A local bar was so sure that its bartender was the strongest man around, they
offered a standing $1,000 bet.
The bartender would squeeze
a lemon until all the juice ran into a glass, and hand the lemon to a patron.
Anyone who could
squeeze one more drop of juice out would win the money.
Many people tried, but nobody could do it.
One day a scrawny little
man wearing thick glasses and a polyester suit came in and in a tiny, squeaky
voice, "I'd like to try
the bet."
After the laughter had
died down, the bartender said okay, grabbed a lemon, and squeezed away. Then
he handed the wrinkled
remains of the rind to the little man. The crowd's laughter turned to total
silence as the man clenched his fist around the
lemon and six drops fell into the glass.
As the crowd cheered, the
bartender paid the $1,000, and asked the man, "What do you do for a living?
Are you a lumberjack, a
weightlifter, or what?"
The man replied, "I
work for the IRS."
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