A Mathematician's son tries out for his high school's varsity basketball team.... The son comes home from the first day of tryouts. The father notices that the son is stressed and discouraged. The son marches straight to his room with his head down, without saying a word to any of his family members. The father decides to leave the son alone for a while. A few hours later, the son is still in his bedroom. The father decides to go figure out what's wrong. He walks into the son's bedroom to find h…

Ling and Ving move to America Once upon a time, a little Asian family moved into America. It was a father and his two children, his daughter Ling and son Ving. They were quite unadjusted to the American lifestyle, but eventually they settled in. One day, Ving told Ling that he didn't like his name anymore because it was weird and he got bullied for it. He wanted to change it to 'Lee' like Bruce Lee. But his sister told him that he can't do it for it'd be blasphemous to his father and his entire …

A cattle farmer had three sons... Mark, Jakob, and David. Mark and Jakob weren't much for farm life. Mark took off at 16 for the city, and didn't come back. Jakob waited until he completed college, whenceforth he became a businessman and lawyer. David, however, stayed with his father on the farm his whole life to continue raising cattle. Eventually the farmer grew old and ill. On his death bed, he had managed to call for all his sons to come see him in the hospital. Mark wanted nothing of the fa…

A grade school teacher was asking students... ...what their parents did for a living. Timmy stood up and said, "My mom is a doctor!" Sarah stood up and said, "My father is a professor!" Little Johnny stood up and said, "My dad is a professional con artist!" The teacher couldn't believe what she had just heard, so she made a point of calling Little Johnny's father that evening to discuss the situation. Little Johnny's father explained, "Actually, I'm a law attorney, but how am I supposed to…