A couple more groaners
 
 
 
 Two Ways to Look at Everything
 
  
 
 My wife and I were sitting at a table at my high
school reunion, and I kept staring at a drunken lady
swigging her drink as she sat alone at a nearby table.
My wife asked, "Do you know her?"

"Yes," I sighed. "She's my old girlfriend. I
understand she took to drinking right after we split
up those many years ago, and I hear she hasn't been
sober since."
 
  
"My God!" said my wife. "Who would think a person
 could go on celebrating that long?"

So, you see, there really are two ways to look at
 everything.
 
 WHO INVENTED THE CAR AIR CONDITIONER
 
 
The 3 Goldberg brothers, Norman, Hyman, and Max
 invented and developed the first automobile
air-conditioner. 
On July 17th, 1946, the temperature in Detroit was
97º.

The 3 brothers walked into old man Henry Ford's office
and sweet-talked his secretary into telling him that 3
gentlemen were there with the most
exciting innovation in the auto industry  since the
electric starter.
 
 Henry was curious and invited them into his office.
 They refused and instead asked that he come out to
the parking lot to their car.

They persuaded him to get into the car which was about
130º - turned on the air-conditioner and cooled the
car off immediately. 


The old man got very excited and invited them back
to the office, where he offered them 3 million dollars
for the patent. 

  The brothers refused saying they would settle for 2
 million but they wanted the recognition by having a
label "The Goldberg Air-Conditioner" on the dashboard
of each car that it was installed in.
 
  Now old man Ford was more than just a little bit
Anti-Semitic, and there was no way he was going to put
the Goldbergs name on 2 million Ford cars.

 They haggled back and forth for about 2 hours and 
finally agreed on 4 million dollars and that just
their first names would be shown.

  And so, even today, all Ford air-conditioners show
 on the controls, the names "Norm, Hi, & Max".




       
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