The Jewish Samurai [Long] The Emperor of Japan loses his most trusted bodyguard, and sends out a proclamation to the whole empire: Bring forth the best samurai to show their skills, so that they may guard my life. Three samurai enter the throne room: A samurai from Edo, A samurai from osaka, and a jew. The first samurai bows to the emperor, then opens up a matchbox. A single fly comes out, and flies up. The samurai swings his sword once, and the fly drops dead in two pieces. The emperor is impre

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So there's a little guy sitting at a bar....(heard this years ago, hope it isn't a repost) ...when a much larger, muscular guy walks in who seems to have a chip on his shoulder. The big guy sits down next to the little guy and orders a beer, after a bit the big guy jumps up and completely out of nowhere punches the little guy, knocking him to the floor. ""That's boxing, from Las Vegas."" The little guy picks himself up off the floor, dusts himself off, gets back on his stool and just quietly goe

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Tommy Cooper joke via David Sylvian out of Japan [From Guardian interview with David Sylvian](http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/mar/08/david-sylvian-gentlemen-polaroids-viagra?intcmp=ILCMUSTXT9387): > I like the old Tommy Cooper joke, the one that goes: Guy walks into a pet shop and says, ""I'd like to buy a wasp."" And the shop owner says, ""I'm sorry sir, but we don't carry wasps."" ""Well that's funny, there's one in the window.""

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The Rabbi's Blessing A rabbi was walking down the street when, suddenly, a strong gust of wind blew his shtreimel (fur hat) off his head. The rabbi ran after his hat but the wind was so strong it kept blowing his hat farther and farther away. He just couldn't catch up with it. A young gentile man, witnessing this event and being more fit than the rabbi, ran after the hat and caught it. The young gentile man handed the hat over to the rabbi. The rabbi was so pleased and grateful that he gave the

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Stevie Wonder is playing in Japan for the first time ever... Sitting at the piano in a concert hall, keen to please his new audience, Stevie shouts ""Before I start, does anyone have any requests?"" Some little old Japanese man at the very back of the hall stands up and shouts back ""Do a jazz chord!"" So Stevie obliges, playing an Eb Minor diminished seventh, with some arpeggios up and down the keyboard. The crowd starts applauding and cheering Stevie. He shouts ""Does anyone else have a reques

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An English businessman... An English businessman is in Japan for an important contract. Feeling stressed out, he goes to a brothel and finds a cute, young girl. Although shy at first, soon she starts moaning and panting, and keeps on screaming ""Soko janai! Soko janai!"". While he couldn't speak or understand Japanese, the man is glad to know that he managed to please her so much. The next day, he strikes the deal, and is invited to play golf with his Japanese associates. On the hardest hole of

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Dad, is Santa real? There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Buddhist (except maybe in Japan) religions, this reduces the workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million (according to the population reference bureau). At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that comes to 108 million homes, presuming there is at least one good child in each. Santa has a

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