Arab Jokes

Many years ago, I read an article about Polish Jokes. There are many jokes in the English speaking world where the central character is a Pole, but this article was about the jokes that were then circulating among Poles.

Yesterday, Farook told me three jokes. So this is about three jokes now circulating among Arabs, and is presented for information only.

The first is a pun, which, I'm afraid, loses a lot (like most puns) in translation.

In Arabic, the word for 'watch' is the same as the word for 'hour:' ساعة

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An Internet café had the sign, 5 ساعة

So a customer came in and asked, 'Are they waterproof?'

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Farook's second joke was about a used car salesman who was not a Muslim. He'd been drinking, when he saw a police car, and wanted to convince the police that he was sober. 'How much you want for thish car?' he asked, in what he thought was his normal, sober, businessman mode. He was immediately placed in the prisoner's seat in the back of the Maria. The police turned the lights and siren on as they transported the used car salesman to jail.

'Be careful how you drive,' he warned, after noticing the lights and siren. 'There are shome police near ush.'

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Finally, an old man was on his deathbed, and he knew the end was near, so he called for all his sons to come and hear his last words.

'After I die, you must tell everyone I died of AIDS.'

'But Baba, why do you want us to say that?' his sons asked.

'So your mother won't marry anyone else after I'm gone.'