WEBSIDE HUMOUR
 Tit for tat

A very shy young man goes into a bar and sees a beautiful woman sitting alone. After an hour he gathers enough courage to go and ask her, "Er... Excuse me, but would you mind if I sat here beside you?" She responds in a very loud voice: " No, I don’t want to spend the night with you!" Everyone in the bar turns to stare at them.

The young man is surprised, shocked and embarrassed and goes back to his table. After a few minutes the woman walks over to him smiles, apologises, and says, "You see, I’m a graduate student in psychology and I’m studying how people respond to embarrassing situations." The young man responds loudly: "What do you mean five thousand rupees. That’s too much!"

An old blacksmith realised he needed a helping hand. He picked out a strong young man to become his apprentice. The old fellow was crabby and exacting.

"Don’t ask me a lot of questions," he told the boy. "Just do whatever I tell you to do."

One day the old blacksmith took an iron out of the forge and laid it on the anvil.

"Get the hammer over there," he said. "When I nod my head, hit it real good and hard." Soon the town was looking for a new blacksmith.

A woman goes to see a fortune-teller.

"Two men are in love with me," she says. "Who will be the lucky one?"

The swami answers, "Nimesh will marry you. Akshay will be the lucky one."

Compiled by Sunil Sharma