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Bank-Banks-Banking

82. Office boy: "I think I know what's wrong with this country'"

Bank executive: "And what's that, sonP"

Office boy: "We're trying to run America with only one vice-president."

83. A wealthy Texas oilman cashed a huge personal check which came back from the bank with "INSUFFICIENT FUNDS" stamped across its face. Beneath the stamped words was the handwritten notation: "Not you ... us."

84. Wanting to borrow some money to make a six-month tour of Europe, a man went to the bank where he had done business for years. The bank refused the loan.

He went to another bank and obtained the loan without any difficulty. Then he bought a five-pound fish, had it wrapped, and put it in his safe-deposit box at the first bank as he joyfully left town for six months.

85. The burglars had tied and gagged the bank cashier after extracting the combination to the safe and had herded the other employees into a separate room under guard. After they rifled the safe and were about to leave the cashier made desperate pleading noises through the gag. Moved bv curiosity one of the burglars loosened the gag.

"Please!" whispered the cashier, "take the books, too: I'm $6,500 short."

Barber-Barber shop

86. "Your dog likes to watch you cut hair, doesn't he" "It ain't that. Sometimes I snip off a bit of ear."