Hans called Ole long distance and asked him to loan him $5. “I can’t hear you, Hans,” said Ole. “Dis line must be bad.”
The operator broke in to say, “I can hear him perfectly clear.”
“Vell,” said Ole, “If yew can hear him so good, vhy don’t yew lend him da five bucks?” ~~~ Ole was reading the paper. “Lena,” he said, “dis is really interesting. De bathtub vas invented in 1850 and da telephone vasn’t…