A man answers a newspaper help wanted ad for a sales position, and shows up for his interview on time, in a smart suit and highly polished shoes. He introduces himself to the sales manager with a noticeable, severe speech impediment, "Hullo thir, it'th uh plethure ta meedh you."
The sales manager, momentarily taken aback, regains his composure and asks the man, "You are aware that this is a direct sales position, dealing with the public?"
"Yeth thir," says the applicant.
"I don't quite know how to say this, but I notice you have a serious speech impediment. You don't feel that this would be a problem in a direct sales job?" asks the sales manager.
"Oh thir, I'b a gret salethman, I kin thell anathing an my thpeech hathn't thtood betweeng me an a thale yet," said the applicant. "Just gib me a tetht, any kine ob tetht to thee if I'm the kine ob thalethman you want here."
The sales manager considers this, and pulls a box of a gross of individually wrapped toothbrushes out of a cabinet in his office. He tells the applicant, "If you can sell all these toothbrushes, one to a customer, by the end of the day, you've got a job here, speech impediment or no."
"Oh thank you thir. I'll brove my abilitieth to you. You won'k regret thith," and out the door he goes with the box of toothbrushes.
Two hours later he's back with all the toothbrushes gone, replaced by $144 in singles.
The sales manager asks him if he sold them one to a customer. The applicant replies, "Thothe were your inthtructionth, thir."
"Well my good man, you've got a job! What a great feat of salesmanship. Welcome to the team. Just one thing...tell me how you did it."
The applicant says, "It wath eathy thir. I thet up a little table on the gorner wit a bowl ob chipth and a bowl ob dip. Ath people came by I thaid, 'Exthcuse me thir, exthcuse me madam, would you nike a chip? Hep youthelf to thome dip!' They woul tathte it and thay 'Ewww, thith tathtes like thit,' and I would thay, "It is thit. Would you like to buy a toothbruth?"
[i]This joke works better when you can hear it, but I kill with this one.[/i]