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August 15, 2010

Family Joke


John was a salesman's delight when it came to any kind of unusual gimmicks. His wife Marsha had long ago given up trying to get him to change. One day John came home with another one of his unusual purchases. It was a robot that John claimed was actually a lie detector.

It was about 5:30 that afternoon when Tommy, their 11 year old son, returned home from school.. Tommy was over 2 hours late. "Where have you been? Why are you over 2 hours late getting home?" asked John.

"Several of us went to the library to work on an extra credit project," said Tommy. The robot walked around the table and slapped Tommy,
knocking him completely out of his chair..

"Son," said John, "this robot is a lie detector, now tell us where you really were after school."

"We went to Bobby's house and watched a movie." said Tommy.

"What did you watch?" asked Marsha.

"The Ten Commandments. " answered Tommy.

The robot went around to Tommy and once again slapped him, knocking him off his chair.. With his lip quivering, Tommy got up, sat down and said, "I am sorry I lied. We really watched a tape called Sex Queen.."

"I am ashamed of you son," said John. "When I was your age, I never lied to my parents."

The robot walked around to John and delivered a whack that nearly knocked him out of his chair.

Marsha doubled over in laughter, almost in tears and said, "Boy, did you ever ask for that one! You can't be too mad with Tommy. After all, he is your son!" The robot walked around to Marsha and knocked her out of her chair.

This joke is on answerology.com.

29 comments:

Kristina P. said...

Haha, this made me snort.

Cindy said...

Ha, that was hilarious, I think I have heard something like that before, always good for a laugh before bed. have a great Sunday, hugs.

Bernie said...

This is funny, I am going to check out that site...Have a great Sunday.....:-) Hugs

Opaque said...

Hahaha... this is funny!

Anne H said...

Very very funny!
Lve it!

African Refugees said...

I like it! Thanks for the laugh.

Dave King said...

Good post. Thanks for it.

Anonymous said...

LOL!! :-)

Unknown said...

...................... Funny. So funny even the inner me screams!!

Jeanie said...

That was a good one. The funniest jokes always have an element of "truth" in them.

DJan said...

Good thing there is no such thing as that robot! There wouldn't be a lot of happy partnerships, I suspect. Good story, TB!

Brian Miller said...

haha. oh my...i could see this one causing all kinda of trouble...lol.

Liz Mays said...

That made me completely laugh!

Casey Freeland said...

We'd all be a bit better behaved if we had that kind of Big Brother robot wandering around our house, eh? Just finished reading Robots of Dawn by Asimov, about a robot infused society. Had some similarities to this joke.

Casey

Lori said...

Now that's funny! LOL Happy Sunday to you and yours. :)

Bill Lisleman said...

good one
what's answerology ?
I guess I could take a look but I afraid I'll be stuck in the site if it is really good.

Jason, as himself said...

Ha! We're all liars.

Cheryl said...

Oh my word!

TALON said...

lol! And here I thought she would be escaping a robot smackdown - lol!

Robert the Skeptic said...

Just when I think I have heard every joke there is, someone comes up with a new one. That was hilarious.

Unknown said...

thanks for the laugh as I decompress here today.

secret agent woman said...

Truth is a dangerous think.

Claudya Martinez said...

I didn't see it coming.

Joanna Jenkins said...

Ha! Love that punch line! I'll be telling that joke again.
Happy Sunday, jj

LL Cool Joe said...

Kinda proving the point tat we all have secrets! Love it! :D

Vinny "Bond" Marini said...

bwahahahahahahahahaha

umm, maybe that was not funny...

oh no it was...bwahahahahahaah

The Urban Cowboy said...

Oh this was so wrong, it was good!

Syd said...

That is a good one.

Marla said...

Holy Robotics!! LOL