A puzzle

    A group of blondes walk into a bar. One of the women tells the bartender to line up a row of drinks for all of them.

    The gals lift their glasses and toast, “Here’s to 51 days!” and they proceed to down their drinks. Once again, they tell the bartender to “line ’em up,” and once again they toast 51 days and down their drinks.

    The bartender says, “I don’t get it. Why in the world are you toasting 51 days?”

    One of the blondes explains, “We just finished a jigsaw puzzle. It had written on the box ‘2-4 years,’ but we finished it in 51 days!”

    High in the sky

    The scene is a newspaper office. The editor says to one of his reporters, “There’s a fire raging out of control west of town and I want you to get out there fast. And above all, get some good shots. If that means you have to hire an airplane, just do it. Don’t worry about the expense.”

    So, the reporter calls the airport and orders a plane. He rushes out to the airport, spots a small aircraft with a young pilot in it, pulls open the door, jumps in and says to the pilot, “Let’s go, take off.”

    As directed, the pilot takes off, gets up to altitude, and the reporter then tells him, “See that fire raging to the west? I want you to fly over that and get down as close as you can.”

    Incredulous, the pilot says, “You want me to fly over that fire?”

    “Sure,” the reporter says, “I am a photojournalist and that’s why I am here — to take dramatic shots of the fire!”

    The pilot looks over with a quizzical look on his face and says, “You’re not the flight instructor?”