Saturday, December 11, 2010
JOKE:"I don't know you, you don't know me, we don't know anyone here, and they don't know us
A young man checked into a hotel late one rainy night and the innkeeper gave him the only remaining room. A few hours later, a beautiful girl came to the hotel and also wanted a room. The innkeeper told her, "I have no more rooms, but the last man who checked in seemed nice enough. I suppose you could share his room." She agreed, went to his room, and the man agreed to let her sleep in his chair. After a while, she tapped the man on the shoulder and said, "Look, I don't know you, you don't know me, we don't know anyone here, and they don't know us... so is it all right if I sleep on your couch?" "Sure," the man said. A little while later, she asked him, "Look, I don't know you, you don't know me, we don't know anyone here, and they don't know us... so is it all right if I get under the covers with you?" "Sure!" said the man. A few minutes later, she whispered, "Look, I don't know you, you don't know me, we don't know them, and they don't know us... so how about if we have a party?" "Look," the man replied, "I don't know you, you don't know me, we don't know them, and they don't know us... so who are we going to invite?!"
Good Manners Rewarded: Filipino wins lottery after woman in line pushes ahead of him
Good manners have paid dividends for a man in the Philippines who won 741m pesos ($17m: �10.5m) in a lottery.
An official for the national lottery said the father-of-three was next in a queue to buy a ticket when a woman rudely pushed in ahead of him.
He graciously let her go ahead, and in turn he bought the winning ticket, choosing "lucky pick" numbers.
He is believed to be a Filipino in his sixties, living in the US, who was back in the Philippines visiting family.
The lottery agency has a policy of keeping the names of winners secret, partly to protect them from kidnap attempts.
When the draw was made on 29 November, nobody had won the lottery since 15 May.
The prize money had accumulated over 86 consecutive draws to become the country's biggest ever jackpot and millions of people bought tickets.
The winner beat odds of one in nearly 29m.
But the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) says he forgot to check the lottery numbers for a week and when he realised he had won, his response was gracious.
"When he won, he kept thinking: how sad for that woman. She could have won the big prize if she had just been patient," PCSO chair, Margie Juico told AFP.
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