another boy, "My mother is a great orator. She can speak on any subject for hours." The other said, "That's nothing. My mother is such a great orator she can speak without any subject for hours. Nobody knows what she is speaking." A woman walked into the Missing Persons Bureau. "My husband disappeared last night," she reported. "We'll do our best to find him," the officers assured her. "Kindly give us a description of the man." "Well," she waited a little and then said, "he's about five feet tall, wears thick glasses, has a bald head, drinks a lot, has a red nose, has a high squeaky voice...." And then she stopped and thought for a moment, and said, "Oh, just forget the whole thing!" The professor was telling his 8 a.m. class, "I have found that the best way to start the day is to exercise for five minutes, take a deep breath of air and then finish with a cold shower. Then I feel rosy all over." A sleepy voice from the back of the room responded, "Tell us more about Rosy!"
visited a large department store to
buy his wife some nylon hose. Inadvertently he got caught in the mad rush of a counter where a bargain sale was going on. He soon found himself being pushed and stepped on by frantic women. He stood it as long as he could, then with head lowered and elbows out, he plowed through the crowd. "You there!" said a woman. "Can't you act like a gentleman?'' "Not anymore," said Nasrudin. "I have been acting like a gentleman for an hour. From now on I am acting like a lady." Paddy and Seamus are sitting in the pub, having a drink together. "A burglar got into my house at three o'clock this morning," says Paddy, "while I was on my way home from the pub." "Did he get anything?" asks Seamus. "He certainly did," says Paddy. "The poor guy is in the hospital. My wife, Maureen, thought it was me!" "I turned the way I signaled," said the lady, indignantly, after the crash. "I know it," retorted Mulla Nasrudin. "that's what fooled me." One day Mulla Nasrudin
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A tiny, fastidious woman came
at rush-hour and she upturned the whole grocery store. For hours she bothered and bored Nasruddin. Only after hours of struggle could he satisfy her; she finally purchased what she wanted and was satisfied. And then the woman said: 'Mulla, you may not be knowing, but when I came to your shop I had a very terrible headache -- and now it is absolutely gone.' Mulla Nasruddin said: 'Dear madam, don't be worried. Don't be worried! It has not gone. It has come to me.'