| | Personally, I think the Objectivist reference could have stood a little reinforcing in the body of the joke itself. Here is an example of what I mean -- a little-kid-cussing joke I redid along Atlas Shrugged character lines and posted in the Banter folder. (Actually, it probably belongs here, instead.) You might call it "Atlas Shrugs at the Construction Site." Cheers, REB
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John and Dagny and their 5-year-old daughter, Alissa, moved into a house next door to a vacant lot. One day a construction crew turned up to start building a house on the empty lot. Little Alissa naturally took an interest in all the activity going on next door and spent much of each day observing the workers.
Eventually the construction crew, all of them gems-in-the-rough, more or less adopted her as a kind of project mascot. They chatted with her, let her sit with them while they had coffee and lunch breaks, and gave her little jobs to do here and there to make her feel important.
At the end of the first week they even presented her with a pay envelope containing a couple of dollars. Little Alissa took this home to her mother, Dagny, who said all the appropriate words of admiration and suggested that they take the two dollar "pay" she had received to the bank the next day to start a savings account.
When they got to the bank, its owner, a Mr. Mulligan, was equally impressed and asked Alissa how she had come by her very own pay check at such a young age. The little girl proudly replied, "I worked last week with the crew building the house next door to us."
My goodness gracious," said Mulligan, "and will you be working on the house again this week, too?"
Alissa replied, "I will if those useless assholes at Home Depot ever deliver the goddamn sheet rock..."
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