you tell it all wrong!"

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