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A Retirement Bonus
The Pentagon recently discovered it had too many generals and offered
an early retirement bonus. They promised any general who retired
straight away his full annual benefits plus $10,000 for every inch
measured in a straight line between any two points on the general's
body, with the general getting to select any pair of points he wished.
The first man, an Air Force general, accepted. He asked the pension
man to measure from the top of his head to the tip of his toes.
Six feet. He walked out with a check of $720,000.
The second man, an Army general, asked them to measure from the
tip of his outstretched hands to his toes. Eight feet. He walked
out with a check for $960,000.
When the third general, a grizzled old Marine, was asked where
to measure, he told the pension man: "From the tip of my penis to
the bottom of my testicles." The pension man suggested that perhaps
the Marine general might like to reconsider, pointing out the nice
checks the previous two generals had received. The Marine insisted
and the pension expert said that would be fine but that he'd better
get the medical officer to do the measuring. The medical officer
attended and asked the general to drop them. He did.
The medical officer placed the tape on the tip of the general's
penis and began to work back. "My God!" he said, "Where are your
testicles?"
The general replied, "In Vietnam."
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