Opportunities Today : April 2006 Issue

Laughter the Best Medicine

 

 

 

An Englishman (to an Indian milkman) : Explain how curd is prepared from milk?
Milkman : Milk sleeping at night, morning becoming tight.
 
Stephang : (to librarian) : Do you have that book on “Ethics and honesty”.
Librarian : Yes we had but somebody stole it.
 
Teacher : Define cigarette
Student : Cigarette is a roll of tobacco with fire at one end and a fool at the other end.
 
Teacher : Jack, what is the futures tense of the sentence “He commits theft”.
Jack (to teacher) : He will go to Jail
Teacher : (Tauntingly) : Very good, Now tell me the past tense of that same sentence.
Jack : Simple Sir, his father was a thief.
 
Daddy : John, how much do you expect to get in today's class test?
John : Dad, I submitted a complete blank answer paper but I expect to get 10 marks.
Daddy : How is that?
John : The teacher has promised a bonus of 10 marks for clean answer papers.
 
Teacher : Terry, where do you stay?
Terry : In my house
Teacher : Terry, where is your house?
Terry : In front of Jim's bakery
Teacher : Where is Jim's bakery?
Terry : In front of my house
Teacher : (much annoyingly) : But where do they both lie?
Terry : Simple Sir, in front of each other
 
Q : How much is 1 & 1?
Engineer : It's 2
Lawyer : It's 11
C.A : How much do you want?
 
Teacher : Mac did you draw the picture of the cow ?
Mac : Yes Sir, here it is
Teacher : I can see nothing on this page
Mac (surprisingly) : It was here only
Sir, I think it ran away after seeing your stick
 
Chemistry, Maths and a Physics teacher had gathered besides a lake, and were talking about the possible depth and density of the lake and it's water The math's teacher dived inside the lake in a bid to find the exact depth of the lake. After 15 minutes physics teacher dived inside the lake to find the overall density of the lake water. When after an hour none of the two teachers appeared on the surface, the chemistry teacher departed saying, I think both of them are soluble in water.
 
Breaking with custom, a woman decided to have a scotch and soda as a night cap. After drinking it, she went upstairs to kiss her small son goodnight. As she bent to kiss him, he said, “Mummy ! you are wearing Daddy's Perfume!”
“Who won the fight? “You or your missus?”
“She came crawling to me on her hands and knees”.
“Really ? what did she say?”
“Come out from under the bed, you coward!'
 
Prison visitor : “And what brought you to this place?”
Prisoner : “A cold in the head”
Visitor : “But how can that be ?”
Prisoner : I sneezed and woke up the night watchman”
 
A chap I know used to drink whisky and water which always made him drunk. He switched to brandy and water but that always made him drunk too. Then he changed to rum and water and that made him drunk. Now he's convinced that water is an intoxicant.
 
A man rushed into one of the carriages and said urgently, “Has anyone got any brandy?
A woman has fainted in the next carriage”.
One of the passengers produced it in a flash and the fellow grabbed it and took a good long swig. “Thanks” he said, handing the empty flash back. “It always upsets me to see a woman faint”.
 
Pa : “No, I won't buy a trumpet for you. You'd disturb me too much with it”.
Jack : “I wouldn't , pa, I'd only play it while you are asleep”.
“ I told the doctor today about my absent mindedness”.
“what did he say?”
Asked for his fee in advance”.
 
Teacher: “Even a fool could ask questions that a wise man cannot answer”
Pupil : “No wonder I did not pass that exam”.
 
Two drunks booked a twin bedded room at a small hotel. They staggered up to the room and switched off the light and both lay down on the same bed. After a while, the first drunk said, “I shay, I think there's someone lying on thish bed with me!”
“Yesh, and there's someone in my bed too !” said the second drunk.
“Well, lesh kick e'm out!” said the first drunk, and a terrific struggle ensued.
Finally, the first drunk said, “I got my fellow out !”
“I couldn't handle mine!” said the second drunk,
“he pushed me out on the floor!”
“Never mind,” said his pal, “you jesh come and sleep with me!”
 
“Buffaloes and cows is grazing in the field,” said the teacher, “correct the sentence”.
Ram : “Cows and Buffaloes is grazing in the field”.
Teacher : How ?
Ram : Ladies first.