An Irishman, a Scotsman and an Englishman were fishing from a cliff, when one of them hauled up an old bottle on the end of his line.
When he pulled it of the line, he gave it a quick wipe and suddenly a genie appeared in a swirling cloud of blue smoke.
“Thank you for releasing me from this ancient curse,” he boomed. “I will grant you one wish each. Leap from the top of this cliff, call out the name of whatever you desire and you will land safely in a boat at the bottom, in a boutiful pile of that which you named.”
And with that, he vanished in another puff of blue smoke.
The Englishman thought for awhile and then lept of the cliff shouting, “GOLD!”
To his relief, he landed safely in a dinghy which was brimming with gold sovereigns.
“DIAMONDS!” shouted the Scotsman, flinging himself of the cliff. He too landed safely, in a glittering boat loaded with diamonds.
And the Irishman?
Well, he just didn’t think. The exitement was just too much for him: as he jumped of the cliff he yelled, “WHEE!”