AdadlaA.89 net.jokes utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!cbosg!teklabs!tekmdp!dadlaB!dadlaA!steve Tue Feb 16 11:44:14 1982 Ethnic Joke A certain ethnic needed work, so after hunting for quite a while (and not having any luck - times are hard) he finally went to the highway department of his state, and talked to the supervisor. "The only job we have is painting lines on roads. Do you want it?" "Yes", he said. "OK, then, show up here Monday morning and I will show you what to do." The next Monday morning bright and early the ethnic showed up, and the supervisor drove him out to a stretch of road in the country that needed painting. The supervisor put a can of paint on the road and handed the ethnic a paint brush and said, in essence, "Go to it" and left. One week later, the supervisor came out to see how much the ethnic had accomplished. The ethnic had painted almost 5 miles, which was very good by the standards of the highway dept. "Very good" he said and left. The next week he checked again, and the ethnic had painted 2 more miles. This was still creditable, but of course well down from the first week. "Keep it up", he said, and left. The third week there was only another half a mile done. At this point the supervisor asked the ethnic "What is the deal? You did really well the first week. How come you got so little done last week?" "Well, I have to run farther and farther to get to the paint can." ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.