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29 April, 2012 at 1:44 pm #17583
1. King Ozymandias of Assyria was running low on cash after years of war with the Hittites. His last great possession was the Star of the Euphrates, the most valuable diamond in the ancient world.
Desperate, he went to Croesus, the pawnbroker, to ask for a loan.
Croesus said, “I’ll give you 100,000 dinars for it.”
“But I paid a million dinars for it,” the King protested.
“Don’t you know who I am? I am the king!”Croesus replied, “When you wish to pawn a Star, makes no difference who you are.”
2. Evidence has been found that William Tell and his family were avid bowlers. Unfortunately, all the Swiss League records were destroyed in a fire, …and so we’ll never know for whom the Tells bowled.
3. A man rushed into a busy doctor’s surgery and shouted,“Doctor! I think I’m shrinking!” The doctor calmly responded,
“Now, settle down. You’ll just have to be a little patient.”
4. An Indian chief was feeling very sick, so he summoned the medicine man. After a brief examination, the medicine man took out a long, thin strip of elk rawhide and gave it to the chief, telling him to bite off, chew, and swallow one inch of the leather every day. After a month, the medicine man returned to see how the chief was feeling. The chief shrugged and said, “The thong is ended, but the malady lingers on.”
5. A famous Viking explorer returned home from a voyage and found his name missing from the town register. His wife insisted on complaining to the local civic official, who apologized profusely saying, “I must have taken Leif off my census.”
6. An Indian chief had three squaws. One slept on a deer skin, one slept on an elk skin, and the third slept on a hippopotamus skin. In time, all three became pregnant.The first, on the deer skin, had a baby boy. The second, on the elk skin, had a baby girl.
But the third, who slept on the hippopotamus skin, gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl.
Which only goes to prove that the squaw on the hippopotamus is equal to the sum of the squaws on the other two hides.
7. A sceptical anthropologist was cataloguing South American folk remedies with the assistance of a tribal elder who indicated that the leaves of a particular fern were a sure cure for any case of constipation. When the
anthropologist expressed his doubts, the elder assured him,
“Believe me, with fronds like these, you don’t need enemas.” -
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