A friend sent me this joke long ago, and the punch line never fails to bring a smile to my face. With apologies to my PM friends. :)

A man walked into a pet shop and noticed they had a large selection of monkeys. Just then another customer walked in and said to the shopkeeper, "I'd like a monkey that can program in C, please." The shopkeeper went to the back room and came back with a monkey and said "That'll be 5,000."

The customer gave the shopkeeper 5,000 and walked out with the monkey. The tourist walked over to the shopkeeper and said "That's a pricey monkey!"

The shopkeeper replied "Well it's not often that you find a monkey that can write bug-free code in C and gets paid in bananas."

"A programming monkey... what'll they think of next? Do you have any others like that one?", asked the tourist.

"Sure, we have a C++ monkey and he can write object-oriented code with the best of them. He even dabbles in Java and .Net, and he's a steal at 10,000.", said the shopkeeper.

The tourist, clearly shocked by the price, said "10,000? That's gotta be your most expensive animal."

The shopkeeper replied, "Not even close. We have one more monkey that's even more expensive, and he costs 50,000."

Sputtering, the tourist said "Holy crap! What the heck does a 50,000 monkey do for you?"

The shopkeeper scratched his head and matter-of-factly said "Well, I haven't actually seen him do anything, but he says he's a project manager".

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