The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for February 18, 2024

You just bought a U-Haul franchise?

Enunciation is a must in that game!!!

“Hello dolly well hello dolly!

If they were the Parton kind, it might be fun.

Apparently he found not only the only hard of hearing genie, but one without a sense of logic.

Well Parton me.

1 Million Dollys is actually worth more than 1 million dollars! Of course, it’ll be a pain selling all of them.

And the wish that got him a miniature piano player was even more disappointing.

Sell them half price and you’ll have a lot more money

I suppose there is somewhere in the world where those are called dollys but around here they’re called hand trucks.

Must have been your accent!

Better than a million ducks!

And why wish for just a MILLION?! Go “Trump” and ask for ZILLIONS!

I’m just glad he didn’t say a Dali Lama

Sell them for half of the going market. Undercut the big guy and get your cash…..

Very moving.

So you can sell them?

He could have ended up with a million Barbies.

“I want a refund, and I want it in cash”!

Apparently that wish didn’t move him.

You may have heard this one: A ninety year old man married to an 89 year old woman is granted one wish. The man selfishly asks that he be married to woman twenty years younger than him. Do I really need to add the punchline?

Anyone remember the Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck cartoon when they competed on a game show to win the million “box?”

Seems Genies hearing is going….LOL

How many wishes left?

Sell them at a profit and you’ll end up richer than what the genie gave you.

The same genie responsible for that other guy’s foot tall piano player.

Note to self: have genie’s hearing checked before making a wish.

Kinda like on wheel of fortune…you don’t enunciate precisely, you lose!

Even a cheap dolly still costs 20$. Assuming he’’ resell these dollies at half price, and assuming he can get rid of 50% of his stock then that’s still 5 million worth

Well, since the Genie was trapped for thousands of years, he may not know what a dollar is.

Those are handcarts or handtrucks. A dolly is traditionally a flat platform on wheels—but the misuse is common enough that the joke still works.

It could have been a million guys painting melted watches.

HE TRIED HIS BEST, darn it!

Coulda been doilies…

♪ He’s about a mover. ♪

Gladly they’re not those darned slippery doilies my grandmoms had in the 1950s.

could probably get more than $1 a piece for his dollies and get more than 1 million dollars

I’ll have no truck with genies like that.

Being trapped in a lamp for hundreds of years obviously causes hearing impairment.

Jock was walking on his favorite beach in Queensland when he spotted some shiny metal sticking up out of the sand. On inspection, it turned out to be an old oil lamp. He picked it up and brushed it off, and in doing so he released the genie who’d been trapped inside.

“Hi, there”, said the genie. “I’m an ancient genie who’s been trapped for way too long in that tiny little lamp, and I want to thank you properly for freeing me. May I grant you a wish?”

“Um, isn’t that supposed to be THREE wishes?”, asked Jock.

“Come on, dude, don’t be greedy. I was just an apprentice genie in the first place. That’s how they trapped me so easily in this crummy little lamp. Smash the crap out it if you would, by the way. God, I hate that thing! Anyway, all I’ve got in me is one wish. What’ll it be?”

Jock paused a bit in thot. “Well”, he finally said, “I’ve always gotten on real well with me mate Bob. He’s m’brother, y’know, but he up and took off for America nearly a decade ago and now he lives near Hollywood. Wanted to break into acting and all, but it hasn’t been going well and he can’t afford to fly back and visit. I myself am terrified of flying, so I guess what I’d like most is a big long highway from here in Brisbane up to Los Angeles so I can drive my Holden up there to surprise him.”

“Are you deaf, man? Didn’t you hear me say that I was only an APPRENTICE genie? Do you know how much work a highway all the way across the Pacific Ocean would involve? It would be a challenge for the greatest genies of all time! Now get real and ask me for something reasonable.”

“Oh, OK. Sorry. Umm, how about if you can let me understand women?”

“So, would that be a 4-lane or 6-lane?”

Genie’s got a hearing problem!

A million doll hairs would be much easier to store.

At least they weren’t cloned sheep.

I’m sure he meant Baby Dollys or perhaps Dolly Partons

Dolly will never go away again…

good thing he didn’t wish for a million bucks…

um… DOLLIES?

Well, wishing for a million dollars would be silly these days

He wanted a million doilies.

Sell ’em for 10 bucks apiece…

Wish it in writing and send it to mywishes at 3wishgenie dot com.

It could have been worse. The Djinn could have buried the guy in one million Zimbabwe $1 notes, which were worthless due to extreme inflation. The Zimbabwe dollar became so inflated that they were printing 100 trillion notes before they finally gave up and just used foreign currency since 2008.