Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1917 — Sure Thing. [ARTICLE]

Sure Thing.

The old jokes are often better than the new. Years ago a Cincinnati merchant used to have a sure-thing joke that he worked on his friends with great success. lie would meet a man and start criticizing the man’s personal appearance, and would wait until the man got good and hot under the collar. Then the merchant would rub It In by offering to bet that the other man didn’t have a whole shirt on his back. The bet always eagerly and Indignantly taken, and the merchant, the victim and the stakeholders would retire to a room. There the victim would take off his coal and vest and display his shirt. The result was always the same. The stakeholders had to admit that the victim did not have a whole shirt on his back. Half of the shirt was on his back! and the other half on his chest. \