A lady wakes up one morning and notices a large gorilla climbing on the elm tree in her backyard. Beside herself, she doesn't know what to do, but she thinks of looking in the phone book. And sure enough, there is a listing for "Gorilla Catcher", which she immediately phones. The man on the phone calms her and then asks her two questions: First, "where is the gorilla?" and "What sex is the gorilla?" Slightly puzzled, the woman responds and the gorilla catcher says he will be at her house in 10 minutes.
Ten minutes later, the gorilla catcher arrives and unloads a number of items from his truck, including a ladder, a saw, a net, a gun and a ferocious dog. He then explains he plan to the lady: "Ok, here is what I'm going to do. I'm going to climb up to the limb with the gorilla using the ladder. I will then saw off the limb and the gorilla will fall into the net. This dog is specially trained to run up to the gorilla and subdue it by grabbing it by the balls. Now the only thing that can go wrong with this plan is if the gorilla should knock me out of the tree before I'm able to saw off the limb. That's what the gun is for." "I see", says the lady, "You want me to shoot the gorilla with the gun?" "No!" the man shouted, "Shoot the dog!"
--- Asimov joke
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