Elliott, a Mayor from a small town paid a visit to his old friend, Lance, who had become a reputable Mayor in Lancashire.
“Wow, what is the secret of your success?”, asked Mr. Elliott, amazed at his friend’s grand house, complete with maids and a sour looking butler.
Pointing out to the window that revealed a view of the town’s half constructed bridge, and said, “You see that bridge?”
“Yeah, what about it?”
His friend smiled, then meaningfully answered, “20 percents.”
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Six months later, Mayor Lance received a letter inviting him to Elliott’s house for a dinner.
Intrigued, he visited his friend and was beyond shock to find a Porsche parked over a house even more luxurious than his.
During dinner, Lance couldn’t keep his curiosity any longer and asked, “So, pray tell, my friend, how do you manage to get this much wealth?”
Elliott put down his napkin and pointing over to the window overlooking an empty barren land, he asked, “You see that bridge?”
“What bridge?”, Lance answered, confused as ever.
Elliott smiled. He said, “100 percents.”
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I love this joke. Never gets old 
March 6th, 2008 at 11:20 am
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Tom Humes
March 7th, 2008 at 3:42 am
Politicians way to get rich.
March 7th, 2008 at 4:02 am
The really good jokes never get old.;)
March 7th, 2008 at 8:18 am
uh. i don’t get it.
March 9th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Tom Humes. HI! Are you some sort of Desmond Humes’ alter ego, lol.
Cookie, so true. This is the kind of things that happens in Indonesia in daily basis. You get the position of power after sacrificing money and connection, and you’ll just end up abusing the power too.
Badtz, I love telling obviously funny jokes and anecdotes XD
avatarded, basically Lance got his wealth by taking 20% of the money supposed to build the town’s bridge. Elliott used this method and eventually got rich. But instead of just 20%, he took all of the money hence you can see no bridge was being built in his town. That’s it in a nutshell. I had to translate it from Indonesian, and I’m a yucky translator XD Sorry for the confusion!
March 10th, 2008 at 7:44 am
Haahahahahahaha. It made me laugh so hard i almost cried!
But yeah, that’s how things work in the world of politics. So sad…
So when I run for presidency, I suggest you support me people! I WILL make the world a better place! (Then ill get myself a nice Jaguar)
LOLOLOLOLOL!
j/k. That’s why i hate politics although i love being in touch with the news.
March 16th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Maybe this a joke taken from a real story about two politicians from the Philippines. haha!
March 20th, 2008 at 8:31 am
WHJ, you’ll need to be extra creative to be a good politician. Get the Jaguar and other stuffs first, and only then, let others worry about the world XD
J/K but in Indonesia, recently the airport just bought the new body scanner for almost twice the US price.
Denise, I heard about that too. I’m really sorry. I think Indonesian government gives the bad influence