The after dinner speaker was droning on and on and on, bringing everyone to tears.
One of the guests, fighting to keep his drooping eyelids open, turned to the lady on his right and said, “Can nothing be done to shut him up?”
“If there is, I’d like to know, “said the lady, “I’m his wife and I’ve been trying to shut him up for thirty years!”
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