Humour

Nasreddin and the Professor
One day, a very brilliant professor visited a town where Nassreddin lived. The professor was very famous throughout the country for his knowledge about many things. Not like other citizens, Nasreddin doubted him and wanted to test him.
He met the professor and said,” Professor, I want to ask you a question.”
“Go ahead,” answered professor.
“We have to make a deal first. If you can not answer my question, you have to pay me 10 coins. Then you can ask me a question. And if I can not answer your question, I will pay you one coin,” explained Nasreddin.
The professor said quickly,” It is not fair!”
“Yes, it is quite fair because you are highly educated, know much of everything. While I am not educated and not a professor,” said Nasreddin.
The professor thought a while and finally he agreed.
Nasreddin smiled and said, ”What do you call an animal that has three legs?”
The professor thought for a quite long time while his right hand was rubbing his bald forehead. At last he quitted.
“I don’t know.I quit, Nasreddin,”
He gave Nasreddin 10 coins. Then he asked Nasreddin the same question, “Now, it is my turn. Nasreddin, what do you call an animal that has three legs?”
“I do not know either, professor.” Answered Nasreddin quickly, handing one coin to the professor. He put the rest into his pocket and went away.
Tomorrow is the Doomsday
One day several children came to Nasreddin and said, “Sir, your sheep is very fat and healthy. What do think if we slaughter it and have a party tomorrow?”
Nasreddin loved his sheep very much. He did not allow the children to slaughter the sheep. But he did not disappoint them also.
He said, “No, it is not fat enough to slaughter. Wait for some months and it will be very fat and delicious.”
The children did not want to go. One of them persuaded, “Sir, didn’t you hear that the day after tomorrow is the doomsday. And the sheep won’t get fatter anymore. It is no use to keep any sheep.”
Nasreddin was very annoyed with the children’s reason. He said, “All right, then. Tomorrow we go on a picnic and have a barbecue together.”
The children shouted happily. The next morning Nasreddin and the children went on a picnic. After walking for some distance, they came to a camping ground near a river. The children urged Nasreddin to slaughter his sheep. Then Nasreddin did what the children wanted.
Nasreddin said to the children, “I see your body is sweating and dirty. Why don’t you take a bath in the river and let me make a barbecue?”
The children agreed. They ;put off their clothes, and one by one they jumped into the river. While the children were taking a bath, Nasreddin took their clothes silently. He brought the clothes to the place where he made barbecue. He burnt the clothes to make fire for the barbecue. Several minutes later the children came.
“Where are our clothes?” asked one of them. Then the others also asked for their clothes.
“See here. The barbecue will be ready in a short time,” said Nasreddin.
The children look happy. They came to the barbecue closer. One of them said, “That seems delicious. But where are our clothes?”
“Oh, yeah. I have burnt them down hereto make the barbecue,” said Nasreddin.
“No, my mother will get angry with me,” said one of them. The other children also shouted in that way.
“Listen, children. I think you will not need them anymore. Don’t you remember you said that tomorrow is the Doomsday?”
Believing a Donkey
Nasreddin knew that most of his neighbors were kind-hearted except one lady. She liked borrowing things from others but always forgot to return them.
One day, the lady came to Nasreddin ‘s house. After greeting him, the woman said, “I have to carry a lot of things to the town this morning. I have neither rope to tie them up nor donkey to carry all the things. May I borrow yours? I will return to you this afternoon as soon as I finished using them.”
Nasreddin thought that she would also forget to return the rope and the donkey. So he answered, “I am sorry. I use the rope myself.”
“But I see it lying on the floor,” said the woman.
“Right, that’s the way I use it,” answered Nasreddin.
“How long will you use the rope in that way?”
“Till I want to lend it to someone,” said Nasreddin.
The woman was disappointed. But she asked Nasreddin further about his donkey.
She asked, “May I borrow your donkey?”
Nasreddin answered, “Sorry, I can not lend it to you either. My donkey is borrowed by my brother in law. If it were here, I would be very glad to lend you.”
“Really? Last night I saw it behind your house. Where is it now?” asked the woman.
“early in the morning, my brother in law brought It to the town,” answered Nasreddin. But in the same time his donkey brayed loudly from the backyard.
Angrily, the woman said, “Well, you tell me a lie. I can hear that the donkeyis in the backyard. I hear it braying. You should be ashamed of yourself, Nasreddin.”
Nasreddin was angry too. He shouted, “Shame on you. You believe the donkey better that me. That’s ridiculous.”