The board room of employees sat quietly, most taking notes, as their boss went over the budget and company earnings in laborious detail.
“So clearly, you can see the market utility of that sector of production isn’t going to balance the tradeoff, and,” the boss suddenly broke off, “—Johnson, what’s funny?”
The table of businessmen and women turned to Johnson, who had just briefly chuckled to himself.
“Oh, I’m sorry,” Johnson said quickly, wanting his boss to forget about it and resume the presentation.
“No, go ahead, what is it. Why were you laughing?” the boss continued in a serious voice.
All eyes were fixed on Johnson.
“Well,” Johnson began nervously, “it’s just some joke I was thinking about.” He looked around, but no one said anything, and clearly his boss was expecting him to go on. “So there’s a guy named Josephus and then there’s someone else who’s just met him who asks, ‘Oh, so were you named after the historian?’ and Josephus responds, ‘Well of course I was named after him—he was born almost 2000 years ago!’” Johnson swallowed noticeably. “And that’s it.”
The room was silent.
“Did you think of that?” the boss asked firmly.
“Yes,” Johnson replied, fidgeting a little, “I did.”
A long period of silence elapsed. Finally the boss stated, “That’s funny,” while nodding his head in approval. “Millstone, what do you think? Do you think that’s funny?” he asked, turning to another employee.
“Yes, I think that’s funny,” the employee responded affirmatively.
“I think it’s funny as well,” another employee concurred.
“Good,” the boss announced, “so does everyone think it’s funny?”
The room broke into a quietly mumbling sea of agreement and head nodding.
“Good work, Johnson, everyone agrees that the joke is funny,” the boss concluded, “Make sure to write that down somewhere.” The meeting then continued on.
Comments (5)
This is so random.
Funny though. Just random.
You haven’t posted in a while, as far as I remember. I thought you defriended me. heh.
I believe I have been lost… 0.0 You’ll have to explain the deeper meaning behind this one too me. xD
@flowerspushthrudirt -
Oh no, I don’t defriend anybody. My sister on facebook is terrible like that; always cleansing her friend list for people she doesn’t like or whatever. I think that’s crazy.
I didn’t say so there but I read and appreciated your recent testimony on the life of a disciple. Honest and good – thanks for sharing.
@Yume_Shii -
*Sigh*. Explanation: this one got away. A funny thought occurred to me (which I laughed at to myself, like Johnson), I just couldn’t get it down. The thought was a business meeting where everyone agrees a joke is funny while no one laughs. The way I pictured it was great – it was absurd, just the sort of idea that tickles me. It just didn’t come out in this dialogue. I knew it was confusing, I kind of posted it out of despair.
@StrokeofThought - :) Thanks, it’s good to hear.
Lol, very funny.