Is 'Kenneth Way' Real?

I usually don't pay much attention to jokes sent to me on email. Most of the time, people are just forwarding old cracks, and I rarely amuse myself dragging tons of spam and bulk emails to my computer's waste bin.

However, one such email caught my attention today: A scan of an alleged job application submitted to the American chain of department stores, Wal-Mart. The applicant is the 75-year-old Kenneth Way from California, but is he real?

His application is quite something, but not something that usually would pay off. See for yourself (click on the image to see a larger and more readable version):

I googled Kenneth Way, and several blog posts reproducing the same email appeared in the search results. Some of them are posted back in January 2007, making the joke close to two years old.

Nothing about a real 'Kenneth Way'. Though a similar job application submitted to McDonald's by a 'Greg Bulmash' turned up.

So I snoped it instead and got the expected answer:

Kenneth Way is a hoax, but Greg Bulmash is real.

The original 'job application' is dated April 10, 1997 and is a humorous reaction to Greg's own unsuccessful job hunt 11 years ago.

Now, the joke is not even funny anymore. Why? Because it's not a real job application.

What made it funny the first time was the illusion that a gnarly old man from California had applied for a job at Wal-Mart with those ridiculous answers, and got it!

I've stopped laughing, and the worst part is that I once again had to drag yet another unfunny email joke to the waste bin.