Two men were drinking in a bar at the top of the Empire
State Building.
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> > >One turns to the other and says, "You
know, last week I discovered
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> > >that if you jump from the top of this
building, by the time you fall
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> > >to the 10th floor, the winds around
the building are so intense that they
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> > >carry you around the building and back
into the window."
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> > >The bartender overhears this and just
shakes his head in
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> > >disapproval while wiping down the bar.
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> > >The second man says, "What, are you
a nut? There is no way in hell
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> > >that could happen!"
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> > >The first man says, "No, it's true.
Let me prove it to you." He
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> > >gets up from the bar, jumps over the
balcony, and careens toward the
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> > >street below. When he passes the 10th
floor, the high wind whips him
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> > >around the building and back into the
10th floor window, where he takes
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> >the
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> > >elevator back up to the bar.
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> > >The second man says, "You know, I saw
that with my own eyes, but
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> > >that must have been a one-time fluke."
The first man says, "No, it
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>isn't.
> > >I'll prove it again!" And again he jumps
and hurtles toward the street,
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> > >when
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> > >the 10th floor wind gently carries him
around the building and into the
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> > >window.
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> > >Once upstairs he urges his fellow drinker
to try it.
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> > >The second man says, "Well, what the
hell, it works, I'll try it."
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> > >He jumps over the balcony, plunges downward,
and passes
> > >the...11th...10th...9th...8th...7th...6th...5th...4th...3rd...2nd...1st.
> > >And hits the sidewalk with a splat.
> > >Back upstairs, the bartender turns to
the other drinker and says,
> > >" You know, Superman, you're a
real asshole when you're drunk."