Dan Sorkin

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Please send me your favorite joke. The first one to send it, not only gets the credit, but a good bottle of wine or a box of chocolates (the winner’s choice).

Winner for August 2003

Winner of Joke of the Month for August
Dan Sorkin
Rossmoor, California
"Porsche"

Dan Sorkin

Winner of the Joke

of the Month

for August

Porsche

A fifteen year-old boy came home with a Porsche and

his parents shouted, "Where did you

get that car???!!!"

He calmly told them, "I bought it today."

"With what money?" demanded his parents. "We know

what a Porsche costs."

"Well," said the boy, "this one cost me fifteen dollars."

So the parents demanded, "Who would

sell a car like that for fifteen dollars?" they said.

"It was the lady up the street," said the boy." I don't

know her name--they just moved in. She saw me ride

past on my bike and asked me if I wanted to buy a

Porsche for fifteen dollars."

"Dear God," moaned the mother, "she must be a child

molester. Who knows what she will do next? John, you go

right up there and see what's going on."

The boy's father walked up the street to the house

where the lady lived and found her out in the yard

calmly planting petunias! He introduced himself as the

father of the boy to whom she had sold a Porsche for

fifteen dollars and wanted to know why she did it.

"Well," she said, "this morning I got a phone call from

my husband. I thought he was on a business trip, but it

seems he has run off to Hawaii with his secretary and

doesn't intend to come back. He asked me to sell his

new Porsche and send him the money. So I did.

-- congratulations, Dan!!!!

This is the sixth time in almost six years that Dan has won. At seventy-six, he is still going strong. His award, $100 to his organization Stumps R Us.

To learn more, hopefully you may be also abel to contribute, please go to learn more about Dan's and the organization he got started ( formerly a famous disc jockey in Chicago and then in San Francisco, he went on to become the pilot for the Synanon Foundation, but then its best to read in his own words : http://www.stumps.org/contacts.html

Dan Sorkin
2109 Skycrest Drive #1
Walnut Creek, CA 94595-1828

Current year Joke of the Month winners

July
Dan Sorkin,
Walnut Creek, California
"Sherlock Holmes"

June
Bob Teichman
Sausalito, California
(His prize: two .375ml 1995 Duckhorn
Merlot, Mt. Howell)

May
Connie Krehbiel
Vallejo, California
"Lady Goes to the Druggist"
Her prize, "Godiva Signature Ballotin 2 pound"
(67 pieces of chocolate)

April
Jerry Estruth,
San Jose, California

March
Walter J. Lunny, III
San Francisco, California
"Lars and Eric"
His prize," some "Johnson" t-shirts from www.coolrags.com

February
Jeffrey H. Reynolds, Ph.D.
Bethesda, Maryland
"Dachshund in Africa"
Prize a bottle of 1996 Rombauer Napa Valley Merlot.

January
Connie Kreibel
Vallejo, California
She wins a two pound box of
Schurra's European Chocolate
from Schurra's Candy Factory,
San Jose, California