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The Quarter Gag

A dad walks into the market with his ten year old son. The kid is spinning a quarter in the air and catching it between his teeth. As they walk through the market someone bumps into the boy at just the wrong moment and the coin goes straight into his mouth and lodges in his throat. He immediately starts choking and turning blue in the face and Dad starts to panic, shouting and screaming for help.

A middle aged, fairly unnoticeable man in a gray suit is sitting at a coffee bar in the market reading his newspaper and sipping a cup of coffee. At the sound of the commotion he looks up, puts his coffee cup down on his saucer, neatly folds his newspaper and places it on the counter.

He gets up from his seat and makes his unhurried way across the market. Reaching the boy (who is standing, but only just) the man carefully takes hold of the boy's testicles in his hand and squeezes them very firmly.

After a few seconds the boy convulses violently and coughs up the 25-cent piece, which the man catches neatly with his free hand. Releasing the boy's balls, the man hands the coin to the father and walks back to his seat in the coffee bar without saying a word. As soon as he is sure that his son has suffered no lasting ill effects, the father rushes over to the man and starts effusively thanking him.

The man looks embarrassed and brushes off the father's thanks. As he is about to leave, the father asks one last question: "I've never seen anybody do anything like that before - it was fantastic - what are you, a surgeon or something like that?"

"Oh good heavens no," the man replies, "I work for the Internal Revenue Service."

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