Kennen was having a drink in a saloon when his neighbor, Stakely, came rushing in. “Ah think somebody’s stealin’ yore pickup truck!” the man said breathlessly. Kennan ran outside, but came back right away. “Well, did yew stop him?” asked Stakely. “Naw!” said the redneck. “He was too fast. But …

During a break on a North Dakota office building project, one of the construction workers approached Pyle. “Ah heard the boys is gonna strike,” he said. “What fer?” asked Pyle. “Shorter hours.” “Good fer them!” said the redneck. “Ah always did think sixty minutes was too long fer an hour!”

Police in Oakland, California spent two hours attempting to subdue a gunman who had barricaded himself inside his home. After firing ten tear gas canisters, officers discovered that the man was standing beside them, shouting please to come out and give himself up.

I live in a semi-rural area. We recently had a new neighbor call the local township administrative office to request the removal of the Deer Crossing sign on our road. The reason: Many deer were being hit by cars and he no longer wanted them to cross there.

My neighbor works in the operations department in the central office of a large bank. Employees in the field call him when they have problems with their computers. One night he got a call from a woman in one of the branch banks who had this question: “I’ve got smoke …

My daughter went to a local Taco Bell and ordered a taco. She asked the individual behind the counter for “minimal lettuce.” He said he was sorry, but they only had iceberg.

Police in Radnor, Pennsylvania, interrogated a suspect by placing a metal colander on his head and connecting it with wires to a photocopy machine. The message “He’s lying” was placed in the copier, and police pressed the copy button each time they thought the suspect wasn’t telling the truth. Believing …

Jim sees his neighbor out back building a bunker, loading in 75 gallons of bottled water, hauling in a gas generator and so on. “So, uh, I guess you believe Y2K is a biggie huh?” “Naw”, says the neighbor. “Ah’s jes’ stockin’ the bunker now, ‘cuz if I did it …

Swedish business consultant Ulf af Trolle labored 11 years on a book about Swedish economic solutions. He took the 175-page manuscript to be copied, only to have it reduced to 25,000 strips of paper in seconds when a worker confused the copier with the shredder.

According to the Knight-Ridder News Service, the inscription on the metal bands used by the U.S. Department of the Interior to tag migratory birds has been changed. The bands used to bear the address of the Washington Biological Survey, abbreviated, “Wash. Biol. Surv.” until the agency received the following letter …