A man walks
into a bar with a duck and a biscuit box. He sets the
duck on top
of the biscuit box on the bar and the duck begins
dancing. The
barman finds this rather interesting as do the rest
of the punters
in the pub. They all come round the duck and watch
it for ages,
and while doing so, buy more and more drink. By the
end of the night
the bar is full of people watching this amazing
duck, still
dancing and giving the odd quack now and again. The
barman realizes
that he hasn't had business this good in a long
time. It is
so good that he offers to buy the duck from the man
to which the
man agrees to sell for 500 pounds. The barman thinks
it is a bit
expensive but agrees to buy it anyhow. On selling the
duck, the man
goes home leaving a crowded pub watching his
dancing duck.
Later that night,
the man gets a telephone call; it is the barman
and he exclaims
that the duck is a great success and that he has
his money back
in the amount of drink he has sold, but he says -
"There is one
thing... How do you get the duck to stop dancing?"
to which the
man replies -- "Oh simple - just take the lid of the
biscuit box
and blow out the candle."