Butch Renfroe

The symphony orchestra was performing Beethoven’s Ninth. In the piece, there’s a long passage, about 20 minutes, during which the bass violinists have nothing to do. Rather than sit around that whole time looking stupid, some bassists decided to sneak offstage and go to the tavern next door for a quick one. After slamming several beers in quick succession, one of them looked at his watch and said, “Hey! We need to get back!”

“No need to panic,” said a fellow bassist. “I thought we might need some extra time, so I tied the last few pages of the conductor’s score together with string. It’ll take him a few minutes to get it untangled.”

A few moments later they staggered back to the concert hall and took their places in the orchestra. About this time, a member of the audience noticed the conductor seemed a bit edgy and said as much to her companion.

“Well, of course,” said her companion. “Don’t you see? It’s the bottom of the Ninth, the score is tied, and the bassists are loaded.”

Bob and Edna were two vultures who were going on vacation.

They were very excited about flying on a plane since the distance was too far to fly themselves.

Because they heard about how bad airline food was, the two vultures boarded an airplane, each carrying two dead raccoons for a snack.

The stewardess looks at them and says, “I’m sorry,  only one carrion allowed per passenger.”

A woman has twins, and gives them up for adoption.

One of them goes to a family in Egypt, and is named “Ahmal.”

The other goes to a family in Spain ; they name him “Juan.”

Years later, Juan sends a picture of himself to his birth mother.

Upon receiving the picture, she tells her husband that she wishes she also had a picture of Ahmal.

Her husband responds, “They’re twins! If you’ve seen Juan, you’ve seen Ahmal.”