Longer and Shorter Days - Funny Jokes

I was working in a scrap yard during summer vacation at an engineering university.


I worked repairing construction equipment.


One afternoon, I was taking apart a piling hammer that had some very large bolts holding it together.


One of the nuts had corroded on to the bolt, so to free it I started heating the nut with an oxyacetylene torch.


As I was doing this, one of the dimmest apprentices I have ever known came along.


He asked me what I was doing.


I patiently explained that if I heated the nut, it would grow larger and release its grip on the bolt, so I could then remove it.


“So, things get larger when they get hot, do they?” he asked.


“Yes,” I said. “That’s why days are longer in summer and shorter in winter.”


There was a long pause, then his face cleared.


“You know, I always wondered about that,” he said.