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Abie, a rather shy and retiring gentleman who lives southwest, sent this one
about an Irish millionaire...

Mick, from Dublin, appeared on Who Wants To Be a Millionaire and toward the
end of the program had already won 500,000 pounds.

"You've done very well so far," said Chris Tarrant, the show's presenter, "but for
a million pounds, you've only got one life-line left, phone a friend. Everything
is riding on this question. Will you go for it?"

"Sure," said Mick. "I'll have a go!"

"Which of the following birds does NOT build its own nest?
a) Sparrow, b) Thrush, c) Magpie, or d) Cuckoo?"

"I haven't got a clue." said Mick, ''So I'll use me last lifeline and phone me
friend Paddy back home in Dublin."

Mick called up his mate Paddy, and told him the circumstances and repeated
the question to him.

"Fookin’ hell, Mick!" cried Paddy. "Dat's simple! it's a cuckoo."

"Are ye sure?"

"I’m fookin’ sure."

Mick hung up the phone and told Chris, "I'll go with cuckoo as me answer."

"Is that your final answer?" asked Chris.

"Dat 'tis."

There was a long, long pause and then the presenter screamed, "Cuckoo is
the correct answer! Mick, you've won 1 million pounds!"

The next night, Mick invited Paddy to their local pub to buy him a drink.

"Tell me, Paddy? How in Heaven's name did ye know it was da Cuckoo that
doesn't build its own nest?"

"Because he lives in a fookin’ clock!"
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