MONTHLY JOKE

The Bored Man 

Ralph enters a bar and is looking very depressed.  His friend asks, “Why the long face, Ralph?”

"Oh, I'm just bored. I know every person in the entire world, and there's just nothing left to challenge me."

 Do you know Paul McCartney?"  Ralph says, "Sure, Paul's an old friend of mine and he goes over to a phone, dials a number and his friend hears a British accent saying, "Hey Ralph, how ya doing?"

When Ralph hangs up, his friend isn’t really sure it was Paul McCartney and  asks if he knows the president.  Ralph says, "Sure, we go way back." This time he lets him listen in as he calls a private number. It sounds like the president on the other end of the line, and they go into a big discussion of the current economic scene, and Ralph offers a few suggestions. Drawing the conversation to a close, Ralph wishes him well and hangs up.

His friend is dumbfounded at this point. There must be someone you don't know and says how about the Pope.  Do you know the Pope?    

Ralph claims to know him and decides to fly his friend to the Vatican for positive proof.

They arrive at the Vatican;   Ralph suggests his friend wait out in the Papal square until he has cleared things with the Pope. The friend is standing in the courtyard, when who walks out onto the balcony arm in arm with the Pope, but Ralph.

Ralph looks down and sees his friend collapsing.  Ralph runs down to help his friend.   "What happened to you? Couldn't you accept the fact I really do know the Pope?"

"Well, I'd begun to accept that possibility. But what really took my breath away was some stranger standing next to me who said, 'Who's that guy standing there next to Ralph?'"