मुल्ला नसरुद्दीन के किस्से व हास्य-रहस्य

CHAPTER 1.
"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."
23.
"Did you know I am a hero?" said Mulla Nasrudin to his friends in the teahouse.
"How come you're a hero?" asked someone.
"Well, it was my girlfriend's birthday," said the Mulla, "and she said if I ever brought her a gift she
would just drop dead in sheer joy. So, I DIDN'T BUY HER ANY AND SAVED HER LIFE."
24.
Mulla Nasrudin finally spoke to his girlfriend's father about marrying his daughter.
"It's a mere formality, I know," said the Mulla, "but we thought you would be pleased if I asked."
"And where did you get the idea," her father asked, "that asking my consent to the marriage was a
mere formality?"
"NATURALLY, FROM YOUR WIFE, SIR," said Nasrudin.
25.
Mulla Nasrudin, a party to a suit, was obliged to return home before the jury had brought in its
verdict.
When the case was decided in Nasrudin's favour, his lawyer wired him: "RIGHT AND JUSTICE
WON."
To which the Mulla replied immediately: "APPEAL AT ONCE."
26.
Mulla Nasrudin had knocked down a woman pedes-trian, and the traffic cop on the corner began to
bawl him out, yelling, "You must be blind!"
202 (Jokes of Mulla Nasrudin) 10 Osho