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>>(*) Three academy classmates have lunch. Few drinks after the dessert, one asks the other two: "How come I'm still a captain, and you guys are colonels?". "You are a tin ear. And I can prove it" says one, picks up a boiled egg, puts it to his ear and says, "wow, Chopin!". Gives it to the other colonel, who puts the egg to his ear and says "Amazing - you can really hear Chopin from this" and passes the egg to the major. Mayor puts it to his ear and says "I don't hear a thing."
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>>"That's why you're still a major, tin ear."
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>Those three guys were drunk or perhaps one was drunk (captain) and the other two sober (colonels) but respectful of what the captain said. Or was that Mayor or Major? Well, whatever. By the way, was he a captain, major or mayor? Was there a fourth guy who was a mayor or even a fifth guy who was a Major? :)
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>After that story I think that I need a drink! :)

Have you read "Catch-22"? There is a character named Major Major.