"Italian Christmas" joke
One Christmas, a little Italian boy sits at his desk writing a Christmas list to Jesus. He first writes, "Dear baby Jesus. I have been a good boy mosta of the year so I want a new..." He looks at it, then crumples it up into a ball and throws it away. He gets out a new piece of paper and writes again, "Dear baby Jesus. I have been a good boy for the whole year so I want a new...." He again looks at it with disgust and throws it away. He then gets an idea. He goes into his mother's room, takes a statue of the Virgin Mary, puts it into the closet and locks the door. He takes another piece of paper and writes, "Dear baby Jesus. If you ever want to see your mother again...." Ethnic
Read the Signs "One Christmas, a parent decided that she was no longer going to remind her children of their thank-you note duties. As a result, their grandmother did not receive acknowledgments of the generous checks she had given.
However, things were different the following year.
"The children came over in person to thank me," the grandparent told a friend triumphantly.
"How wonderful!" the friend exclaimed. "What do you think caused the change in their behavior?"
"Oh, that's easy," the grandmother replied. "This year I didn't sign the checks."
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