Subject: What Happens When a Fly Falls Into a Cup of Coffee?
(An examination of curious national predilections.)
The Italian - throws the cup, breaks it, and walks away
in a fit of rage.
The German - carefully washes the cup, sterilizes it and makes a new cup of
coffee.
The Frenchman - takes out the fly, and drinks the coffee.
The Chinese - eats the fly and throws away the coffee.
The Russian - drinks the coffee with the fly in it, since
it was included with no extra charge.
The Israeli - sells the coffee to the Frenchman, sells the fly to the
Chinese, sells the cup to the Italian, drinks a cup of tea, and uses the
extra money to invent a device that prevents flies from falling into coffee.
The Palestinian - blames the Israeli for the fly falling into his coffee,
protests the act of aggression to the UN, takes a loan from the European
Union to buy a new cup of coffee, uses the money to purchase explosives, and
then blows up the coffee house where the Italian, the Frenchman, the
Chinese, the German and the Russian are all trying to explain to the Israeli
why he should give away his cup of tea to the Palestinian.
Topic: The Painful Truth (Read 611 times)