Fees
Max: “Are you a lawyer?
Fred: “Yes, I am.”
Max: “How much do you charge?”
Fred: “R4000 for four questions.”
Max: “Isn’t that terribly expensive?”
Fred: “Yes, it is. What’s your fourth question?”
Pygmy Hunter
A Hunter walking through the jungle found a huge dead elephant with a pigmy standing beside it.
Amazed, he asked: “Did you kill that?”
The pigmy said, “Yes.”
The hunter asked, “How could a little bloke like you kill a huge beast like that?”
“I killed it with my club.”
The astonished hunter asked, “How big is your club?”
The pigmy replied, “There’s about 60 of us.”
Boneless Chicken
The food in China can be a challenge for newcomers. One example is that chicken is often served “cleaver style,” leaving the meat and bones chopped up together, making it difficult to eat.
Years ago, I went with a group of newcomers to a nice hotel to eat some hamburgers and normal Western food. One lady in our group, Marie, wanted to eat chicken without needing to spit out the bones, so she ordered “boneless chicken.”
The waiter, whose English was quite good, could not imagine what Marie wanted. She was very insistent, saying, “I want boneless chicken. Chicken with no bones!”
After more confusion and more insisting, the waiter finally said he understood, wrote something down, and returned to the kitchen.
After about 15 minutes, our orders started coming out to the table. Marie’s food was the last to arrive, and when the poor waiter placed her dish in front of her, we all laughed out loud. It was a plate of fried eggs.
