Daily Joke: Jokes Library

The bell above the door of “Elegance Boutique” chimed softly, but inside the manager’s glass-walled office, the atmosphere was anything but elegant. Mrs. Vance, the store’s stern but fair manager, sat across from Janet, one of her newest sales clerks. She tapped a manicured fingernail against a spreadsheet.

“Janet, I’ll be direct,” Mrs. Vance began, her tone serious but not unkind. “Your sales figures are well below any of our other clerks. I’m sorry to say that unless you can improve your record soon, we will have to let you go.”

Janet’s shoulders slumped. She wasn’t lazy, just naturally blunt and entirely unpracticed in the art of retail flattery. “I’m sorry, ma’am,” she replied humbly. “Is there any advice you could give me on how to do better?”

Mrs. Vance softened. “There is an old trick I can tell you about. It may sound silly, but it has worked wonders for me in the past. Go home, open a dictionary, and find a word that has particular power and positivity for you. Memorize it, and work it into your sales pitch whenever a customer is talking. You’ll be amazed at the results.”

Determined to save her job, Janet took the advice to heart. She spent the entire weekend flipping through her dictionary until she found the perfect word. On Monday morning, she walked into the boutique with renewed confidence. Her chosen power word? “Fantastic.”

By the end of the month, Janet’s sales figures had skyrocketed. Impressed, Mrs. Vance called her back into the office to congratulate her. “Did you try my little trick?” the manager asked, genuinely curious.

“Yes, I did,” Janet nodded proudly. “It took me all weekend to find just the right word, but I got it: ‘Fantastic’.”

“‘Fantastic’. What an excellent, uplifting word,” the manager said, smiling. “How have you been using it?”

“Well,” Janet began, “my first customer on Monday was a woman who told me her little girl had just been accepted into the most exclusive prep school in the city. I looked at her and said, ‘Fantastic.’ She went on to tell me how her daughter always gets straight A’s and is the most popular girl in her class. I said, ‘Fantastic,’ and she walked out with $450 worth of clothing.”

Janet continued, gaining momentum. “My next customer told me she was in charge of the Spring Ball at the country club and needed a new formal dress. I said, ‘Fantastic.’ She went on to tell me she has the best figure of anyone on the committee and her husband makes the most money. I said, ‘Fantastic,’ and she not only bought the designer gown, but hundreds of dollars of accessories, too. It’s been like that all week: the customers keep boasting, I keep saying ‘Fantastic’, and they keep buying.”

“Excellent work, Janet,” the manager complimented, thoroughly pleased. “Out of curiosity, what did you used to say to customers before you discovered your power word?”

Janet shrugged, her face the picture of innocent sincerity, and replied:
I used to say, ‘Who gives a sh*t!

It was a bright, cheerful Tuesday morning in Mrs. Higgins’ third-grade classroom, and she had decided to start the day with a little creative exercise. Instead of a boring, traditional roll call, she asked each student to stand up and introduce themselves with a short, rhyming poem. The class was thrilled, and the energy in the room was buzzing with anticipation.

The very first student to be called was Timothy, the undisputed teacher’s pet who sat in the front row. He stood up straight, adjusted his glasses, and recited with perfect, eager enthusiasm:

“My name is Tim,
and when I grow up, I’m going to win.
I’d like to travel to Japan if I can,
and I think I can!”

Mrs. Higgins beamed, clapping softly. “Wonderful, Timothy! Very creative.”

Next, she called on sweet little Suzy, who sat right in the middle of the room. Suzy stood up, smoothed her dress, and answered the roll call with a bright, innocent smile:

“My name is Suzy,
and when I grow to be a lady,
I would like to have a baby if I can,
and I think I can!”

The class giggled at her adorable honesty, and Mrs. Higgins chuckled warmly, marking her present on the clipboard.

Then, Mrs. Higgins’ eyes drifted to the back of the room. It was Little Johnny’s turn. Johnny, the class’s resident quick-witted troublemaker, slowly stood up. He shoved his hands into his pockets, looked around the room with the confident swagger of a seasoned poet, and cleared his throat.

He looked directly at the teacher and declared:
“My name is Johnny,
and I don’t give a damn about Japan,
but I would be happy to help Suzy with her plan,
if I can…
and I think I can!”

