1. During a religious meeting an attractive young widow leaned too far over the balcony and fell, but her dress caught on a chandelier and held her impended in mid-air. The preacher, of course, immediately noticed the woman’s predicament and called out to his congregation: The first person who looks up there is in danger of being punished with blindness.
Mulla Nasrudin, who was in the congregation whispered to the man next to him, I Think I will Risk one Eye.
2. Mulla Nasrudin was testifying in Court. He noticed that everything he was being taken down by the court reporter. As he went along, he began talking faster and still faster. Finally, the reporter was frantic to keep up with him.
Suddenly, the Mulla said, Good Gracious, Mister, don’t write so fast, I can’t keep up with you!
3. What’s the idea, asked the boss of his new employee, Mulla Nasrudin, of telling me you had five years’ experience, when now I find you never had a job before?
Well, said Nasrudin, didn’t you advertise for a man with imagination?
4. Mulla Nasrudin’s servant rushed into the room and cried, Hurry your husband is lying unconscious in the hall beside a large round box with a piece of paper clutched in his hand.
How Exciting, said Mulla Nasrudin’s wife, My Fur Coat Has Come.
5. Mulla Nasrudin trying to pull his car out of a parking space banged into the car ahead. Then he backed into the car behind. Finally, after pulling into the street, he hit a beer truck. When the police arrived, the patrolman said, Let’s see your licence, Sir. Don’t be silly, said Nasrudin. who do you think would give me a licence?
6. What’s the idea of coming in here late every morning, Mulla? asked the boss.
It’s Your fault, Sir Said Mulla Nasrudin. You have Trained me so Thoroughly not to watch the Clock in the office, Now I am in the Habit of not looking at it Home.
7. Applicants for a job on a dam had to take a written examination, the first question of which was,What does hydrodynamics mean?
Mulla Nasrudin, one of the applicants for the job, looked at this, then wrote against it: it means I Don’t get job.
8. The boss was asked to write a reference for Mulla Nasrudin whom he was dismissing after only oneweek’s work. He would not lie, and he did not want to hurt the Mulla unnecessarily. So he wrote: to whom it may concern: mulla nasrudin worked for us for one week, and We are satisfied.
9. A rich widow had lost all her money in a business deal and was flat broke. She told her lover, MullaNasrudin, about it and asked, Dear, in spite of the fact that I am not rich any more will you still love me?
Certainly, Honey, said Nasrudin, i will. Love you always – even though i will probably never see you again.
10. A patent medicine salesman at the fair was shouting his claims for his Rejuvenation Elixir. If you don’t believe the label, just look at me, he shouted. I take it and I am 300 years old.
Is he really that old? asked a farmer of the salesman’s young assistant, Mulla Nasrudin.
I really don’t know, Said Nasrudin. you see, i have only been with him for 180 years.
11. Mulla Nasrudin complained to the health department about his brothers.
I have got six brothers, he said. We all live in one room. They have too many pets. One has twelve monkeys and another has twelve dogs. There’s no air in the room and it’s terrible! You have got to do something about it.
Have you got windows? asked the man at the health department.
Yes, said the Mulla.
Why don’t you open them? he suggested.
What? Yelled nasrudin, and lose all my pigeons?
12. Mulla Nasrudin had just asked his newest girlfriend to marry him. But she seemed undecided.
If I should say no to you she said, would you commit suicide?
That, said Nasrudin gallantly, has been my usual procedure.
13. The young lady had said she would marry him, and Mulla Nasrudin was holding her tenderly. I wonder what your folks will think, he said. Do they know that I write poetry?
Not yet, Honey, she said. i have told them about your drinking and gambling, but i thought i’d better not tell them everything at once.
14. Mulla Nasrudin was looking over greeting cards.
The salesman said, Here’s a nice one – to the only girl i ever loved.
wonderful, said Nasrudin. i will take six.
15. Well, Nasrudin, my boy, said his uncle, my congratulations! I hear you are engaged to one of the pretty Noyes twins.
Rather! replied Mulla Nasrudin, heartily.
But, said his uncle, how on earth do you manage to tell them apart?
Oh, said Nasrudin. I Dont Try!
16. And are mine the only lips, Mulla, you have kissed? asked she.
Yes, said Nasrudin, and they are the sweetest of all.
17. There just is not any justice in this world, said Mulla Nasrudin to a friend. I used to be a 97-pound weakling, and whenever I went to the beach with my girl, this big 197-pound bully came over and kicked sand in my face. I decided to do something about it, so I took a weight-lifting course and after a while I weighed 197 pounds.
So what happened? his friend asked.
Well, after that, said Nasrudin, whenever i went to the beach with my girl, a 257-pound bully kicked sand in my face.
18. Dorothy, your boyfriend, Mulla Nasrudin, seems very bashful, said Mama to her daughter.
Bashful! echoed the daughter, bashful is no name for it.
Why don’t you encourage him a little more? Some men have to be taught how to do their courting.He’s a good catch.
Encourage him! said the daughter, he cannot take the most palpable hint. Why, only last night when I sat all alone on the sofa, he perched up in a chair as far away as he could get. I asked him if he didn’t think it strange that a man’s arm and a woman’s waist seemed always to be the same length, and what do you think he did?
Why, just what any sensible man would have done – tried it.
NO, said the daughter. He asked me if i could find a piece of string so we could measure and see if it was so.
19. Mulla Nasrudin, visiting India, was told he should by all means go on a tiger hunt before returning to his country.
It’s easy, he was assured. You simply tie a bleating goat in a thicket as night comes on. The cries of the animal will attract a tiger. You are up in a nearby tree. When the tiger arrives, aim your gun between his eyes and blast away.
When the Mulla returned from the hunt he was asked how he made out. No luck at all, said Nasrudin.
Those tigers are altogether too clever for me. They Travel in Pairs, and Each one closes an eye. So, of course, I Missed them every time.
20. An artist was hunting a spot where he could spend a week or two and do some work in peace andquiet. He had stopped at the village tavern and was talking to one of the customers, Mulla Nasrudin, about staying at his farm.
I think I’d like to stay up at your farm, the artist said, provided there is some good scenery. Is there very much to see up there?
I am afraid not said Nasrudin. of course, if you look out the front door you can See the barn across the road, but if you look out the back door, you can’t See anything but mountains for the next forty miles.
21. Mulla Nasrudin and his wife were sitting on a bench in the park one evening just at dusk. Without knowing that they were close by, a young man and his girl friend sat down at a bench on the other side of a hedge.
Almost immediately, the young man began to talk in the most loving manner imaginable.
He does not know we are sitting here, Mulla Nasrudin’s wife whispered to her husband. It sounds like he is going to propose to her. I think you should cough or something and warn him.
Why should I warn him? asked Nasrudin. Nobody warned me.
