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Friday, July 09, 2010

JOTD

A fly falls into a cup of coffee and. . . The Italian -- throws the cup, breaks it, and walks away in a fit of rage. The German -- carefully washes the cup, sterilizes it and makes a new cup of coffee. The Frenchman -- takes out the fly, and drinks the coffee. The Chinese -- eats the fly and throws away the coffee. The Russian -- drinks the coffee with the fly, since it was extra with no charge. The Israeli -- sells the coffee to the Frenchman, sells the fly to the Chinese, sells the cup to the Italian, drinks a cup of tea, and uses the extra money to invent a device that prevents flies from falling into coffee. The Palestinian Arab -- blames the Israeli for the fly falling into his coffee, protests the act of aggression to the UN, takes a loan from the European Union to buy a new cup of coffee, uses the money to purchase explosives and then blows up the coffee house where the Italian, the Frenchman, the Chinese, the German and the Russian are all trying to explain to the Israeli that he should give away his cup of tea to the Palestinian Arab.

(via reader Raul)

4 comments:

  1. The funniest part is "...takes a loan from the European Union to buy a new cup of coffee".

    Why take out a loan when they have all that foreign aid? Surely somebody will buy the poor Palestinian a new cup of coffee.

    Largest Recipients of Humanitarian Aid per Capita, 2005

    (with populations exceeding one million)
    Entity Aid per capita (US$)
    Republic of Congo 362
    West Bank and Gaza 304
    Timor-Leste 189
    Nicaragua 144
    Serbia and Montenegro 140
    Jordan 115
    Macedonia 113
    Source: Calculations based on data from World Bank Development Indicators Data Base, 2005

    http://www.meforum.org/1926/does-foreign-aid-fuel-palestinian-violence

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  2. That is the best nationalities joke I have heard. Surpasses the old ones such as the following. Heaven: Japanese wife and American house. Hell: American wife and Japanese house. Heaven: English Policeman. Hell: German policeman. Heaven: French cook. Hell: English cook. Heaven: German engineer. Hell: French engineer. Heaven: Swiss accountant. Hell: Italian accountant. Heaven: Italian lover. Hell: Swiss lover.

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  3. I'm not even sure this is funny - it's too true.

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