"The clock has arrived" joke
There was an expectant father who had spent quite
some time waiting for the offspring to arrive - at his in-laws place. As his leave balance had gone into the red, he tell his f-i-law when my son comes, do not call up in office and tell that I have become a father of a boy, etc. otherwise I'll have to shell out a lot for parties etc. Tell me that the clock has arrived. The offspring does arrive one day, but it's a daughter. The f-i-l now
thinks - if I tell him that the clock has not arrived, he'll misunderstand that some thing has happened to the baby and come rushing over. So he sends the message - " The clock has arrived, but the pendulum is missing".
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