Here’s a joke I opened my last two presentation I thought I’d share. Consider it an open source joke…take and use it, but if you make it better be sure to share.
So God calls a meeting, and to this meeting he invites Carl Linnaeus, the father of modern classification (he’s the guy who gave out all the latin names we had to memorize in biology), Melvil Dewey, and Penny a rural library director who had just passed away the week before.
God says, “Well I’ve done it. I’ve called the rapture and brought up all the souls from Earth for judgement. In fact they’re all behind that door over there. The problem is, when I came up with this plan there were a lot fewer people on Earth – like two – and you folks have been busy. There are now a couple billion souls in that room and I need some help in sorting the saved from the damned.”
“No problem,” says Linnaeus who stride confidently through the door.
An hour goes by, then two, then 5. Finally at 7 hours Linnaeus crawls back out of the door. His cloths are torn and he is clearly shaken.
“I couldn’t do it.” He says. “I was doing OK until I came upon a goth Japanese teenager and I ran out of Latin. It can’t be done.”
“I’m on it,” says Dewey who strides confidently through the door.
An hour goes by, then two, then three. Finally, 8 hours later Dewey crawls out of the door covered in sweat.
“It can’t be done! I had all the Christian denominations all sorted out, then I ran into a Jewish family and a couple of Muslims and I ran out of numbers.”
Upon hearing this, Penny turns on her heals, marches through the door, and one minute later walks back out “Done,” she says.
“That’s great,” says God. “But how did you do it?”
“I just asked everyone who had ever voted to increase library funding to raise their hands and told the rest they could go to hell.”
Well shoot, I just tried to give this a five-star rating, thinking you needed to click on each star individually, and it registered as a one-star! Thanks for sharing the joke!