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Confusing The Border Guards

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  1. Confusing The Border Guards While crossing the US-Mexican border on his bicycle, the man was
    stopped by a guard who pointed to two sacks the man had on his shoulders. "What's in the bags?",
    asked the guard.

    "Sand," said the cyclist.

    "Get them off - we'll take a look," said the guard.

    The Cyclist did as he was told, emptied the bags, and proving they contained nothing but sand,
    reloaded the bags, put them on his shoulders and continued across the border.

    Two weeks later, the same thing happened. Again the guard demanded to see the two bags, which again
    contained nothing but sand. This went on every week for six months, until one day the cyclist with
    the sand bags failed to appear.

    A few days later, the guard happened to meet the cyclist downtown. "Say friend, you sure had us
    crazy", said the guard. "We knew you were smuggling something across the border. I won't say a word
    - but what is it you were smuggling?"

    "Bicycles!"

  2. Quoted message said:

    Confusing The Border Guards While crossing the US-Mexican border on his bicycle, the man
    was stopped


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    a guard who pointed to two sacks the man had on his shoulders. "What's in the bags?", asked
    the guard.

    This joke has had a long life as a man smuggling wheelbarrows across the border...

    Pat in TX

  3. "Pat" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:


    Quoted message said:

    Confusing The Border Guards While crossing the US-Mexican border on his bicycle, the man was
    stopped


    by

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    a guard who pointed to two sacks the man had on his shoulders. "What's


    in

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    the bags?", asked the guard.

    This joke has had a long life as a man smuggling wheelbarrows across the border...

    I first heard it from a mullah, who told it about camels, which makes me think it has an even longer
    history than the invention of the wheelbarrow.

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  4. Pat said:


    Quoted message said:

    Confusing The Border Guards While crossing the US-Mexican border on his bicycle, the man was
    stopped


    by

    Quoted message said:

    a guard who pointed to two sacks the man had on his shoulders. "What's in the bags?", asked
    the guard.

    This joke has had a long life as a man smuggling wheelbarrows across the border...

    The first version I recall was a man stealing wheelbarrows from the construction site where he
    worked. But the bicycle is a nice variation.

    --
    Ray Heindl (remove the Xs to reply)

  5. On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 20:47:55 -0000, Ray Heindl <[email hidden]>

    may have said:
    Pat said:


    Quoted message said:

    Confusing The Border Guards While crossing the US-Mexican border on his bicycle, the man was
    stopped


    by

    Quoted message said:

    a guard who pointed to two sacks the man had on his shoulders. "What's in the bags?", asked the
    guard.

    This joke has had a long life as a man smuggling wheelbarrows across the border...

    The first version I recall was a man stealing wheelbarrows from the construction site where he
    worked. But the bicycle is a nice variation.

    I believe an early version involving baskets of asses' dung being carried from the Pharoah's stables
    was identified in hieroglyphics at Memphis.

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