Jokes

The people from here love jokes. The TB coordinator we just spent three days with is especially funny and loves to tell jokes. One common kind of humor here is when you retell an exaggeration someone else told. So here are a few he told us.

So, there was once a village that had a watermelon patch. One of the watermelons kept growing and growing and growing, until it was so huge, that it outgrew the village. The villagers got a truck with a big knife, but they couldn't cut it off the stalk, so they brought in an airplane, with an even bigger knife, and were able to cut the watermelon off its stalk. Then they brought in 360 trucks, because they had used the big knife to cut the watermelon into 360 pieces, and each piece was so big that only one would fit on a truckbed. So that is how they were finally able to get rid of the watermelon that was bigger than the village.

There was also once a man who wanted to buy some rabbits. His friend told him that he shouldn't buy any rabbits, because rabbits multiply really quickly. The man said he would buy some anyway, and his friend said, "Well, I once knew a man that bought two rabbits. These rabbits multiplied so quickly that five weeks after he had bought them, anytime anyone walked through his yard, every time they took a step they killed TWENTY rabbits."