A friend emailed me this joke. I hope it's not a recent repost! A travelling salesman is visiting a small town in southern Georgia, when...

...he spots a flyer on a telephone pole advertising a circus and carnival held by the locals for charity. But what REALLY catches his eye was the extra-large-type proclaiming:
“Don’t Miss the Amazing Perfesser!”

Curious, he buys a ticket and sits through the usual circus acts.. animals, clowns, contortionists, and other questionable acts. Finally the trumpets blare and all eyes turn to the center ring.

There in the middle of the ring is a table with three walnuts on it. In comes an old man – white hair, tall but stooped over with age, and barely able to walk to the table. He unzips his pants, whips out his lengthy tool, and proceeds to smash all three walnuts with three mighty swings! The crowd erupts in thunderous applause as the elderly Perfesser is carried off on the shoulders of clowns.

Twenty years later the salesman visits the same little town, and he sees a faded sign for the same circus and the same “Don’t Miss the Amazing Perfesser!”

The salesman can’t believe the old guy is still alive much less still doing his act!

Again he buys a ticket, sits through the acts, and again the center ring is illuminated. This time three coconuts are on the table and the old Perfesser takes forever to make it to the table. He smashes the coconuts with three swings of his amazing “weapon” and the crowd goes crazy!

The salesman requests a meeting with him after the show. As they talk in his dressing room he tells him he’s never seen anything like the act. But he wants to know why he is now smashing coconuts instead of the much easier walnuts.

“Hey,” says the old Perfesser, “at my age, my eyes aren’t what they used to be!”



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