
Five and half year-old Jennie answered the door when the census taker came by.
When the census taker asked her where her father was, she told him that her daddy was a doctor and wasn’t home because he was working late performing an appendectomy on a patient.
“My, my” the census taker said, “that sure is a big word for such a little girl. Do you know what it means?”
“Oh, sure”, Jennie replied. “Fifteen hundred bucks straight up. Of course, that doesn’t even include the anaesthesiologist!”
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