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* * * A man with a toad on this head
enters the doctor's room. * * * A man cannot decide where to
go after his death - to heaven or to hell. The purgatory manager
shows him heaven first: all sit still and eat porridge, no talks,
no laughter. Then he shows the hell: all have fun, drinking wine,
women around, good music playing. * * * After a lifetime of hand-copying ancient texts, an elderly monk became abbot of his monastery. Realizing that for centuries his order had been making copies of copies, he decided to examine some of the monastery's original documents. * * * Why there are no devils guarding the pot with Latvians in the hell? – Because they will not themselves let anybody to get out. * * * Whatever is the discipline and the topic of scholarly research, the result is a weapon. * * * You can achieve much more with a pistol and a good word than just with a good word. * * * The Bible teaches us to love our closest. Kamasutra instructs us, how to do it. * * * A sponsor is a person, who feels it much more comfortable to get rid of money than to explain, how did he get it. * * * There are less and less people with good manners, who are not trying to sell you something. * * * It is unhealthy to smoke, disgusting - to drink, but it grieves to die in a good shape. * * * A friend's wife is always better than the wife's friend. * * * I am telling you to come tomorrow. But you keep on coming today. * * * Two snakes are slithering down
a pathway and one says to the other: "Hey, do you know if
we are poisonous?" * * * (There are four regions in Lithuania,
and here is a short characteristics of the inhabitants: Highlands
boastful, swaggering, Lowlands slow-minded, Suvalkija
thrifty, niggardly, and Dzukija poor, compassionate.) * * * Suvalkian has to take his urine for the analyses. He takes 3 l pot full of urine to the laboratory. When asked, why so much, he answers: "So that no one would think of me as of a niggard." On his way back home he has again the 3 l pot full of urine. When asked, why, he says: "They found some sugar in it." * * * Suvalkian makes a party, many guests are invited. First he serves sandwiches. After some time he asks: "Should I bring the turkey?" Guests think, that they are not yet ready for the main course and say "not yet." After some time the host asks again: "Should I bring the turkey?" Now guests are ready for the main course, and they say "yes". The host says to his wife: "Take the turkey in and let him eat the bread-crumbs!" * * * There is a subway in Tallinn. The voice of the driver: "Aaaaattentiiiiioooooon, the doooooor is cloooooosinnnnng! The neeeeext staaaaatiiiiiooooon ........ oh, the next station!" * * * A new breed Estonian greyhound. Good for hunting of wounded earth-worms and snails. * * * Hi, Toomas! I am not Toomas. Aren't you Toomas? We met some day. We have never met. How it comes we have never met? You were in Tallinn. No, I have never been in Tallinn. Well, I have never been in Talllinn, too. Well, you see! It was some other two men. * * * A tourist travels to Tallinn. He stops a horse-driven wagon with an old Estonian. "Is it far to Tallinn?" "No, not very far. I can take you into my wagon." After five hours of travelling the tourist asks: "Where is Tallinn? Is it far?" "Yes, now it is far." * * * Why has Estonia moved so far? There is not a single Latvian in the government there. * * * Are Hungarians the same as Estonians? Five thousand years ago they were the same. Then they moved from Siberia westwards, until they stopped at the crossroads. There was a pole with a road-sign, which read: "To the left South, sunny, warmth, wine, Hungary. To the right North, cold, wet, sea, pilchards, Estonia". Those who could read, are Hungarians now. * * * A Chukchee father before his
death gives advice to his son: "Give honour to your mother,
look after the reindeer and always defend Estonians."
"Why should I defend Estonians?" "When the
last Estonian dies, we shall be the most foolish people in the
world." * * * Three friends walk through a forest in Scandinavia; one from Denmark, other is from Sweden and the last fellow is from Finland. Suddenly, they come across an elephant in the forest. * * * Please, send me your best anecdotes: mukti@latnet.lv |