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A 10 years old boy was at the center of a Philadelphia courtroom in Pennsylvania yesterday .... when he challenged a court ruling over who should have custody of him. The boy has a history of being beaten by his parents and the judge initially awarded custody to his aunt. The boy surprised the court when he proclaimed that his aunt beat him more than his parents and he adamantly refused to live with her. When the judge then suggested that he live with his grandparents

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William Penn, the founder of Philadelphia, had two aunts, who were renowned for their skill as bakers. One day Penn was petitioned by concerned citizens after the four bakeries in Philadelphia had raised the price of pies to the point where only the wealthy could afford to buy them. Not wanting to confront the bakeries, Penn instead approached his aunts, who were so angered by the situation that they offered to bake ten dozen pies themselves and to sell them for five cents less than the bakeries

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Back in the 1940s, two first-time flyers took a plane from New York to Los Angeles. When they made their first stop – at Philadelphia – a red truck arrived to put fuel in the plane. A little while later, they landed in Pittsburgh, and again a red truck pulled up to fill the plane's tanks with fuel. Each time they landed to discharge or take on passengers, a red truck would pull up and add fuel to the tanks. Finally, after landing in Kansas City and seeing the truck pull up again, one passenger s

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