One afternoon, Superman found himself with nothing to do. The world was unusually quiet—no villains robbing banks, no meteors threatening Earth, and no calls from the Justice League. With time on his hands, he decided to fly around the city just to enjoy the view.

As he soared over the neighborhoods, something caught his eye.

Wonder Woman had left her bedroom window wide open.

Curious, Superman slowed down and hovered just outside. Inside, Wonder Woman was lying on her bed without any clothes on, stretching and shifting around as though she were trying to get comfortable after a long day.

Superman looked around to make sure no one else was nearby.

A mischievous thought crossed his mind.

“I’m Superman,” he thought. “I’m faster than the speed of sound. I could zip in and out before she even realizes anyone was there.”

After a brief moment of hesitation, temptation got the better of him.

In a blue-and-red blur, Superman shot through the open window, made his lightning-fast visit, and was back in the air in less than a second, disappearing over the rooftops.

A moment later, Wonder Woman suddenly sat upright.

“What the heck was that?” she exclaimed, looking around the room in complete confusion.

From somewhere nearby came a painful groan.

The Invisible Man winced and said,

“I have no idea… but my butt hurts like crazy.”

The mirrored walls of the elevator in the city’s most exclusive, high-rise apartment building gleamed under the soft, ambient lighting. Inside stood an older woman in a simple, sensible cardigan, quietly clutching her handbag.

The doors slid open on the ground floor, and a stunning, impeccably dressed young woman stepped in. She carried herself with an air of absolute superiority. She turned to the older woman, gave a haughty little sniff of the air, and announced with a smug, condescending smile, “Ralph Lauren Romance. One hundred and eighty dollars an ounce.”

The older woman just blinked politely and said nothing.

A moment later, the doors opened again on the second floor. Another gorgeous, fashionably clad young woman glided in. She, too, looked the older woman up and down before tossing her perfectly styled hair and declaring, “Chanel No. 5. Two hundred and twenty dollars.”

The two young women exchanged a knowing, superior smirk, clearly enjoying their little game of olfactory one-upmanship. The older woman remained completely silent, her expression unreadable as she stared straight ahead at the floor numbers lighting up.

Ding. The third floor.

The older woman’s destination. She turned slowly to face the two glamorous women. She looked them both dead in the eye, let out a loud, unapologetic, rumbling fart that echoed perfectly off the mirrored walls, and said with absolute, deadpan sincerity:

“Heinz Baked Beans. One dollar and fifty cents.”

It was late on a Tuesday evening, and the subway car was mostly empty, save for the rhythmic clacking of the tracks and the flickering fluorescent lights. Father Thomas, a well-meaning but occasionally stern parish priest, was sitting quietly, reading his breviary.

The doors hissed open at the next station, and a rather disheveled man stumbled in and collapsed into the seat right next to him. The man was a walking disaster: his tie was stained with something unidentifiable, his collar was smudged with bright red lipstick, and a half-empty bottle of cheap whiskey was peeking out of his torn trench coat pocket. He smelled distinctly of a long night at the pub.

Ignoring the priest entirely, the man pulled a crumpled newspaper from his pocket, smoothed it out on his lap, and began to read.

After a few minutes of silence, the man suddenly folded the paper down, turned to Father Thomas, and asked with genuine curiosity, “Say, Father, what causes arthritis?”

Father Thomas saw this as a divine opportunity for a teachable moment. He straightened his posture, fixed the man with a look of righteous authority, and replied, “My son, arthritis is the body’s physical manifestation of a sinful life. It is caused by loose living, consorting with cheap, wicked women, consuming far too much alcohol, harboring contempt for your fellow man, sleeping around with prostitutes, and a general lack of basic hygiene.”

The man blinked slowly. He stared at the priest for a long moment, muttered a quiet, “Well, I’ll be damned,” and calmly turned the page of his newspaper.

Father Thomas sat there, the weight of his own words suddenly hitting him. He realized he had just unleashed a fiery, judgmental sermon on a clearly broken man in a public transit car. Overcome with pastoral guilt, he gently nudged the man’s arm.

“I’m very sorry, my son,” the priest said, his voice softening with genuine remorse. “I didn’t mean to come on so strong or judge you. Please, forgive me. How long have you been suffering from arthritis?”

The man lowered the newspaper, looked the priest dead in the eye with absolute, innocent sincerity, and said:
“I don’t have it, Father. I was just reading here in the paper that the Pope does.”