It was Ali Baba and the 40 thieves. How come there are only 30 now? “I had to
downsize,” Mr Baba told The Economic Times. “There’s a recession
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Two men visit an Egyptian museum and stare at a mummy.
“Look so many bandages, pukka accident case, I am sure,” says one of them.
“Look it says BC 1760,” says his friend.
“That’s the lorry’s number.”
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An executive visits his Chinese friend in hospital. “Chin yu yan, chin yu yan!” says the sick man who then dies. Later he’s in Shanghai on business and learns the meaning of chin yu yan: Get off my oxygen tube.
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He’d spent many years in meditation up in the Himalayas. He’d received many visitors from far and wide who had all made many offerings in cash and kind. Now the time had come. “I must give up all worldly affairs,” said the sage. “I wish to retire... and settle down in Las Vegas.”
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An Indian Army general was sent to Africa to work for UN forces. He loved to give long speeches to the men there, but a local major had to translate everything he said into Swahili. One harrowing day, after he found the men in the mess very exhausted, the general rattled off a long joke from his old days.
The African major promptly began his translation, but by the time he uttered three sentences, the entire audience burst out laughing. The general walked out, satisfied indeed. An Indian major, also there, was greatly impressed. “You translated it so quickly,” he told the African, “I’d like to learn Swahili.”
“No,” replied the African. “These guys would never have understood that Indian joke. Even I didn’t. So all I said was ‘He’s a three-star general. He just told a joke. All of you guys start laughing.’”
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