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Are you a construction or carpentry apprentice looking to liven up the workplace? Take these jokes with you to the job site to have a little fun with your co-workers.

Joke #1: The Classic Irish Joke (with a construction twist)

A construction site boss was interviewing men for a job, when along came Murphy. The boss thought I’m not hiring that lazy Irishman, so he decided to set a test for Murphy, hoping he wouldn’t be able to answer the questions, and he’d be able to refuse him the job.

First he asked, “Without using numbers, represent the number 9.” So Murphy says, “Dat’s easy,” and proceeds to draw three tree’s. The boss says, “What the hell’s that?” Murphy says, “Tree ‘n tree n’ tree makes nine.” Fair enough, says the boss.

Second question, same rules, but represent 99. Murphy stares into space for a while, then makes a smudge on each tree. “Der ya go sir,” he says. The boss scratches his head and says, “How on earth do you get that to represent 99. Murphy says, “Each tree’s dirty now! So it’s dirty tree, n’ dirty tree n’ dirty tree, dats 99.”

The boss is getting worried he’s going to have to hire him, so he says, “Alright, question three. Same rules again, but represent the number 100.” Murphy stares into space again, then he shouts, “Got it!” He makes a little mark at the base of each tree, and says, “There ya go sir, 100.”

The boss looks at Murphy’s attempt and thinks “Ha! Got him this time.”

Murphy leans forward and points to the marks at the tree bases, and says, “A little dog comes along and craps by each tree, so now you’ve got, dirty tree an’ a turd, dirty tree an’ a turd, an’ dirty tree an’ a turd, which makes one hundred, when do I start me job?

Joke #2: Defective Nails?

Two carpenters were working on a house. The one who was nailing down siding would reach into his nail pouch, pull out a nail and either toss it over his shoulder or nail it in.

The other, figuring this was worth looking into, asked, “Why are you throwing those nails away?”

The first explained, “If I pull a nail out of my pouch and it’s pointed toward me, I throw it away ’cause it’s defective. If it’s pointed toward the house, then I nail it in!”

The second got completely upset and yelled, “You moron! The nails pointed toward you aren’t defective! They’re for the other side of the house!”

Joke #3: Ear Accident

Two carpenters, Joe and Bill, were working and Joe, up on a scaffold accidently cut off his ear.

He yelled down to Bill…”Hey! look our for my ear I just cut off!”

In a little bit Bill calls up to Joe, ” is this your ear?”

Joe looks down and says “Naw! Mine had a pencil behind it!”

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