{"id":249,"date":"2008-08-14T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/?p=249"},"modified":"2008-08-14T17:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T17:01:00","slug":"grandpa-vs-the-irs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/grandpa-vs-the-irs\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandpa vs. the IRS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The IRS decides to audit Grandpa, and summons him to the IRS office.<\/p>\n<p>The IRS auditor was not surprised when Grandpa showed up with his attorney.<\/p>\n<p>The auditor said, &#8216;Well, sir, you have an extravagant lifestyle and no full-time employment, Which you explain by saying that you win money gambling. I&#8217;m not sure the IRS finds that believable.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a great gambler, and I can prove it,&#8217; says Grandpa. &#8216;How about a demonstration?&#8217;<br \/>The auditor thinks for a moment and said, &#8216;Okay. Go ahead.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Grandpa says, &#8216;I&#8217;ll bet you a thousand dollars that I can bite my own eye.&#8217;<br \/>The auditor thinks a moment and says, &#8216;It&#8217;s a bet.&#8217;<br \/>Grandpa removes his glass eye and bites it.<br \/>The auditor&#8217;s jaw drops.<\/p>\n<p>Grandpa says, &#8216;Now, I&#8217;ll bet you two thousand dollars that I can bite my other eye.&#8217;<br \/>Now the auditor can tell Grandpa isn&#8217;t blind, so he takes the bet.<\/p>\n<p>Grandpa removes his dentures and bites his good eye.<br \/>The stunned auditor now realizes he has wagered and lost three grand, with Grandpa&#8217;s attorney as a witness. He starts to get nervous.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Want to go double or nothing?&#8217; Grandpa asks &#8216;I&#8217;ll bet you six thousand dollars that I can stand on one side of your desk, and pee into that wastebasket on the other side, and never get a drop anywhere in between.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The auditor, twice burned, is cautious now, but he looks carefully and decides there&#8217;s no way this old guy could possibly manage that stunt, so he agrees again.<\/p>\n<p>Grandpa stands beside the desk and unzips his pants, but although he strains mightily, he can&#8217;t make the stream reach the wastebasket on the other side, so he pretty much urinates all over the auditor&#8217;s desk.<\/p>\n<p>The auditor leaps with joy, realizing that he has just turned a major loss into a huge win.<br \/>But Grandpa&#8217;s attorney moans and puts his head in his hands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Are you okay?&#8217; the auditor asks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Not really,&#8217; says the attorney. &#8216;This morning, when Grandpa told me he&#8217;d been summoned for an audit, he bet me twenty-five thousand dollars that he could come in here and pee all over your desk and that you&#8217;d be happy about it.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><em>[thanks for my good friend Mike for this one]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.offthemark.com\/search-results\/key\/medieval\/\">Here are some cartoons that are freakin&#8217; hilarious.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IRS decides to audit Grandpa, and summons him to the IRS office. The IRS auditor was not surprised when Grandpa showed up with his attorney. The auditor said, &#8216;Well, sir, you have an extravagant lifestyle and no full-time employment, Which you explain by saying that you win money gambling. I&#8217;m not sure the IRS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}