Morris, a city boy, moved to the country and bought a donkey from an old farmer for $100. The farmer agreed to deliver the mule the next day. The next day, the farmer drove up and said, “Sorry, but I have some bad news. The donkey died.”
“Well, then, just give me my money back.”
“Can’t do that. I went and spent it already.”
“OK, then. Just unload the donkey.”
“What ya gonna do with him?”
“I’m going to raffle him off.”
“You can’t raffle off a dead donkey!”
“Sure I can. Watch me. I just won’t tell anybody he’s dead.”
A month later the farmer met up with the city boy and asked, “Whatever happened with that dead donkey?”
“I raffled him off. I sold five hundred tickets at two dollars apiece and made a profit of $998.”
“Didn’t anyone complain?”
“Just the guy who won. So I gave him his two dollars back.”
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Point in fact, donkeys live for upto 40 years. Now that is a long time. I suppose that this quote meant that if you have seen a dead donkey then you must be really old. like saying a complement to someone that he/she that old and the only time they should is, if when seen a dead donkey.
We had a pinball machine in our basement (it’s still in my parents’ basement), so I played that all the time. My brother and I also spent countless hours playing Donkey Kong & Donkey Kong, Jr. on my Vic20 and Zaxxon & Super Zaxxon on my brother’s C-64.
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She replies, “I won it in a raffle at work. Go get my bath ready while I dinner.”
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