Ole in Minnesota

 THAT OLE IS REALLY SOMETHING!

  Ole knows everybody. Ole was bragging to his boss one
day, “You know,
I know everyone der is to know. Just name someone,
anyone, and I know
them.”

Tired of his boasting, his boss
called his bluff, “OK, Ole how about
Tom Cruise?”

 ”Sure, yes,
Tom and I ver old friends, and I can prove it.”

Ole and his boss
fly out to Hollywood and knock on Tom Cruise’s door,
and sure enough, Tom
Cruise, shouts, “Ole! Great to see you!

You and your friend come
right in and join me for lunch!”

 Although impressed, Ole’s boss
is still skeptical. After they leave
Cruise’s house, he tells Ole that he
thinks Ole’s knowing Cruise was
just lucky.

 ”No, no, just name
anyvon else,” Ole says. ”President Obama,” his
boss quickly
retorts.

 ”Ya sure,” Ole says, “I know him.”

We’ll fly
out to Washington to see him.”

Off they go. At the White House,
Obama spots Ole on the tour and
motions him and his boss over, saying,
“Ole, what a surprise, I was
just on my way to a meeting, but you and
your friend come on in and
let’s have a cup of coffee first and catch
up.”

The boss is shaken now, but still not totally convinced.
After they
leave the White House grounds, he expresses his doubts to Ole,
who
again implores him to name anyone else. “The Pope,” his boss
replies

“Sure!” says Ole. “I’ve known the Pope a long
time.”

The unconvinced boss flies them off to Rome. Ole and his
boss are
assembled with the masses in Vatican Square when Ole says; “This
will
never work. I can’t catch the Pope’s eye among all these people.
Tell
you what, I know the guards so let me just go upstairs and I’ll
come
out on the balcony with the Pope.”

 And he disappears into
the crowd headed toward the Vatican. Fifteen
minutes later Ole emerges
with the Pope on the balcony.

By the time Ole returns,  his
boss has had a heart attack and is
surrounded by
paramedics.

 Working his way to his boss’s side, Ole asks him, “What
happened?”

His boss looks up and says, “I was doing fine until
you and the Pope
came out on the balcony and the Japanese tourist next to
me asked,

 ’Who was that on the balcony with Ole?’