The FIAT 500 introduced in the 50s was a tiny, tinny car with a small 500cc two-cylinders engine, but it was really inexpensive and gave wheels to millions on Italians, especially young ones as you could buy it on instalments of $34 a month.

So, one sunny Spring day, as a 20-year old, I was driving in the country with my girlfriend in my FIAT 500. The beauty of the scenery must have inspired Maria because she asked me to stop the car, then she got out of that cramped environment, stripped naked, laid on her back on the lush grass, and waited.

And waited. And waited... Finally she shouted, "Maurizio, if you don't come out of the car, I won't be in the mood much longer!"

To which, I had only this to say: "Maria, if I don't get out of the mood, I won't get out of this car!"

A hunter and his friend were sitting in a tall tower stand along Highway 64 near Sturgeon Falls Ontario early one cold December morning. Suddenly, a huge buck walked out over the corn they had spread in the low shrubs, the buck was magnificent..... a once in a lifetime animal. His rack was huge.

The hunter's hand shook as his mind was already counting the Boone and Crockett points. Moving quickly, the hunter carefully aimed the Leopold scope on his .300 Winchester Mag at the unsuspecting buck. As he was about to squeeze the trigger on this deer of a life time, his friend alerted him to a funeral procession passing slowly down Highway 64.

The hunter pulled away from the gunstock, set the rifle down, took off his hat, bowed his head and then closed his eyes in prayer. His friend was stunned.

"Wow, that is the most thoughtful and touching thing I have ever seen you do. You actually let that trophy deer go to pay respects to a passing funeral procession. You are indeed the kindest man I have ever known, and I feel lucky to call you a friend."

The hunter shrugged. "Yeah, well, we were married for 37 years."

A new blood test can detect brain damage in amateur boxers. The old method was to see who signed a contract with Don King.

Jim Barach http://jokesbyjim.blogspot.com/