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Purchasing new brains

A mid-level executive was so frustrated at being passed over for promotion year after year, that, in frustration, he went to a brain-transplant center in the hope of raising his I. Q. 20 points.

After a battery of physical and psychological tests, he was told by the center’s director that he was an acceptable candidate.

«That’s great!» the executive said. «But I understand that this procedure can be really expensive.»

«Yes, sir, it can,» the director replied. «An ounce of accountant’s brain for example, costs one thousand dollars; an ounce of an economist’s brain costs two thousand; an ounce of a corporate president’s is forty-five thousand. An ounce of a Democrat’s brain is seventy-five thousand dollars.»

«Seventy-five thousand dollars for an ounce of a Democrat’s brain? Why on earth is that?»

«Do you have any idea,» the director asked, «how many Democrats we would have to kill?»



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