test-tickles

On the subject of laughter, Eric and Julie were discussing tickling. Julie had never heard of tickles to test something, so Eric relayed the following story:

This woman gets hired as a temp worker just before Christmas for a toy company making tickle-me-Elmos (remember when those were selling like hotcakes). She gets put at the end of the production line. Finished Elmos are slowly coming down the conveyor belt, and the boss says to her that she should give each Elmo two test-tickles to make sure he's complete and in working order. He then rushes off to fix another part of the production line. He returns at the end of the day, surprised to find a pair of testicles sown onto each doll in a huge pile of anatomically-correct Elmos. Furious at the new worker who has just ruined the day's work, he demands to know what she is up to. Confused, she says that she was doing what he asked and gave each Elmo two testicles. He says, "No! Two test tickles, not two testicles!"