Category: Nouveau Riche

 WORTHLESS TRASH

The nouveau riche came into the antiquary and looked through some of the books. After a while he spoke up:

“Don’t you have anything new?”

“No sir, we deal in antique books.”

“I didn’t realize that these old books still have a market. Once I found an old bible in our attic. It was written in those funny-looking German letters and published by somebody named Got… Guten…”   

The antiquarian blanched and started trembling: “Maybe Gutenberg?”

“Yea, how did you guess? Still, it looked very old and was torn in several places, so I just chucked it out.”

“Oh my God! That must have been one of the first books ever published. It was worth a fortune.”

“I doubt it. On most of the pages there was some scribbling by a guy who called himself Martin Luther.”

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