15.6.11

AFrog&Hamster Joke

A beggar walks in a bar and asks for a free beer.
The barman looks at him and say: ok, but only if you have some tricks to show the customers.
The beggar takes a frog out of his pocket and puts it on the piano's keyboard.
The frog starts to play a ragtime blues and the customers are thrilled.
Then the beggar takes the frog back in his pocket and gets his free beer at the counter.
A fat, cocky, American producer happens to be there. He comes to the beggar and asks:

- How much for the frog?
- The frog is not for sale.
- 5,000 dollars? 10,000 dollars?
- The frog is not for sale.
- 50,000 dollars?

But the beggar stays silent. He drinks his beer, then asks the bartender for another beer.
- Do you have another trick?

The beggar puts the frog back on the keyboard and takes out of his pocket a hamster, which he puts on the counter. The frog starts to play another piece and the hamster starts to sing perfectly in tune.
The customers applause so much the whole bar vibrates.

Then the beggar takes his pets back in his pocket and comes to the bar to get his second free drink.
The fat producer rolls over to him again and asks:

- How much for the pair?
- The frog is not for sale.
- Ok then, how much for the hamster? 100,000 dollars?
- No.
- 500,000 dollars?
- No.
- 700,000 dollars? 1 million? 2 million dollars but that's my last offer. It is a lot of money for a person like you. Think carefully.
- Ok.

The beggar gives the hamster, the producer gives the money and leaves, very content.
A man who has followed the whole scene whispers to the beggar:

- Are you crazy, dude? Only 2 million dollars for a singing hamster? He is going to make ten times more in a day! You should have sold the frog for that price.
- I am not so sure, the beggar answers quietly. The frog is a ventriloquist.

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