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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."

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