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A Massachusetts man who bought a desk for $40 at an auction said a search for a missing knob turned up at least $127,000 worth of bonds.
Phillip LeClerc, 60, of Weymouth, said he bought the desk for $40 on Nov. 19 at a Kelley Auctions sale and he went searching through the desk's many compartments when a knob came loose from a small drawer and fell off. LeClerc said he discovered the first envelope poking out from a small gap beneath a drawer and he soon had a stack of bonds that matured in 1992 and have since accumulated interest. He estimated the stack of bonds is worth a total of at least $127,000. LeClerc contacted Marge Kelley, president of the auction company. Kelley said the bonds were returned to a man who said the money will go toward caring for his 94-year-old father. "I've been doing this for 10 years and every day the stories get stranger and better and [more] fabulous," Kelley told the Boston Globe. "The gentleman whose family the bonds belong to, he can't even believe it. He said, 'I'm over the moon.'"

-- UPI


Jokes

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A guy walked into a crowed bar, waving his 1911 Colt .45 caliber pistol with an 8 shot clip, and yelled, "I want to know who's been playing around with my wife!"

A voice from the back of the room called out, "You're gonna need more ammo!"

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I work in a computer support center for a large auto-parts distributor.
When I came back from lunch one day, I had a message to call a customer named Bubba at a parts store in Texas. A man answered, "Auto Parts.
This is Dave."

"May I speak to Bubba?" I asked.

"That's me," he replied. "Dave's my nickname."

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When the man came home, his wife was crying. "Your mother insulted me,"
she sobbed.

"My mother? How could she do that when she is on vacation on the other side of the world?" the man asked.

"I know. But this morning a letter addressed to you arrived. I opened it because I was curious."

"And?"

"At the end of the letter she had written:

P.S. Dear Diane, when you have finished reading this letter, don't
forget to give it to my son."

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Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.