Thursday's Joke of the Day

A man was shopping for something inexpensive in the way of a chess set. He took his buddy along with him for assistance. He went to a shop on the corner of Third Street and Main.

While there, he asked, "What do you have in the way of chess sets?"

The dealer there showed him several. He decided on the cheaper set.

When they got home, the fella took out the set he had bought, and opened and began removing the pieces. However, the bishops, knights, rooks, queen and king were all MISSING!

He looked at his buddy, and said, "Will you look at THIS? EIGHT PIECES are missing! In EACH COLOR!"

The buddy shook his head and said, "You shoulda known you'd never get complete chess sets at a PAWN shop!"

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Bonus Joke:

England's King Edward VII was alarmed when his admirals informed him that Kaiser Wilhelm was embarking on a crash building course to greatly increase the Imperial German Fleet. When he asked how much money would be required to build a dreadnought that would defeat the German Navy, the admiralty informed him, "100 million pounds sterling, your majesty."

"Oh dear me, I'll have to pawn the Star of India, the largest diamond in the world, the front piece on the Crown Royal to pay for this!"

"Dedication, your majesty" was all they could reply.

So the King sent for the Crown Royal and personally dug out the Star of India and took it in the state carriage to a pawnbroker in the East End, where he'd seen such establishments.

"How much will you give me for the Star of India, my good man?"

"Ow, Guv'nuh, Oi t'ink all I kin lend ye would be 100 pounds."

"What? A mere 100 pounds sterling! This is the Star of India, worth 10,000 times that. Do you know who I am?"

The pawnbroker replied, "When you wish to pawn a star, makes no difference who you are."

Once Pawn a Time: By John W. Price from "The Ants Are My Friends" by Richard Lederer & Stan Kegel 2007 Marion Street Press. "When you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are" ("When You Wish upon a Star" by Leigh Harline and Ned Washington, from "Pinocchio")