As US tourists in Israel, a man and his wife were sitting outside a Bethlehem souvenir shop, waiting for fellow tourists. An Arab salesman approached them carrying belts. After an impassioned sales talk yielded no results, he asked where they were from.
'America,' the husband replied.
Looking at her dark hair and olive skin, the Arab responded, 'She's not from the States.'
'Yes, I am.' said the wife. He looked at her and asked, 'Is he your husband?'
'Yes,' she replied. Turning to the husband, he offered....
'I'll give you 100 camels for her.' The husband looked stunned, and there was a long silence.
Finally he replied,' She's not for sale.'
After the salesman left, the somewhat indignant wife asked her husband what took him so long to answer, to which the husband replied, 'I was trying to figure out how I'd get 100 camels back home.'
A man who was gloomy and desperate at England's current football situation decided to commit suicide. He planned to hang himself in his living room. At the very last moment, he decided upon wearing his full England kit as his last statement. A neighbor, catching sight of the impending incident, called the police.
On arrival, the police quickly removed the Jersey and dressed the man in stockings and suspenders. The man, totally confused asked why.
The policeman simply replied, "It's to avoid embarrassing your family."
And then there was this Swede pilot who was on a plane with two Norwegian pilots on a test flight.
All of a sudden, there was a snag in the engine and they had to bail themselves out. But the problem was that there were only two parachutes in the plane. The Swede seized one and said: “I am too precious to this world and mankind in general to lose my life.” And he jumped.
One Norwegian: “Now what?”
Second Norwegian: “We jump. The precious one just grabbed my back pack and jumped.”
'A challenging market' - a difficult market.
'A difficult market' - totally impossible.
'We see an up-turn later in the year' - it can't get any worse.
'We are working on improving our performance' - we've sacked the whole team.
'Left the company unexpectedly' - topped himself.
'Left to develop his career elsewhere' - we fired him.
'A well constructed and extremely versatile product' - no one understands it.
'Recent down-sizing of the sales force' - the buggers keep leaving.
'Doesn't suffer fools gladly' - complete idiot to work for.
'He has an active social life' - alcoholic
'A spectacular producer during the time he was with us' - now doing time at Wandsworth.
'Highly creative, with an endless supply of unorthodox ideas' -mad.
'Forthcoming changes in the regulatory environment' - Oh Christ, here we go again.
Two explorers are at their London club. One says to the other, ‘Did you hear about Old Chumley? On his last expedition to Africa he married a gorilla!’
‘Good God,’ says the other. ‘That’s a bit queer.’
‘Oh no,’ replies the first explorer. ‘It was a female gorilla.’
One evening after office, I drove my secretary home since her car would not start. I decided not to bother my wife, Jane, so did not mention it to her.
Later that night, I was driving out with Jane to eat when the I noticed a high-heeled shoe hidden under the passenger seat. Pointing to something out the passenger window to distract my wife, I picked up the shoe and tossed it out of my window.
We arrived at the restaurant a short time later, and were about to get out of the car when Jane asked, 'John, have you seen my other shoe?'