Piquant Humour

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The U.S.S. Constitution (Old Ironsides), as a combat vessel, carried 48,600 gallons of fresh water for her crew of 475 officers and men. This was sufficient to last six months of sustained operations at sea. She carried no evaporators...

A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories.After about an hour, the manager came out of the office and asked them to disperse.”But why?” they asked, as they moved...

An engineer died and reported to the pearly gates.A newly anointed angel, filling in for St. Peter, checked his dossier and grimly said, “Ah, you’re an engineer; you’re in the wrong place.” So the engineer was cast down to the gates of hell a...

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It was the year 1890 and there were two Mexicans who had been lost in the desert for weeks, they were at death’s door.As they stumble on, hoping for salvation in the form of an oasis or something similar, they suddenly spy, through the heat haze, a...