A man with a lisp...

Joe, an average guy who has a prominent lisp is having difficulty with his current job. He is a salesman at a prominent toothbrush company but can't seem to sell a single toothbrush.

His boss Frank calls him and his other coworkers into his office for their weekly meeting.

"What is the sales report this week gentlemen?" Frank asks.

All of Joes co-workers give their reports, each of them claiming that they sold a few hundred toothbrushes. Frank nods and jots down a few notes as each recites their sales figures. Then he looks to Joe.

"Sssorry sssir. I jusst don't know what'ss going on." Joe replies.

Frank shakes his head and lowers his notepad. "Well Joe," he begins. "Upper management is coming down on me. If you don't sell 100 toothbrushes by the end of the month. Your fired."

Joe sighs but nods, and everybody leaves to go sell toothbrushes.

The next Monday comes and it's the same routine. All of Joes co-workers claiming that they sold more toothbrushes then last week, and Joe stammering that he didn't sell a single one.

After the meeting as everybody is leaving Frank calls Joe into his office.

"Look bud, I do not want to fire you. You really need to figure something out though or I am going to have to." Frank says.

Joe nods, but knows it's futile.

"Maybe, if you got a slogan, or a stand or a gimmick or something?" Frank states.

"Gimmick?" Joe askes "What the hell is a gimmick?"

"A gimmick! You know, something that attracts attention." Frank explains.

Joe thinks for a minute and nods slowly. "Gimmick. Ok."

And he leaves.

The next Monday Frank calls everybody into the office and goes over the figures as before. Feeling a bit worried, he gets to Joe.

Frank doesn't say anything, just looks a Joe with a raised eyebrow.

Joe beams a wide grin and states "One billion"

The notepad in Frank's hand hits the floor as everybody around Joe gasps.

"H-How?" Frank stammers.

"Well," Joe explains "I took your adviccce. I got a sstand, with sssome chipsss and sssome dip and ssetup outside an airport gate. Asss people would leave the plane I would assk 'Would you like sssome chipss?' They would ssay yesss. Then, I would assk 'would you like some dip?' Again, they would ssay yesss. Then, they would take their chip, and dip it in the dip and eat it."

Frank waved his hand and Joe, encouraging him to finish the story.

"Then, they would sspit it out and sssay 'agh! Thiss tastesss like ssshit.' Then I ssmile and ssay, thatss causse it is. Wanna buy a toothbrush?"


(it's not my joke and it's much better heard in person. However I'm newish to Reddit and I haven't seen it on here before and I noticed people complaining about the re-posts so I gave it a shot.)

Additionally I apologize for poor grammar, I'm on my phone. :)

Cheers!