More Jokes on Civic Engagement

By popular demand, it is time to return to a few humorous tidbits from the world of community engagement.

Joke One:
Salesman: "This new assessment instrument will cut in half the time it takes for you to do an effective community assets inventory."
Community Activist: "Great, let me have two of them."

Joke Two:
A deeply committed advocate for better housing who spends all of his time trying to improve conditions in a poor neighborhood decides to investigate an abandoned 3-storey building on his own that has possibilities as a future site for low income apartments. He climbs the rickety circular staircase and just as he reaches the final steps leading to the third floor, the stairs suddenly give way and in the nick of time he reaches out for a piece of metal that is solidly embedded in the wall. As he dangles from a great height with nothing but the metal bar to cling to and with the prospect of a 30 foot fall facing him, he calls out desperately for help. A deep voice thunders: "I, the Lord, am here. Let go of that thin piece of metal and I will save you." Still dangling, the man yells back: "Is there anyone else out there?"

Joke Three:
A community activist who is also a rigorous empirical thinker finally agrees to leave the city with a friend to take an auto tour of the countryside. As they pass one particularly picturesque meadow, the friend calls out, "look the sheep have been shorn." The thinker responds blandly: "Yes, on this side anyway."