"Yes," the company agreed. "But how does it jump as high as the Woolworth Building?"
"The Woolworth Building," the humorist explained, "can't jump."
QUARRELSOME
The applicant for the position of cook explained to the lady why she had left her last place:
"To tell the truth, mum, I just couldn't stand the way the master and the mistress was always quarreling."
"That must have been unpleasant," the lady agreed.
"Yis, mum," the cook declared, "they was at it all the time. When it wasn't me an' him, it was me an' her."
QUESTIONS
It was a rule of the club that anyone asking a question which he himself could not answer must pay a fine. One of the members presented a question as to why a ground-squirrel in digging left no dirt around the entrance to its hole. He was finally called on for the answer, and explained that of course the squirrel began at the bottom and dug upward.
"Excellent!" a listener laughed. "But how does the squirrel manage to reach the bottom?"