>
> Doug Smith is on his deathbed and knows
> the end is near. His
> nurse, his wife, his daughter and two sons are with him.
>
> So, he says to them:
>
> "Bernie, I want you to take the Mayfair houses."
>
> "Sybil, you take the apartments over in the east
> end."
>
> "Jamie, I want you to take the offices over in the City
> Centre."
>
> "Sarah, my dear wife, please take all the residential
> buildings on
> the banks of the river."
>
> The nurse is just blown away by all this, and as Doug slips
> away,
> she says, "Mrs. Smith, your husband must have been such
> a hard-working
> man to have accumulated all this property".
>
> Sarah replies, "Property? .... the idiot had a paper
> route!"
>
>
>