DAVE’S TOP SIX On Dave Letterman’s Late Show on November 26, 1994 Dave read his top ten list. He told the top ten “Signs You’ve Eaten too Much.” Here are
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PACKS HIS OWN LUNCH A group of high-rise construction workers would eat their lunches on the top of the sky-scraper they were building. Everyday they would complain that they always
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CHOICE OF TURKEYS Two employees returned to work after the Thanksgiving weekend. “Did you have a good Thanksgiving?” one asked the other. The second employee answered: “We had a wonderful
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WRONG MAN There is nothing quite like a story of humiliation to make us thankful–thankful it was not one of us! Here is one such story: An unidentified English woman,
BORN IN A BARN A four-year-old girl often forgot to close the door when coming in from outside. Finally, her father scolded her, “Shut that door! Were you born in
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JELLY TOAST PROCLAMATION The Christmas program was just one week away, and the little girl was practicing her songs. Her mother overheard her daughter in the other room practicing “Hark
FRESH CHRISTMAS STORY She was five, sure of the facts, and recited them with slow solemnity, convinced every word was revelation. She said they were so poor they had only
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STOLEN GIFTS When Adlai Stevenson worked for the Agricultural Administration, he received a Christmas gift from a walnut company: a large sack of individually packaged walnuts. He received this gift
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CHRISTMAS WITH GRANDPARENTS After Christmas vacation, a teacher asked her small pupils to write an account of how they spent their holidays. One youngster wrote about a visit to his
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RUDOLPH THE RED On a tour of Russia during the days of communism, Mr. and Mrs. Jones spent a very pleasant time with their guide Rudolph. However, on the last
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UNWRAPPING WRAPPERS Remember, if you give someone wrapping paper for a Christmas present, be sure to wrap it in a different pattern of wrapping paper–so the recipient will know when
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BETTER TO MOW INDOORS A little boy received a toy lawnmower for Christmas. He pretended to use it in the house but was well aware that he was not really
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THE WAY YOU FOUND IT A woman called a specialty store and asked the manager if he could get her one dozen mice and three dozen cockroaches. The manager said,
EMPTY NOTE A man accidentally backed into a car in the parking lot of a shopping mall. He got out, took paper and pencil and wrote a note: “People are
FOOLS IN LOVE After a quarrel, a wife said to her husband, “You know, I was a fool when I married you.” And the husband replied, “Yes, dear, but I
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PSYCHIATRIC HOTLINE “Hello. Welcome to the Psychiatric Hotline. If you are obsessive-compulsive, please press 1 repeatedly. If you are co-dependent, please ask someone to press 2. If you have multiple
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MAD COW DISEASE One cow looked at another cow and asked “Have you heard about the new mad cow disease going around?” The other cow answered, “What do I care?
DRINK COFFEE & TALK One evening, a man and his wife called another couple to see what they were doing. “Oh,” said the other wife, “we’re just drinking coffee and
ORGANIZED FIST In one Peanuts cartoon it shows, in one series of panels, Linus watching television all alone. In storms Lucy. She demands that he change the channel to what
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IMPROVEMENT ON SILENCE A tourist spending the night in a small Vermont town joined a group of men sitting on the porch of the general store. After several vain attempts
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