LAUGHTER THE BEST Medicine
Reader's Digest US|February 2023
A proud lion spots a chimp and roars, "Who is the king of the jungle?"
LAUGHTER THE BEST Medicine

"You are, mighty lion!" says the trembling chimp.

Next, the lion stops a zebra: "Who is the king of the jungle?"

"Y-y-you are!" stammers the zebra.

Feeling cocky, the lion swaggers up to an elephant and demands, "Who is the king of the jungle?"

The unfazed elephant snatches up the lion with its trunk, slams him against a tree a dozen times, then stomps off. The dazed lion shouts, "Just because you don't know the answer doesn't mean you have to get nasty about it." -Submitted by JOE SEBASTIAN Wilkes-Barre, PA

Corporations spend years building up a product's brand. Jimmy Fallon invited viewers of the Tonight Show to ruin all that work by simply adding one word to the product's name:

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