Friday, January 02, 2004


Irish Intellectual

An Irishman was descended from a long line of literature-loving ancestors who instilled in him a deep knowledge of the classics. One day he went for a job on a building site and the foreman said he must ask him a question or two to make sure he was qualified.

"Do you know the difference between a girder and a joist?" the foreman asked.

"Ah, to be sure, that's an easy one," the Irishman said. "Goethe wrote Faust and Joyce wrote Ulysses."

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