| Walking through Chinatown, a tourist is fascinated with all the Chinese restaurants, shops, signs and banners. He turns a corner and sees a building with the sign, "Hans Olaffsen's Laundry." "Hans Olaffsen?", he muses. "How the heck does that fit in here?" So he walks into the shop and sees an old Chinese gentleman behind the counter. The tourist asks, "How did this place get a name like "Hans Olaffsen's Laundry?" The old man answers, "Is name of owner." The tourist asks, "Well, who and where is the owner?" "Me, is right here," replies the old man. "You? How did you ever get a name like Hans Olaffsen?" "Is simple," says the old man. "Many, many year ago when come to this country, was stand in line at Documentation Center. Man in front was big blonde Swede. Lady look at him and go, "What your name?" He say, "Hans Olaffsen." Then she look at me and go, 'What your name?'" "I say, Sem Ting." |
A TEXAN FARMER IN AUSTRALIA A Texan farmer
goes to Australia for a vacation. There he meets an Aussie farmer and gets
talking. The Aussie shows off his big wheat field and the Texan says, "Oh!
We have wheat fields that are at least twice as large." Then they walk
around the ranch a little, and the Aussie shows off his herd of cattle. The
Texan immediately says, "We have longhorns that are at least twice as large
as your cows." The conversation has, meanwhile, almost died when the Texan
sees a herd of kangaroos hopping through the field. He asks, "And what are
those?" The Aussie replies with an incredulous look, "Don't you have
any grasshoppers in Texas?"
And lastly, a story of the great ingenuity of two ambitious boys: A police
officer had a perfect hiding place for watching for speeders. But one day,
everyone was under the speed limit, the officer found the problem: a 10 year old
boy was standing on the side of the road with a huge hand painted sign which
said "RADAR TRAP AHEAD." A little more investigative work led the
officer to the boy's accomplice, another boy about 100 yards beyond the radar
trap with a sign reading "TIPS" and a bucket at his feet, full of
change.
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